What’s On 2015-16 a guide to events at Royal Holloway Welcome
I am delighted to introduce our programme of events at Royal Holloway for the year 2015-2016. Royal Holloway is one of the UK’s leading research intensive universities, founded by two Victorian social pioneers who understood the importance of education and knowledge, and who were inspired to bring those benefits to everyone. Today the College is a community that continues to be inspired by the egalitarian spirit of our founders; we are passionate about the personal and social values that come from education and knowledge. The College is a powerful force in the region, building partnerships with the business community and playing a major role in economic success. We are proud of the contribution we make to the cultural and social life of our community, by providing a wide range of events that cover the arts and humanities, science and social sciences. The new academic year sees the School of Law welcoming our first cohort of students on the LLB qualifying law degree, as well as our MSc in Forensic Psychology. Building on existing strength in criminology, social policy, sociology and forensic psychology, the new School of Law is home to a multidisciplinary team of research-active academics. On 29 February, the lecture on the 'Good Prison' Redefined – the Mandela Rules by Nick Hardwick, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons, will launch the School of Law. You are warmly invited to this event. Our impressive keynote lecture series provides an opportunity to hear directly from outstanding speakers, both internal and external. I would particularly like to draw your attention to the ‘Philanthropy Changing Lives’ lecture which is being organised in co-operation with the Community Foundation for Surrey. The talk will give an insight into how modern-day philanthropists are working with local charities and community groups to change the prospects of children and young people through education and learning.
Other highlights include: the Fawcett Lecture by Dame Jenni Murray, journalist and broadcaster (BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour) which will be held on 7 March at Senate House in London; Sarah Fox and the Choir of Royal Holloway concert, and the two concerts of the Royal Holloway Chamber Orchestra with the London Mozart Players. I would like to invite you to be part of our community by attending our extensive programme of events and sharing in the life of the College. I look forward to welcoming you here. Professor Paul Layzell Principal
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Dame Jenni Murray DBE Sarah Fox and the James Kirby Fawcett Lecture Choir of Royal Holloway Piano Monday 7 March Tuesday 15 March Friday 19 February For full details see page 20 For full details see page 20 For full details see page 18
Philanthropy Changing Lives: Art talks Nick Hardwick – The ‘good prison’ redefined – The Mandela Rules education, training and skills Tuesday 20 October, Wednesday 4 November, Thursday 25 February Wednesday 18 November, Tuesday 8 December Monday 29 February For full details see page 19 For full details see page 27 For full details see page 19
3 Open Days 2015/16 for prospective students Saturday 24 October 2015 • Wednesday 15 June 2016 • Saturday 18 June 2016 • Saturday 1 October 2016
An Open Day at Royal Holloway will offer prospective students an informative, interactive and personalised experience of our university through talks, tours and in ‘zones’ around campus. Not only will you have the opportunity to hear about our departments from a leading academic in their field, or gain advice on what makes a good UCAS application, you'll also have a more 'hands-on' experience of our student life in specific ‘zones’ including those dedicated to sports clubs, student societies, study abroad opportunities and support services. Best of all you will have the freedom and flexibility to attend a talk, explore activities in the zones and take a campus or accommodation tour in your own time. For further information and to book, please visit royalholloway.ac.uk/opendays
"I loved the atmosphere and how helpful the staff and students were… and “I loved everything, hearing about the courses it was absolutely was inspirational”. amazing”. 2014 Open Day visitor 2015 Open Day visitor
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Members of the public, students and staff are welcome to attend all events. For more information on concerts and lunchtime recitals please contact: Accompanied children are also welcome and are free of charge at most events. Concert Office Department of Music, [email protected] Where a charge applies, this is shown under the entry in this brochure, along royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events with details of how to book. Season ticket for the Department of Music Concerts How to book A season ticket from the Department of Music provides free admission for Refer to the key at the top of pages 6-7 for the type of event. one person to most evening performances (exceptions being the St Cecilia’s Evening and the Sarah Fox and Choir of Royal Holloway Concert). A season Lectures ticket costs £60 which represents an excellent saving on full-price tickets. Admission to all lectures is free unless specified otherwise, however Please contact the Concert Office (details above). pre-registration is essential to help us manage numbers. Please register on our website royalholloway.ac.uk/events To book for the St Cecilia’s Evening and the Sarah Fox and All lectures are followed by a reception at a venue to be announced at the event. Choir of Royal Holloway Concert see page 31. Doors open 15 minutes before lectures. To book for Choral Concerts Recitals and Concerts Please contact the Choral Office on 01784 414970 or book online at chapelchoir.co.uk Tickets are only available on the door from half an hour before start of performance and cannot be pre-booked. Please arrive early to avoid The Windsor Building Auditorium is fitted with facilities for the hard of hearing. disappointment. Doors open 30 minutes before concerts. Wine and soft drinks Concessions (where applicable) apply to senior citizens, staff and Royal Holloway are on sale during the interval. students.Details are correct at the time of going to press, but additions, changes or cancellations to the programme may occur. The stated time of the end of an event is Special events approximate. Please check our website for updates. Some events have alternative booking arrangements. These are specified under the relevant entries. Directions and car parking Find out how we're celebrating inspiring women If you are driving to campus for an organised event at any time, please park in this year at: royalholloway.ac.uk/womeninspire one of the designated car parks: 1E, 1W, 4 or 12. Please see page 28 for a map and more information. For more information on lectures, local, family and community events and tours Term dates 2015–16 of the College please contact: Autumn term: Monday 21 September to Friday 11 December 2015 Events Office Winter Graduation ceremonies: 15-17 December 2015 Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX Spring term: Monday 11 January to Thursday 24 March 2016 01784 443004 / [email protected] Summer term: Monday 25 April to Friday 10 June 2016 royalholloway.ac.uk/events Summer Graduation ceremonies: 11-15 July 2016
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October 2015 Page 21 Nov St Cecilia’s Evening 12 13 Oct Psychology mini lectures 8 23 Nov Seductions of Tradition: a lecture- performance with puppets 12 22 Oct Quantum electronics: electricity at the nanoscale 8 24 Nov The business of Business Ethics 28 Oct London Mozart Players side by side with and the ethics of business 13 Royal Holloway Chamber Orchestra 8 25 Nov Royal Holloway Chorus 13 November 2015 Page 26 Nov Going to the ends of the Earth as a woman in Science 13 2 Nov Rise of the Social Amoeba – using simple cells to find medically important genes in humans 9 December 2015 Page 4 Nov Chess at 200mph: the game of Formula 1 strategy 9 2 Dec Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra 14 11 Nov From ‘Lives at the Limit’: histories against the grain – an unfinished dialogue with David 9 3 Dec The relationship of Neanderthals 10-12 Nov Mozartfest 10 and Homo sapiens 14 10 Nov Orchestral Masterclass 10 5 Dec Lessons and Carols service 15 11 Nov The Tippett Quartet side by side concert 10 9 Dec Choir of Royal Holloway at Christmas with the Bristol Ensemble 15 11 Nov Village Sons Remembered - An evening of Commemoration and Celebration 10 10 Dec Lessons and Carols service 15 12 Nov Mozart: The Prodigy 10 10 Dec A Tunnel to the Beginning of Time: experimental physics at the LHC 8 12 Nov Gun Baby Gun: a bloody journey into the world of the gun 10 January 2016 Page 16 Nov How is Antarctica changing and why should we care? 11 9 Jan Out of the Ice Ages: our past, present and future 15 19 Nov The Tippett Quartet Recital 11 17 Jan Matthew Stanley, Piano 15 6 At a glance Concerts Lectures Recitals Family and community events
26 Jan Liberation and after - legacies of the March 2016 Page Nazi concentration camps 16 3 Mar The Jews and the First Crusade: 26-28 Jan The Beethoven Project 16 conversion and martyrdom 20 26 Jan The Tippett Quartet 16 5 Mar Royal Holloway Science Open Day 20 27 Jan London Mozart Players side by side with 7 Mar Fawcett Lecture 20 Royal Holloway Chamber Orchestra 16 8 Mar The Elephant in the Room: 28 Jan Beethoven in chamber music and song 17 literature in an interdisciplinary academy 21 12-24 Mar Runnymede Literary Festival 21 February 2016 Page 15 Mar Sarah Fox and the Choir of Royal Holloway 22 2 Feb Notes from a mud hut in Deutsche Bank: 16 Mar Masterclass with Sarah Fox 22 anthropology and the changing concept of 16 Mar Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra 22 culture in international business 17 17 Mar Learning in the cerebellum: 8 Feb What is progress? How are we doing, an ‘autopilot’ system in the human brain 23 and where next? 17 18 Mar CHROMA 23 10 Feb Royal Holloway Sinfonietta 17 21 Mar The art and ethics of discretion 24 11 Feb Who am I? The embodied foundation of the self 18 22 Mar The Gennadius Library in Athens: 19 Feb James Kirby, Piano 18 the vision of a Greek of the Diaspora 24 23 Feb Faith in international relations 18 24 Feb Royal Holloway Chorus 19 September 2016 Page 25 Feb Philanthropy Changing Lives: education, 11 Sep Heritage Open Day 25 training and skills 19 29 Feb The ‘good prison’ redefined – The Mandela Rules 19 7 October Concerts Lectures Recitals Family and community events HOW TO BOOK, SEE PAGE 5
Psychology mini lectures A Tunnel to the Beginning of Time: Tuesday 13 October experimental physics at the LHC Windsor Building Auditorium, 6-7pm Thursday 10 December A series of mini lectures by academic staff in the Department of Psychology Windsor Auditorium, 6.30pm will provide a glimpse into the issues tackled in psychology. Interactive Dr Veronique Boisvert psychology exhibits will also be running in the Windsor Building Foyer Last spring, the Large Hadron Collider resumed its before the talks, from around 5.30pm. operations at CERN in Switzerland. The particle collisions now involve energies Free never before achieved in the laboratory and may shed light on new fundamental Schools Lecture particles and potentially revolutionise our concept of space-time! In this lecture, Dr Boisvert will review some significant discoveries already made by the ATLAS Quantum Electronics: detector (including the famous Higgs particle) and explain what we might expect to learn from the new data being produced at the world’s largest experiment. electricity at the nanoscale Free Thursday 22 October Book at royalholloway.ac.uk/physicslectures Windsor Auditorium, 6.30pm Schools Lecture Dr John Quilter Electricity is simply the movement of electrons in a London Mozart Players side by side with circuit, a well-understood phenomenon. Researchers Royal Holloway Chamber Orchestra at Royal Holloway, however, are pushing the technological frontiers, looking for new electron interactions that may form the basis of new and exciting electronic Wednesday 28 October devices. Come and listen to Dr John Quilter explain this cutting edge research in Windsor Building Auditorium, 8pm the first of this year’s series of Physics lectures. Rebecca Miller, conductor Free Mozart: Paris Symphony Book at royalholloway.ac.uk/physicslectures Beethoven: Symphony No 1 Schools Lecture The College is excited to continue its relationship with one of the UK’s foremost chamber orchestras, the London Mozart Players. The programme, the first of several this year, will feature music of Mozart, to tie in with the autumn ‘MozartFest’, and Beethoven to launch ‘The Beethoven Project’ – a groundbreaking multi-year and interdisciplinary exploration of the great man’s extraordinary musical and extra-musical contributions to the world. £10 (£8 senior citizens, £5 staff, free to Royal Holloway students and alumni) 8 November Concerts Lectures Recitals Family and community events HOW TO BOOK, SEE PAGE 5
Rise of the Social Amoeba – using simple cells to find Since 2008, Gareth has run SBG Sports Software, developing software for data visualisation and analysis in several elite sports - most notably in Formula One medically important genes in humans where the company develops the race strategy software for the current World Monday 2 November Championship winning team, and the incident analysis and race management Boilerhouse Auditorium, 6.15pm software for Formula One race control. His talk will cover the various fields he has worked in and will then concentrate on a discussion of some of the Professor Robin Williams mathematical techniques behind race strategy in Formula 1. School of Biological Sciences Free In medicine today, the development of new treatment is often difficult since we do not understand how many medicinal drugs work. Our research uses a simple Coulter McDowell Lecture cell, the social amoeba Dictyostelium, to define genes and proteins that are affected by currently used drugs and natural products (such as flavonoids). From ‘Lives at the Limit’: histories This lecture will introduce the amoeba, and its life cycle, and explain how we against the grain – an unfinished can use it to understand how drugs work to treat human disease. dialogue with David Free Tuesday 10 November Jack Pridham Lecture Picture Gallery, 6pm Chess at 200mph: the game of Professor Helen Graham Department of History Formula 1 strategy I came to explore the wreck. Paul Klee: Angelus Novus (1920) Wednesday 4 November The words are purposes. Helen Graham discusses her forthcoming The words are maps. Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm book Lives at the Limit. Its subject is Europe’s I came to see the damage Gareth Griffiths dark 20th century, explored through a set of that was done Feature film and major sports software specialist and signal lives which pass through the war in Spain and the treasures that prevail Media Arts alumnus (1936-39) and are transformed by it. The book’s (Adrienne Rich, 1973) Gareth's specialist software products have been used in over 500 feature themes of displacement and difference allow films including consecutive visual effects Oscar winners for over a decade a reflection on how history can be other than from Jurassic Park to The Lord of the Rings trilogy. His products continue a homogenising discourse or instrument of state or nation. By excavating real to be seen daily producing the maps used on most news broadcasts around lives to reveal their own – and the century’s – complexity and multiplicity, history the world. They have also won two Queen's Awards for Export Achievement counters retrospective ideological tellings which shut down the past. and Innovation. Free David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture 9 November Concerts Lectures Recitals Family and community events HOW TO BOOK, SEE PAGE 5
Mozartfest Village Sons Remembered – An evening 10-12 November of Commemoration and Celebration Reflecting the association with the London Mozart Players, the autumn Wednesday 11 November mini-festival theme this year is ‘Mozart’ Chapel, 6.30pm Orchestral Masterclass A fundraiser for a community- led project to give dignity, identity and a legacy to Tuesday 10 November the war dead of Englefield Green. The evening of music, prayers and poems will Boilerhouse Auditorium, 7pm start in the Chapel and will be followed by drinks and canapés in the Picture Gallery. As part of their exciting residency at Royal Holloway, members of the London £15 adults, £7 students Mozart Players offer a rare opportunity to gain insight into orchestral playing Book at royalholloway.ac.uk/events techniques and methods, especially in relation to Mozart. For further information please email: [email protected] Free Gun Baby Gun: a bloody journey The Tippett Quartet side by side concert into the world of the gun Wednesday 11 November Thursday 12 November Boilerhouse Auditorium, 7.30pm Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm As part of their first year as Quartet-in-Residence at Royal Holloway, members of the renowned Tippett Quartet will present a side-by-side chamber music Iain Overton programme with Royal Holloway students, focusing on the music of Mozart. Author and Director of Policy and Investigations for Free the Charity Action on Armed Violence There are almost one billion guns across the globe today – more than ever Mozart: The Prodigy before. There are 12 billion bullets produced every year – almost two bullets for Thursday 12 November every person on this earth. And as many as 500,000 people are killed by them Boilerhouse Auditorium, 7.30pm ever year worldwide. The gun’s impact is long-reaching and often hidden. And it doesn’t just involve the dead, the wounded, the suicidal and the mourning. It Anna Cashell, violin involves us all. In this lecture, award-wining investigative journalist Iain Overton Simon Watterton, piano recounts how, in writing a critically acclaimed book about the gun’s impact on Featuring Royal Holloway’s very own and extremely talented violin and piano the world, he embarked upon a shocking and eye-opening journey to over teachers, Anna Cashell and Simon Watterton, this evening will feature music by 25 countries, from South Africa to Iceland, Honduras to Cambodia. Mozart for violin and piano, the two instruments played by the composer and Free child prodigy himself. Special Lecture and book signing Free 10 November Concerts Lectures Recitals Family and community events HOW TO BOOK, SEE PAGE 5
How is Antarctica changing The Tippett Quartet Recital and why should we care? Thursday 19 November Monday 16 November Picture Gallery, 7.30pm Moore Building Lecture Theatre, 6.15pm Haydn: Op. 103 Professor Martin Siegert Mozart: Quartet No. 19, “Dissonance" Co-Director, Grantham Institute for Climate Change Mozart: Adagio & Fugue and Environment, Imperial College Schubert: Death and the Maiden The idea of Terra Australis Incognita (The Unknown Southern Land) began Royal Holloway is very pleased to welcome the renowned and critically- with the Greeks, who argued a southern landmass was required to balance the acclaimed Tippett Quartet in their first year as Quartet-in-Residence. They northern world. For more than 2,000 years we have been fascinated by the have performed at the BBC Proms and festivals through the UK and abroad discovery and exploration of Antarctica. This quest for knowledge has resulted and have a reputation for animated, virtuoso performances and inspired and in some notable events in our history, including the second voyage of Captain attractive programming. Cook in the late 18th century, the heroic early exploration by (among others) £10 (£8 senior citizens, £5 staff, free to Royal Holloway students and alumni) Robert Scott, Ernest Shackleton and Douglas Mawson 100 years ago, and the colossal post-WW2 scientific collaboration of the International Geophysical Year. Antarctica remains unquestionably the most unexplored region on Earth. This lecture will discuss: how our appreciation of Antarctica has changed as a consequence of the technological advances needed for scientific discovery; the role that Gordon Robin played in measuring Antarctica and how the techniques he pioneered have led to our comprehension of ice-sheet flow and evolution; how the view of Antarctica as a cold, lifeless, static continent has been transformed within a decade by a new appreciation of it as a changing, dynamic region that modulates our global environment; what Antarctic change means for the United Kingdom, and why we should be concerned. Free Gordon Manley Lecture
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St Cecilia’s Evening Seductions of Tradition: Saturday 21 November a lecture-performance with puppets Concert and Reception Monday 23 November Chapel and Picture Gallery, 6-7.30pm Caryl Churchill Theatre, 6.15pm Rupert Gough, Director Professor Matthew Isaac Cohen Choir of Royal Holloway Department of Drama & Theatre Orchestra Nova Traditional theatrical arts, once decried as regressive, Lucy Wakeford (harp) recollected nostalgically, or mourned for their imminent passing, have resurged Rachel Gough (violin) in the global ecumene. New generations of practitioners bring fresh energies This year’s feast of music will include the world première of a new work by to established genres, hybrid and intermedial arts are emerging, and old forms Cecilia McDowell and highlights from the choir’s new CD release Calm on the are being critically reframed and reinvented. This ludic performance-lecture Listening Ear of Night. We will be joined by the professional London ensemble with wayang kulit puppets from Java (Indonesia) riffs on tradition in modernity, Orchestra Nova for works including Mahler’s sublime Adagietto. considers the roles of ‘outside’ researchers and practitioners of Asian performance, and celebrates the embracement of otherness. £15 (free to Royal Holloway students) Free Feast Please park on campus, in Car Park 4 and walk over the bridge to the Founder’s Dining Hall, 7.45pm Caryl Churchill Theatre (see page 28). A splendid three-course dinner, wine, coffee and petits fours served in the Inaugural Lecture Founder’s Dining Hall. The Choir will perform between courses. £60 Dress code: Black tie Guests are welcome to attend either or both parts of the St Cecilia’s Evening. Guests attending both concert and feast are required to pre-book their tickets using the booking form on page 31. Early booking is essential. Concert tickets only are available online at royalholloway.ac.uk/events or on the door from 5.15pm.
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The business of Business Ethics and the ethics of business Going to the ends of the Earth as a Tuesday 24 November woman in Science Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm Thursday 26 November Professor Laura Spence Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm School of Management Professor Jane Francis Is business the enemy, or the hero, of global progress? Are businesses the cause Director, British Antarctic Survey or the solution to global challenges, not least, social injustice, rampant climate On a continent of which over 99% is now covered change and extreme poverty? Is business ethics an oxymoron? Laura Spence with ice sheets, paradoxically, some of the most common fossils are those of expands on her vision for how business ethics can help disentangle the role of plants. They indicate that millions of years ago Antarctica was a green and business in society. To address this important question she takes inspiration from forested land, even though the continent was situated over the South Pole. The the likes of Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Michel Foucault and Virginia Held, and fossils contain a rich store of climate information that provides a window into draws on her wide-ranging research on ethics and corporate social responsibility past greenhouse worlds with ice-free poles. This lecture includes examples of in organisations as varied as Sainsbury’s, the International Olympic Committee, some of the spectacular fossil plants that we find in and in particular a multitude of small businesses. Antarctica and how they are used to understand what Free polar climates were like in the past when the world Inaugural Lecture was a much warmer place. It will also explain how we undertake geological fieldwork in this awesomely Royal Holloway Chorus beautiful but remote and harsh landscape. Free Wednesday 25 November Women in Science Lecture Chapel, 7.30pm Rutter’s festive Gloria for choir organ and brass, alongside works by Bruckner, Vaughan Williams and Walton £10 (£8 senior citizens, £5 staff, free to Royal Holloway students and alumni) Book online at chapelchoir.co.uk. Tickets also available on the door 30 minutes before the performance.
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Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra The relationship of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens Wednesday 2 December Thursday 3 December Windsor Building Auditorium, 7.30pm Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm Rebecca Miller, conductor Professor Chris Stringer FRS Danny Driver, piano Natural History Museum and Visiting Professor Dorothy Howell: Piano Concerto Our evolutionary relationship with the Neanderthals has been a subject of Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 dispute since the first fossil discoveries over 150 years ago, with views ranging from Pierre Jalbert: Chamber Symphony Mvt 3 regarding them as our direct ancestors, to seeing them as a deep and distantly One of the UK’s foremost pianists continually praised for his successful related lineage. Even 30 years ago, many scientists still considered Europe to be championing of rarely performed and neglected works, Hyperion Records a locus for the evolution of Homo sapiens, with the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic artist Danny Driver has recorded 10 critically-acclaimed CDs for the label, archaeological transition paralleling a gradual transformation of the Neanderthals many of which have been chosen for awards by Gramophone Magazine and into modern humans. However since then, accumulating fossil, archaeological other major UK publications. Danny has most recently recorded a disc of piano and genetic evidence has suggested that the European mid-late Pleistocene concertos by women composers with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, record instead documents the appearance and subsequent physical extinction which includes works by Dorothy Howell, Cecil Chaminade and Amy Beach, of the Neanderthals. Nevertheless, the cultural and evolutionary succession and which will be released by Hyperion in 2016. The Royal Holloway Symphony from neanderthalensis to sapiens looks more complex than a straightforward Orchestra includes students and staff from across the University. and complete replacement of one by the other, with new archaeological and chronological data, and genomic evidence of the survival of Neanderthal DNA £10 (£8 senior citizens, £5 staff, free to Royal Holloway students and alumni) in extant humans. How much interaction there actually was between these populations in Eurasia, and its exact nature, remains to be established. Free Stevenson Science Lecture
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Lessons and Carols service Out of the Ice Ages: our past, present and future Saturday 5 December, 6pm Saturday 9 January Thursday 10 December, 6.15pm Windsor Building Auditorium, 10am-4.30pm Chapel Paving the way for our renowned Science Open Day, join us for an entertaining Free and thought-provoking day of expert talks and hands-on activities on Pre-booking for this event is essential. Tickets are released on Monday 2 the subject of our changing climate, ecosystems, ice sheets and human November and you may book up to a maximum of four. Please book online at occupation. Demonstrations include modelling sea level change and glacier royalholloway.ac.uk/events retreat, megafloods, re-wilding Britain, stone tools, ice age fossils and volcanic eruptions, rounded off by a Q&A session with the scientists from our Choir of Royal Holloway at Christmas Department of Geography. with the Bristol Ensemble Free, no need to book. Wednesday 9 December Matthew Stanley, Piano Chapel, 7.30pm Sunday 17 January Rupert Gough, conductor Windsor Building Auditorium, 3.15pm A seasonal celebration of Christmas including Handel’s Messiah (Part I) and Grazioli/Friedman: Adagio in F minor carols from the Choir’s new Christmas CD. Beethoven: Sonata in Ab major, Op.110 £10 (£8 senior citizens, £5 staff, free to Royal Holloway students and alumni) Wagner/Liszt: Isolde’s Liebestod Book online at chapelchoir.co.uk. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody, No.15 Tickets also available on the door 30 minutes before the performance. Godowsky: Studies after Frederic Chopin Rachmaninoff: Sonata No.2 in Bb minor, Op.36 To celebrate teaching at Royal Holloway for 30 years, Matthew performs a recital of music composed or arranged by some of the foremost composers/ pianists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. £10 (£8 senior citizens, £5 staff, free to Royal Holloway students and alumni)
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Liberation and after – The Beethoven Project legacies of the Nazi concentration camps 26-28 January Tuesday 26 January The second ‘mini-festival’ will launch the multi-year venture ‘The Beethoven Project’ and will feature The Tippett Quartet, the London Mozart Players Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm side by side with Royal Holloway Chamber Orchestra, and distinguished Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann Royal Holloway instrumentalists and vocalists. Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College On the 29 April 1945 US troops entered the grounds of Dachau concentration The Tippett Quartet camp, near Munich, where they found 32,000 inmates from over 30 European Tuesday 26 January nations. Among them was Edgar Kupfer, a 39-year-old German political Boilerhouse Auditorium, 7.30pm prisoner. A few hours after his liberation, Kupfer noted in his diary: ‘I shall celebrate this all my life as a second birthday, as the day when I received the Haydn: Op. 20 No. 2 in C major gift of life anew’. In this lecture, Professor Wachsmann will explore the second Arvo Part: Fratres life of Edgar Kupfer and the lives of others who survived the concentration Beethoven: Op. 131 camps, estimated at up to half a million people. In particular, he will consider £10 (£8 senior citizens, £5 staff, free to Royal Holloway students and alumni) the first months and years after liberation, looking at the fate of survivors, at the testimony and memory of the camps, and at the punishment of perpetrators. London Mozart Players side by side with He will conclude by looking at the legacy of the camps since the 1950s. Royal Holloway Chamber Orchestra Free Wednesday 27 January Holocaust Memorial Lecture Boilerhouse Auditorium, 8pm Rebecca Miller, conductor The exciting partnership with the London Mozart Players culminates in a ground-breaking side by side performance. Featuring Beethoven as part of ‘The Beethoven Project’ and continuing the exploration of Mozart from the expertise of the London Mozart Players, Royal Holloway has the rare opportunity of working alongside experts in the field. £10 (£8 senior citizens, £5 staff, free to Royal Holloway students and alumni)
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Beethoven in chamber music and song What is progress? How are we doing, Thursday 28 January and where next? Boilerhouse Auditorium, 7.30pm Monday 8 February Beethoven is renowned for his string quartets, symphonies and chamber music, Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm but many do not realize his extraordinary output of song. This evening will Craig Bennett integrate the chamber music and vocal sides to this extraordinary composer. Chief Executive Officer, Friends of the Earth £10 (£8 senior citizens, £5 staff, free to Royal Holloway students and alumni) “You can’t stop progress” is the lazy heckle sometimes directed at environmentalists. But what is “progress”? As a species, how are we Notes from a mud hut in Deutsche Bank: really doing and where should we be going next? anthropology and the changing concept of In this lecture, Craig Bennett will look at the evolution of the concept of culture in international business “progress”. What does it mean, what should it mean, and what should “progress” Tuesday 2 February really look like this century? Might modern positive environmentalism represent real progress? In which case, who are the real enemies of progress? And critically Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm what role for universities and business schools? Professor Fiona Moore Free School of Management Sustainability Lecture Since the 1970s, anthropologists have been studying multinational corporations. In these days when businesspeople are seeking alternatives to Royal Holloway Sinfonietta traditional management theory, this talk explores what we can learn from the anthropology of business, particularly regarding culture and globalization. Wednesday 10 February Free Boilerhouse Auditorium, 7.30pm Inaugural Lecture The Sinfonietta gives two concerts each year at Royal Holloway. Its programmes feature contemporary music by established and emerging composers and regularly include the music of Royal Holloway's student composers. There are opportunities for students to perform concertos and to collaborate with visiting professional performers. £10 (£8 senior citizens, £5 staff, free to Royal Holloway students and alumni)
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Who am I? The embodied foundation James Kirby, Piano of the self Friday 19 February Thursday 11 February Windsor Building Auditorium, 7.30pm Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm Mozart: Sonata in F K533/494 Professor Manos Tsakiris Beethoven: Sonata in A Op 2/2 Department of Psychology Peter Lawson (b.1951): The Song of the Fen Orchid (2015) Questions that have been previously asked only in James Kirby performs masterpieces by Mozart and philosophical investigations, such as the nature of the self, have now become Beethoven, and a new composition written by Peter Lawson especially for accessible to experimental psychology and cognitive neurosciences. Recent James' 50th birthday, reflecting his passion for wild flowers and orchids in advances in research methods and experimental designs have enabled us to particular. study experimentally our sense of self. The lecture will focus on recent studies £10 (£8 senior citizens, £5 staff, free to Royal Holloway students and alumni) that probe the nature of the mental representation of the self. In particular, converging evidence suggests that awareness of one’s body is intimately linked Faith in international relations to self-identity, the sense of being “me”. Interestingly, the same mechanisms that Tuesday 23 February give rise to body-awareness are also important for the self's social cognition. Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm Free Professor Francis Campbell Inaugural Lecture Principal, St Mary’s University Francis Campbell graduated from Queen’s University, Belfast (BA), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (MA) and University of Pennsylvania (Thouron Fellow). As a member of HM Diplomatic Service his postings included at the European Union, at the United Nations Security Council, Italy and at the FCO in London. From 1999-2003 he served on the staff of the then Prime Minister Tony Blair, first as a Policy Adviser in the No 10 Policy Unit and then as a Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He later served as HM Ambassador to the Holy See, and subsequently as Deputy High Commissioner in Pakistan. Free Chaplaincy Lecture
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Royal Holloway Chorus The ‘good prison’ redefined – Wednesday 24 February The Mandela Rules Windsor Auditorium, 7.30pm Monday 29 February Rupert Gough, Conductor Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm Carl Orff: Carmina Burana Nick Hardwick Jonathan Dove: The passing of the year Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons £10 (£8 senior citizens, £5 staff, free to Royal Holloway students and alumni) At the end of 2015, the UN General Assembly is Book online at chapelchoir.co.uk expected to adopt the Mandela Rules or ‘United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners’ to give them their formal title. Today, the Philanthropy Changing Lives: Mandela Rules are the most important development in prison standards for half education, training and skills a century and set new operational and ethical standards fit for our time. Nick Hardwick will consider both historic and international examples to reflect on Thursday 25 February the importance of the new rules and, at the end of his term as Chief Inspector Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm of Prisons in England and Wales, use his experience to examine how far prisons Find out how modern-day philanthropists are in England and Wales measure up and to insist on the changes necessary to working with local charities and community ensure that they do. groups to change the prospects of children and young people through Free education and training, and revolutionise traditional understandings of Launch of the School of Law Lecture philanthropic giving. Keynote speakers, The Rt Hon Lord Harris of Peckham & Lady Harris DBE DL, awarded the Beacon Award for Philanthropy 2015, explain why they have spent the last 40 years and 20% of their wealth on revolutionising foetal medicine and the Academy school movement. Other speakers include an eminent local philanthropist and a representative from the exciting new Speech and Language Interventions pilot project based in Englefield Green. Free The Community Foundation for Surrey Philanthropy Lecture
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The Jews and the First Crusade: Fawcett Lecture conversion and martyrdom Monday 7 March, 6.30pm Thursday 3 March Beveridge Hall, University of London, Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Professor William C Jordan Dame Jenni Murray DBE Department of History, Princeton University Journalist and broadcaster (BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour) This lecture will focus on the traumatic events of 1096 as the armies of the First Crusade inflicted a series of devastating attacks on the Jenni Murray DBE has become synonymous with BBC Radio 4 weekday show Jewish communities of the Rhineland. The lecture will outline the background Woman’s Hour which she has presented since 1987. Dame Murray joined BBC to the First Crusade and narrate a few of the major episodes so as to prepare Radio Bristol in 1973 before becoming a reporter and presenter for local news the audience for the story. It will concentrate on what has been and can be programme South Today. She was a newsreader and later one of the presenters learned from the Hebrew and Latin sources for the Jews' responses. It will end of the BBC’s Newsnight television programme for two years from 1983 before by discussing the profound effect of these assaults on various facets of Jewish moving to Radio 4 to present the Today programme. She has also presented life in the long term, in part drawing on the rich literature on post-traumatic Radio 4’s The Message and written for magazines stress disorder. and newspapers including the Daily Express and the Daily Mail. Free For full details please check royalholloway.ac.uk/events Hayes-Robinson Lecture from January 2016. Royal Holloway Science Open Day Saturday 5 March 10am-4pm Be inspired by science at the annual Royal Holloway Science Open Day. Come and be part of our popular day of hands-on activities, demonstrations, talks, live experiments and much more. Presented by staff and students from each of our science departments, as well as guest exhibitors, our packed programme has something for all the family. Free, no need to book. royalholloway.ac.uk/science
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The Elephant in the Room: literature in an Runnymede Literary Festival interdisciplinary academy Saturday 12 – Thursday 24 March, dates and times vary Tuesday 8 March Events will be held at Royal Holloway and in Egham. Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm The Runnymede Literary Festival will start with a Readers’ Day on Saturday Professor Juliet John 12 March (in Egham). This will run from 10am – 4.30pm and will include talks, Department of English panels and the opportunity for readers to talk with novelists about their work. The focus, in the morning, will be on war– a century of wars from WW1 An awkward silence often surrounds the ideas of ‘literature’ and ‘the literary’ to Afghanistan – and, in the afternoon, on writing historical fiction. From 12 in today’s interdisciplinary academic environment. This lecture will relate March until the end of term, the Festival will be commemorating the 400th this uneasiness to the origins of English literature as an academic discipline anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. There will be a particular focus on Henry in the Victorian period and the legacy of its founding ideologies through the IV: Dr Catherine Nall, who is writing a biography of Henry IV, will talk about the 20th century to the present day. Renewed attention to the aesthetic has done historical Henry IV; Dr Christie Carson will talk about productions of Henry IV; little to usher the literary back into academic conversations. The lecture will and Dr Henry Newman will arrange a reading of Henry IV, Part 1. Other events argue that it is crucial to defences of the Arts and Humanities, to Victorian will be announced in due course, please check our website for up to date studies and to interdisciplinary practice, that we find ways of re-evaluating and programme details. repositioning the literary. Free Free Inaugural Lecture
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Sarah Fox and the Choir Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra of Royal Holloway Wednesday 16 March Tuesday 15 March Windsor Building Auditorium, 7.30pm Picture Gallery, 7pm Rebecca Miller, conductor Sarah Fox, Soprano Momoko Arima, violin (winner of the Royal Holloway Concerto Competition) Choir of Royal Holloway Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Steven Higgins, Piano Mahler: Symphony no. 4 Songs from America Involving students and staff from across the University, the symphony In anticipation of the Choir’s tour to the USA, we present a programme of music orchestra prides itself on its hard-working and stimulating rehearsal from America including samples from the choir’s new recording of American environment and ability to extend itself beyond its expected capabilities. This choral music and Aaran Copland’s In the beginning for choir and soprano solo. programme of large-scale symphonic works will feature Momoko Arima, an For the second half Sarah Fox will present a Walk along Broadway. Composers extraordinarily charismatic performer and prodigious violinist, winner of the will include Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Jerome Kern. 2015 Royal Holloway Concerto Competition - a performance not to be missed. Early booking is essential, either online at royalholloway.ac.uk/events or £10 (£8 senior citizens, £5 staff, free to Royal Holloway students and alumni) on booking form on page 31. For further information please contact the Events Office (page 5). £20, £5 for Royal Holloway students (limited number) Tickets will also be on sale on the door from 6pm.
Masterclass with Sarah Fox Wednesday 16 March Picture Gallery, 4-6pm Sarah Fox, Soprano and Honorary Fellow, is returning to Royal Holloway to hold a masterclass in the Picture Gallery. Current students, alumni, local schools and members of the public are welcome. Free
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Learning in the cerebellum: CHROMA an ‘autopilot’ system in the human brain CHROMA is an acclaimed, London-based, flexible chamber ensemble Thursday 17 March dedicated both to new music and to revisiting classic repertoire in fresh and exciting contexts; mentoring the next generation of composers, and involving Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm audiences in compelling, inspirational experiences. Professor Narender Ramnani Friday 18 March Department of Psychology Picture Gallery, 7.30pm Primates, including humans, have remarkable problem-solving abilities that other species lack. The neocortex organises Philip Cashian: Creeping Frogs, Flying Bats and Swimming Fish thoughts and actions for flexible problem-solving, but this process can be Royal Holloway composition students: New Works slow and depletes limited attentional resources. There is a brain structure with £10 (£8 senior citizens, £5 staff, free to Royal Holloway students and alumni) complementary properties that can compensate. The cerebellum contains over half of the 100 billion neurons in the human brain. This vast memory store is thought to be the brain’s ‘autopilot’ system: it is not very flexible, but it can learn and store solutions worked out by other systems like the neocortex, and apply them with impressive speed and accuracy when the same problems arise again. In fact, robotics researchers are attempting to replicate its abilities. This lecture will discuss the evidence that the human cerebellum is a memory store for skilled action and thought, and integrate findings from brain anatomy, activity, evolution, investigations of behaviour, and the application of theoretical ideas that borrow from principles in engineering. Free Inaugural Lecture
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The art and ethics of discretion The Gennadius Library in Athens: Monday 21 March the vision of a Greek of the Diaspora Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm Tuesday 22 March Professor Tony Evans Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm Head of the Department of Social Work Dr Maria Georgopoulou Discretion is a defining characteristic of Director, The Gennadius Library, American School of professionalism. Since the 1980s, management Classical Studies, Athens reforms in public services have sought to constrain discretion - but their In 1926 John Gennadius, an Athenian diplomat in London, offered his success has been limited. More recently, there seems to have been a move 30,000-volume library to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens to promote discretion but with a changed, entrepreneurial character. Tony for the use of “the scholars of all nations” following the example of earlier Evans will consider key questions about the ethics of discretion within the benefactors from the Greek diaspora. The guiding principle of his collecting context of managerialised public services. He will consider how the voices of was to illuminate the history of the Greek “genius” through the ages. The frontline practitioners can contribute to debates about the extent and uses of lecture will assess the significance that the Gennadius Library has had for the discretion. This, he will argue, will involve considering frontline practitioners as development and growth of post-antique Hellenic studies in the past ninety practical ethicists, whose analyses and arguments not only help us understand years and the possibilities and challenges that lie ahead. the nature of their ethical deliberations, but also provide a critical perspective Free alongside that of service-users and carers in evaluating and examining service provision and policy developments. Hellenic Lecture Free Inaugural Lecture
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Heritage Open Day Finals recitals Sunday 11 September These free daytime performances by students in advanced performance take North Quad, Founder’s Building, 11am-5pm place over several days at the end of May. Please see our website for dates and times. royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events Royal Holloway welcomes the public to explore its spectacular Grade I Listed Founder's Building, Picture Free, no need to book. Gallery, Chapel and extensive grounds. The Founder's Building, founded by entrepreneur Thomas Holloway Friday lunchtime recitals and opened by Queen Victoria in 1886, is modelled Students from the Department of Music will perform in the Picture Gallery on on the Château de Chambord in the Loire Valley. Its flamboyant architecture Fridays at 1.15pm. makes it one of the most impressive university buildings in the world. Free, no need to book. Picture Gallery open 11am-5pm, guided tours start at 11.30am (free). Tours of campus (45 minutes) are available for a small charge of £2 per person, Midweek music payable at the time. Wednesdays, 1.15-1.45pm Tours of the Archives and Founder’s Library are also available (free). Come and relax in the beautiful setting of the Chapel on Wednesday Free (except campus tours), no need to book. lunchtimes and hear the renowned Choir of Royal Holloway. The 30-minute performances are free of charge and informal, allowing people to come and go Refreshments available; guide dogs only, all welcome. as their schedule allows. Programmes will be varied with different themes each week featuring both sacred and secular music. More information, and details of programmes, can be found on the Choir's website: chapelchoir.co.uk Free, no need to book.
25 Tours of the College Picture Gallery
Royal Holloway’s world-famous collection of Victorian paintings gives an insight into scenes of contemporary Victorian life and romanticized mythology. In addition to the Heritage Open Day, we organise tailor-made guided visits for groups of 30 or more. College tours include a guided tour of the Chapel, North Quad, Founder’s Dining Hall, South Quad, Founder’s Library, Victorian Corridor and the Picture Gallery. To discuss your tour requirements please contact: [email protected] or call 01784 443004
Picture Gallery opening hours Our world-class painting collection is housed in the Grade I listed Picture Gallery. It is open every Wednesday 10am-3pm in the autumn term (except 28 October). During opening hours there is the chance to see the College’s first exhibition Magna Carta and the Loss of Liberties in Victorian Art inspired by the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. 26 Art talks
The Press Gang The Suppliants: Expulsion of the Gypsies from Spain by George Morland by Edwin Longsden Long Tuesday 20 October, 1.15-2pm Wednesday 18 November, 12.30-1.15pm Wednesday 4 November, 12.30-1.15pm Tuesday 8 December, 1.15-2pm George Morland was best known in his day for rustic scenes depicting life in the Edwin Long devoted his life to painting scenes from Spanish life and history for countryside but he also tackled contemporary social issues including slavery 17 years. This talk looks at his most ambitious Spanish picture which tackles the and the use of press gangs. This talk explores one of the earliest, and most themes of royal power and racial injustice. violent, paintings in the collection. Free, no need to book.
For further information on events please see royalholloway.ac.uk/artcollections 27 Directions Car parking By road By taxi from Egham When you arrive for a College event at our Egham The College is on the A30, 19 miles from central There is a taxi rank at the station. Otherwise, campus, please park in car parks 1E, 1W, 12 or 4. London and about a mile south-west of the town turn right out of the station onto Station Road Car park 12 can be accessed by turning right as you of Egham. It is two miles from Junction 13 of the and there is a taxi office on the left, next to the enter the main College gates; it is next to the tennis M25 (London Orbital). Build Center. The fare is about £5. courts. Car park 1E and 1W are the car parks situated Directions from the M25 On foot from Egham around Founder’s Building; you drive straight ahead 1 After leaving the M25, follow the A30 west The College is about a mile from the station, to reach these as you come through the main College (signposted Bagshot and Camberley); this is approximately a 20-minute walk. gates. If either of these car parks is full, please drive further onto our campus to car park 4, which is behind the Egham by-pass. Directions from Egham station the Students’ Union. You can see each of our car parks 2 At the end of the Egham by-pass, continue on 1 Turn right out of the station along Station Road on the map opposite. We would advise that you bring the A30 up Egham Hill (a BP petrol station and walk about 100 yards to the junction and the College map to campus with you and give yourself is on your left). the traffic lights plenty of time to park. 3 The main College entrance is on the left 2 Turn left at the junction and follow the road to Blue Badge holders can find designated parking immediately after the second footbridge. the large roundabout; go left up Egham Hill spaces in Car Parks 1E and 1W, as well as between Directions from the west 3 The main College entrance is on the left Garden Lodge and the Williams Annexe. You can 1 From the west leave the M3 at Junction 3 and immediately after the second footbridge find each of these car parks by looking at our campus follow the A30 towards Staines and London. By bus map opposite. If you require any assistance on arrival, 2 Continue on the A30 past Wentworth Golf The following buses stop outside the College: please contact our Premises team in advance of your Course on your right and Virginia Water Lake on Travel Surrey 441 (Heathrow to Englefield Green) visit by emailing [email protected] your left. Go straight through the first major set and First 71 (Heathrow to Slough). and they will be happy to help. of traffic lights and you will see the Founder’s For local bus information, visit Surrey County Please note that we do operate an Automatic Number Building and the College entrance on the right. Council’s website: surreycc.gov.uk and select Plate Recognition (ANPR) system on certain parts of By train Roads and transport, buses and trains. our campus. However, if you are here for an organised There are frequent services from London Waterloo event at any time of the day and park in car parks 1E, 1W, to Egham (40 minutes); Reading to Egham (40 Further information 12 or 4, you do not need to worry about registering for minutes); and Woking to Egham (35 minutes; For College maps, and directions to Huntersdale, a permit. We want to welcome you to our campus to change at Weybridge). Services at weekends, please visit: royalholloway.ac.uk/aboutus and enjoy as many events as possible, so you can park in car especially those on Sunday, are less frequent than select Our campus. parks 1E, 1W, 12 or 4 during all College events without on weekdays. the worry of being captured by the cameras. For local train timetables, visit South West Trains’ If you have any questions about parking, please website: southwesttrains.co.uk email: [email protected] For national rail enquiries, visit: nationalrail.co.uk
28 Car parking Map key
When you arrive for a College event at our Egham MLT Main Lecture Theatre campus, please park in car parks 1E, 1W, 12 or 4. CCT PG Picture Gallery
Car park 12 can be accessed by turning right as you C Chapel enter the main College gates; it is next to the tennis QB Queen’s Building courts. Car park 1E and 1W are the car parks situated around Founder’s Building; you drive straight ahead WB Windsor Building to reach these as you come through the main College CCT Caryl Churchill Theatre gates. If either of these car parks is full, please drive NT North Tower and entrance to further onto our campus to car park 4, which is behind P4 Picture Gallery and Chapel the Students’ Union. You can see each of our car parks on the map opposite. We would advise that you bring Parking (1–17) the College map to campus with you and give yourself plenty of time to park. Blue Badge holders can find designated parking spaces in Car Parks 1E and 1W, as well as between QB Garden Lodge and the Williams Annexe. You can find each of these car parks by looking at our campus map opposite. If you require any assistance on arrival, please contact our Premises team in advance of your visit by emailing [email protected] and they will be happy to help.
Please note that we do operate an Automatic Number P1E WB Plate Recognition (ANPR) system on certain parts of C our campus. However, if you are here for an organised NT event at any time of the day and park in car parks 1E, 1W, PG 12 or 4, you do not need to worry about registering for a permit. We want to welcome you to our campus to enjoy as many events as possible, so you can park in car P12 parks 1E, 1W, 12 or 4 during all College events without the worry of being captured by the cameras. If you have any questions about parking, please P1W email: [email protected] MLT
29 College Books
Thomas Holloway’s College – The First 125 Years Victorian Taste – The Complete Catalogue of Paintings A Pictorial History by Richard Williams by Jeannie Chapel A fascinating pictorial record of the first 125 years of the College. The book, Thomas Holloway, who founded this collection, has several claims to fame; first published in 1993 under the title A Pictorial History has been redesigned not only did he purchase his pictures in the short space of two years and built and reprinted with new material added to cover the years up to 2011. the College in which they are housed, but his preferences for the work of living artists of his own day ensures that this catalogue represents and comments at Thomas Holloway, Victorian Philanthropist length upon some of the most famous academic paintings of the 19th century. by Anthony Harrison-Barbet The Price of Beauty: Edwin Long’s Babylonian Marriage Market A biographical essay on the Founder of Royal Holloway College. This publication was produced to accompany the exhibition of the same title at Leighton House Museum in October 2004–January 2005. The Holloway Sanatorium Guy Blythman Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Surrey A new and comprehensive book of photos and history about the former The Public Catalogue Foundation Holloway Sanatorium in Virginia Water, founded in 1885 by Thomas Holloway. This Surrey volume brings together 1,538 paintings from 58 collections in Palaces, Patronage & Pills the county. by John Elliott Pre-Raphaelite Treasures at National Museums Liverpool Thomas Holloway, the Sanatorium, the College and the Picture Collection. The Dr Laura MacCulloch book, first published in 1996, was redesigned The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood heralded an exciting new direction in British and reprinted in 2006 and again in 2010 with art, and the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William new spectacular photographs both of the Holman Hunt and their contemporaries remain some of the most popular, College and of the former Sanatorium, evocative and recognizable Victorian art. now Virginia Park. Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection Dr Mary Cowling This volume accompanied the exhibition organised by Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia 2008.
30 Mailing list and book order form
Book title Quantity £ each £ p+p each Total £ Name: Thomas Holloway’s College: The First 125 Years £10 £2 £ Address: Thomas Holloway, Victorian Philanthropist £2 £1 £ The Holloway Sanatorium £20 £5 £ Palaces, Patronage & Pills £8 £2 £ Telephone: Victorian Taste £5 £2 £ Email: The Price of Beauty £2 £1 £ Please return to: Events Office, Royal Holloway, University of London, Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Surrey £15 £7 £ Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX Pre-Raphaelite Treasures at National £10 £2 £ Museums Liverpool Cheques to be made payable to ‘RHBNC’ Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: £25 £7 £ Please ensure I am on the What’s On mailing list The Royal Holloway Collection Please remove me from your mailing list Total £ I would like to be kept up to date with College news
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St Cecilia’s Full Royal Holloway No. No. Total £ Name: Evening price students/concessions full concs Address: Concert £15 Free to Royal Holloway £ students (one ticket per student) Feast £60 £ Telephone: Feast: Please let us know the names of guests and any special dietary requirements. Total £ Email: Please return to: Events Office, Royal Holloway, University of London, Full Royal Holloway No. No. Total £ price students/concess ions full concs Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX Sarah Fox £20 £5 Royal Holloway students £ Cheques to be made payable to ‘RHBNC’ (one ticket per student) Please ensure I am on the What’s On mailing list Total £ Please remove me from your mailing list I would like to be kept up to date with College news
31 When you visit Royal Holloway you will notice that work is well under way on a number of projects across our campus.
Our new Library and Student Services Centre will sit opposite our inspiring and Other projects that will take shape over the coming year include new student iconic Founder's Building and will bring together a range of student services, accommodation, an improved entrance to our Founder’s Building and further shops and cafés as well as a dedicated study area for PhD students. The library improvements to car parking and road access. We are also developing plans for will be open 24/7, providing flexible learning and public spaces. It will include a new science building to support our first Electronic Engineering department purpose-built storage for the College’s art, archives and special collections and for a new music and media building. plus, for the first time, the facility for the public to access and view some of the Each of these projects is part of our commitment to develop our historic estate treasures we hold. Initial work started in summer 2015 and our goal is that the so that it meets the needs of people studying, working at and visiting our building will open for the start of the academic year in 2017. College today.
If you would like to find out more, please go to our website at royalholloway.ac.uk/estateplan or email us at [email protected] 32 An inspiring venue for any event
• The perfect venue for residental conferences, day meetings, weddings, banquets, training, group stay or team building • Modern accommodaton with over 2,500 bedrooms on-site • A dedicated team of experienced staff to help you get the most out of your event
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33 I was hugely privileged to receive such a great education. We all had grants and, if I had to pay the tuition fees and rent that students face today, I would most certainly have had to stay at home… “…It was the philanthropy of our Victorian forbearers that established Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. Now it’s up to us – who owe so much to our education – to help to sustain the College for others. Never has there been a greater need for our giving. Margaret Chadderton, legacy pledger, BA English ” What will your legacy be? Please consider leaving a legacy, however large or small, to the College in your Will and help support future generations.
For further details contact: Laura Bassani-Merron, Regular Giving and Legacies Manager Royal Holloway and Bedford New College +44 (0)1784 414478 [email protected] 34 We’re steeped in history, whilst shaping the future Over 150 years ago, our founders, Elizabeth Jesser Reid and Thomas Holloway, founded colleges to educate women. Today, the reach of their combined vision is recognised globally.
Over 150 years ago, Elizabeth Jesser Reid and Thomas Holloway founded Bedford College and Royal Holloway College to educate women. Today the reach of their combined vision is recognised globally. There are now more than 80,000 alumni in 158 countries who have directly benefited from their legacy.
Thank you to all of our current donors Your generous donations fund groundbreaking research to help tackle some of the world’s most challenging problems. Through scholarships, you support students who could not otherwise afford their education. You make major new projects possible. Each and every gift counts.
Please help us continue to invest in the future by making a gift to the College today.
For more information contact: Laura Bassani-Merron Regular Giving and Legacies Manager [email protected] +44 (0)1784 414 478 Development Department, RHBNC Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX
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