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Preview From Friday 29 May look out for the special preview events including Michael Morpurgo, Goalball and Science out of the Lab YORK FESTIVAL OF IDEAS 2015 HEADLINE SPONSOR

As a continuing Headline Sponsor, The Holbeck Charitable Trust is delighted to see York Festival of Ideas go from strength to strength.

The programme for 2015 offers a stimulating and diverse series of events, workshops, talks, performances and exhibitions. We applaud the Festival’s determination to remain as widely accessible as practicable by staging so many events where entry is free.

We are proud to support the team’s ambition to develop a festival which, in time, should become a mainstay of the national cultural calendar.

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York Festival of Ideas 2015 Contents

EXPLORING IDEAS OF Calendar of events 4 SECRETS AND DISCOVERIES Festival launch 10 FESTIVAL THEMES Curiouser and Curiouser 11 Welcome to the world of ‘Secrets and doing so we are stronger and more captivating. Discovering York 16 The Art of Communication 20 Discoveries’ seen through the lens of York Most of all we believe that we are a more Festival of Ideas. A world where audiences of compelling festival because our audiences are Science out of the Lab 24 all ages and interests can participate in over driven by an innate sense of curiosity. It is Revealing the Ancient World 26 100 free events encompassing art and design, notable that every year high-profile speakers, Eoforwic 28 the economy and equality, food and health, who regularly speak at international festivals, Behind the Lens 34 performance and poetry, the past and the comment on the originality and intelligence of Hidden Histories 36 future, security and surveillance, truth and the questions they are asked by York Festival of Culture and Identity 40 trust, technology and the environment, and Ideas audiences. So we thank our regular The Future of Democracy and much more. audience members who have helped us develop Economic Growth 43 The University of York is proud to lead on the the Festival, and we welcome with anticipation development of York Festival of Ideas. We new audiences. Performance 46 Private Lives 51 created the Festival in 2011 with just three Our audiences applaud the accessible, friendly The Theory of Everything 55 festival partners. We are now working with and open nature of the speakers and the more than 45 partners across the city and subjects. And so we also thank all the speakers Secrets of the Dead 60 nationally, including media organisations such and partners who have helped make this year’s Surveillance, Snowden and Security 61 as Classic FM, the BBC, The Guardian, Prospect programme such a cornucopia for the heart and Earth, Wind and Fire 64 Magazine and many others. The Festival is now the brain! As Albert Einstein said, “The The Future of Food 67 the largest free festival in the UK. important thing is not to stop questioning. Secrets and Lies 69 We share a passionate belief in the power Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” Sparks 70 of education and ideas to transform lives, For two weeks in June, join us to be entertained, Secrets, Discoveries and Medicine 73 and, that by working together, we deliver a educated and inspired. festival that engages diverse audiences and Supporters and donors 77 demonstrates what a collaborative and dynamic Joan Concannon Find your venue and maps 80 city York is. We work together because in Director of York Festival of Ideas Partners and sponsors Back cover CALENDAR OF EVENTS

TIME EVENT VENUE PAGE FESTIVAL PREVIEW EVENTS

● FRIDAY 29 AND SATURDAY 30 MAY 10am to 3pm Science out of the Lab St Sampson’s Square 24

● FRIDAY 5 JUNE 7.30pm to 9pm The Mozart Question York Minster 10

● SATURDAY 6 JUNE 12 noon to 3pm Goalball Taster Session Foss Sports Hall, York St John University 24 4pm to 4.50pm Sisters: A preview National Centre for Early Music 40 5pm to 6.15pm Artistic Censorship in Repressive Regimes National Centre for Early Music 40 7.30pm Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat National Centre for Early Music 46

ONGOING EVENTS

● THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL Looking Back through the Lens Online exhibition 34 10am to 4pm weekdays Rowntree York: 1000 Memories uncovered Friargate Friends Meeting House and Rowntree Park 17 Daylight hours In Between: Poems on York’s walls Snickets, passages and yards in York 11 School Challenge: Discoveries and secrets 70

● MONDAY 8 JUNE TO FRIDAY 12 JUNE During opening hours Viruses: Mathematical visualisations Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 73

● MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, FRIDAYS 2.15pm Yorkwalk: Secret York tours Starts at Museum Garden gates 17

● FRIDAY 26 JUNE TO SATURDAY 11 JULY Various In Fog and Falling Snow National Railway Museum 50

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TIME EVENT VENUE PAGE ● TUESDAY 9 JUNE 10am to 11.30 and Secrets of Penalty Kicks Foss Sports Hall, York St John University 26 4pm to 5.30pm 1pm to 2pm The Poet and the Spy St Helen’s Church 47 5.30pm to 6.30pm Truth, Trust and Trysts Tempest Anderson Hall 69 5.30pm to 6.30pm Universities and Social/Solidarity Economy Quad South Hall, York St John 43 5.30pm to 6.30pm The Art of Measure: Virus form and function Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 74 6.30pm to 7.30pm Introducing the Ancient Greeks K/133, King’s Manor, University of York 27 6.30pm to 7.45pm The Secret History of Biological Warfare Berrick Saul Building, University of York 74 7pm to 8.30pm The Quantum Universe Memorial Hall, St Peter’s School 55 7.15pm to 8.15pm Secrets from Journalism, Politics and Prison Tempest Anderson Hall 69 7.30pm to 8.30pm Discovering the Secret Lives of Killer Whales Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 64 7.30pm to 9.30pm Discover The Armed Man: A Mass of Peace Central Methodist Church, St Saviourgate 47 ● WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 12.30pm to 2.30pm Dictators for Dinner Belmont Room, Bettys Tearoom 36 2pm to 3pm York’s Finest: The Ormside Bowl Yorkshire Museum 29 4pm to 5.30pm The New “Alpha Territory” ARRC Auditorium, ARRC Building, University of York 43 5.30pm to 6.30pm The Yellow Peril: The Rise of Chinaphobia Music Research Centre, University of York 41 6.30pm to 7pm Organ Vespers St Helen’s Church 47 6pm to 7pm Ancient Sparta: How odd? K/133, King’s Manor, University of York 27 6.30pm to 7.30pm Mapping Anglian York The Marriott Room, Explore York Library 29 6.30pm to 7.45pm Healing at a Distance York Medical Society 74 6.30pm to 8.30pm Hidden Meanings in Foreign Language Learning Berrick Saul Building, University of York 21 6.45pm to 8.15pm What are the Demands of Democracy? Central Hall, University of York 44 7pm to 8.30pm Secrets and Discoveries: A storytelling evening ATB/042, Seebohm Rowntree Building, University of York 70 7.30pm to 8.30pm Egyptian Mummies: Secrets and discoveries K/133, King’s Manor, University of York 27 7.30pm to 9.45pm University of York Jazz Orchestra National Centre for Early Music 48 ● THURSDAY 11 JUNE 10am to 12 noon Who Holds the Secrets? J/P001, James College, University of York 21 11am to 4pm and 6pm to 7pm Rowntree York Revealed St Helen’s Church 17 12.30pm to 1.30pm Simon Pope on Walking as Art National Centre for Early Music 11 6pm to 6.50pm The Art of Stone in Anglian York K/133, King’s Manor, University of York 29 6pm to 8.30pm Fifty Active Years After Fifty® National Science Learning Centre, University of York 75 6pm to 9pm Art and Work in Conversation Harper and Carr shop, Fossgate 12 6.30pm to 7.45pm Melodrama and Medical Horror Stories Berrick Saul Building, University of York 75 7pm to 8pm Plants: The real silent witnesses DIG, St Saviourgate 60 7pm LUMA Film Festival Exhibition Norman Rea Gallery 34 7.15pm to 8.05pm Anglo-Saxon Astronomy K/133, King’s Manor, University of York 30

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TIME EVENT VENUE PAGE ● THURSDAY 11 JUNE CONTINUED 7.30pm to 8.30pm Secrets of the Dead – The science of who you are Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, Fossgate 60 8pm Back to the Beer-Hall: More Anglo-Saxon poetry Duke of York Pub, King’s Square 30 ● FRIDAY 12 JUNE 10.30am to 2pm The Three Minute Thesis Competition 3MT® LMB/002, Law and Management Building, University of York 21 2pm to 4pm A Victorian Walk through York Meet outside Castle Museum 18 6pm to 6.50pm Baghdad: City of peace, city of blood Berrick Saul Building, University of York 41 6pm to 7pm Augustus: From revolutionary to emperor K/133, King’s Manor, University of York 28 6pm to 7pm Rowntree York Heard King’s Manor Courtyard, University of York 18 6pm to 7.30pm Andrew Davies in Conversation Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 35 6.30pm to 8pm Secrets, Discoveries and Medicine National Science Learning Centre, University of York 76 7pm to 8.30pm Astrobiology: Hunt for alien life Memorial Hall, St Peter’s School 56 7pm to 9pm Scandal, Sex and Sedition Fairfax House 51 7pm to 9pm Zombies in York Waterstones 61 7.15pm to 8.05pm Scepticism and Tolerance in Pre-Modern Islam Berrick Saul Building, University of York 41 7.30pm to 8.20pm Biomolecular Codicology: The York Gospels K/133, King’s Manor, University of York 30 7.30pm to 9.30pm The Whispering Road National Centre for Early Music 48 ● SATURDAY 13 JUNE ● CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER ARTS FESTIVAL FOCUS WEEKEND PART ONE 1.15pm to 2.15pm Art Theft and Looting through History Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 12 2.30pm to 3.30pm Relics of the Reich Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 13 4pm to 5.30pm Alice in Wonderland 150 Years On: The story of Alice Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 22 10am to 1pm Figured Windows: Creative writing workshop K/111, King’s Manor, University of York 22 10am to 4pm Map Attack! Explore York Library Learning Centre 72 10am to 4pm Discovering Fishergate’s Secret Past Fishergate Postern Tower 31 11am, 12 noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm Storytelling Festival: Art in Museum Gardens Museum Gardens (or Yorkshire Museum if wet) 72 11am to 3pm Rock and Fossil Show Museum Gardens 64 11am to 3pm Rowntree York Experienced Mansion House 18 11am to 3pm Secrets of the Chocolate City Mansion House 71 11am to 8pm LUMA Film Festival Theatre, Film and Television Building, University of York 35 12 noon to 1pm From Stone Age to Phone Age Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 56 12.30pm to 9pm GoodFest 2015 Goodricke College, University of York 71 1.30pm to 4.30pm Festival Fringe Family Fun Afternoon Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 71 2pm to 3pm John Wedgwood Clarke: Poetry reading K/111 King’s Manor, University of York 12 2pm to 3.30pm Unveiling the Secrets of the Museum Evening Star Theatre, National Railway Museum 19 6.30pm to 7.45pm The Occult Roots of Modern Psychology Berrick Saul Building, University of York 76 6.30pm to 8.30pm Kathakali Family Concert National Centre for Early Music 48 6.30 pm to 7.30 pm A New History of the Central Powers at War K/113 King’s Manor, University of York 36

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TIME EVENT VENUE PAGE ● SUNDAY 14 JUNE ● CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER ARTS FESTIVAL FOCUS WEEKEND PART TWO 12 noon to 1pm Europe 1600-1815 in 1000 Objects Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 14 12 noon to 6.30pm Random Acts 3sixty, Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 13 1pm to 6pm Secrets and Discoveries Selling Exhibition Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 14 1.30pm to 3pm Turner, Ruskin, and the Pre-Raphaelites on Screen Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 14 3.15pm to 4.15pm Future Cities: How will we live next? Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 15 5pm to 6.15pm Culture and Wellbeing Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 15 6.30pm to 7.30pm Curating Savage Beauty: Alexander McQueen Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 15 10am to 4pm Discovering Fishergate’s Secret Past Fishergate Postern Tower 31 11am to 12 noon In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream! P/X001, Physics Exhibition Centre 57 11am to 12 noon Waterloo: Followers of fashion York Castle Museum 37 11am to 3pm Map Attack! York Explore Library Learning Centre 72 11am to 5pm Big Telescopes: Family Day Physics Exhibiton Centre 56 11am to 8pm LUMA Film Festival Theatre, Film and Television Building, University of York 35 12 noon to 1.30pm Finding Poems on Walls: A walking tour Meet outside York Minster 13 1pm to 2pm Let there be Light! P/X001, Physics Exhibition Centre 57 2pm to 3pm and 3.30pm to 4.30pm Professor Herring’s Hystery Starts from Museum Gardens 19 3pm to 4pm A Zoo of Galaxies P/X001, Physics Exhibition Centre 57 6pm to 9pm L’image Manquante: The Missing Picture The Basement, City Screen Picturehouse 35 ● MONDAY 15 JUNE ● THE FUTURE OF FOOD FESTIVAL FOCUS DAY 10am to 2pm Quorn: Food out of the kitchen St Sampson Square 67 3pm to 4.30pm The Future of Food: The ticking time bomb Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 68 4.45pm to 6.30pm You Are What You Eat Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 68 7pm to 8.30pm Let’s Talk About Meat Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 68 10.30am to 12 noon Secrets of The Pyramid Castle Howard 37 1pm to 4pm Eoforwic North Yorkshire Coach Tour Departs from Memorial Gardens 31 2pm to 3pm The Coinage of Eoforwic Yorkshire Museum 31 6pm to 6.50pm John Aubrey: The Biography of a biographer K/133 King’s Manor, University of York 51 6pm to 7pm Eoforwic, Jorvik and the Viking Centre Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, Fossgate 32 7pm to 8.30pm Mini Magnetospheres P/L001, Physics Exhibition Centre 58 7pm to 8pm The Mysteries of Mother Shipton ATB/042 Seebohm Rowntree Building, University of York 52 7.15pm to 8.05pm Agincourt 1415: Truth and myth K/133 King’s Manor, University of York 42 ● TUESDAY 16 JUNE 10.30am to 12 noon and Behind the Scenes at York Archaeological Trust 421 Huntington Road, YO31 9HT 19 2.30pm to 4pm 11am to 12.30pm Introduction to Geological Maps Yorkshire Museum 65

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TIME EVENT VENUE PAGE ● TUESDAY 16 JUNE CONTINUED 2pm to 3.30pm William Smith: The father of English geology Yorkshire Museum 65 2pm to 4.30pm Medieval City: A canvas for contemporary art K/159, King’s Manor, University of York 16 4pm to 6pm Printing in 18th Century York Starting at The Old Palace, Dean’s Park 20 5pm to 6pm The Map of Russia, 15th-19th Centuries Berrick Saul Building, University of York 42 6.30pm to 7.20pm All Aboard the Cloud Lab: Crossing America in an airship Berrick Saul Building, University of York 65 6.30pm to 7.30pm Blue Note: 75 Years of the finest in Jazz Music Research Centre, University of York 49 6.30pm to 7.30pm A Journey through James Joyce and Irish Song St Helen’s Church 49 7pm to 8.30pm Is Anybody Out There? P/X001, Physics Exhibition Centre 58 7pm to 8.30pm What’s New with the Vikings? Explore York Library Learning Centre 37 7.35pm to 8.15pm Drone Society Berrick Saul Building, University of York 26 ● WEDNESDAY 17 JUNE 2pm to 3.30pm Unveiling the Secrets of the Museum Evening Star Theatre, National Railway Museum 19 6pm to 7pm The US and the Rest of Us Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 42 6pm to 7pm Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century Berrick Saul Building, University of York 52 6.30pm to 7.20pm The Weather Experiment Lakehouse Room, Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 66 6.30pm to 7.45pm Medicine’s Painful Past K/133, King’s Manor, University of York 76 7.30pm to 8.20pm Freedom Regained: The possibility of free will Berrick Saul Building, University of York 58 7pm to 9pm The Author’s Effects Exhibition and Lecture Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 53 7.35pm to 8.25pm Journey to the Centre of the Earth Lakehouse Room, Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 66 ● THURSDAY 18 JUNE 10am to 4pm Exploring Learning Global Cultures Quad South Hall, York St John University 22 12.30pm to 2.30pm The Abuse of Hot Liquors Belmont Room, Bettys Tearoom 38 4pm to 5pm The Life and Legacy of George Bradshaw Evening Star Theatre, National Railway Museum 53 5.30pm to 7pm Finds from Fishergate Yorkshire Museum 32 6.30pm to 7.20pm Prostitution in Victorian York K/133, King’s Manor, University of York 53 6.30pm to 8pm Mad Men and Bad Men Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 23 7pm to 8pm Lost in the Library ATB/042 Seebohm Rowntree Building, University of York 23 ● FRIDAY 19 JUNE ● THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH FESTIVAL FOCUS DAY 10am to 11.15am Financial Austerity: Winners and losers Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 44 11.30am to 1.15pm The Future of Cities Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 44 2pm to 2.45pm How the Tories took Britain to the Brink Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 45 3.15pm to 4.45pm Growth, Innovation and Inequality Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 45 5.15pm to 6.30pm The Economy of Future and the Future of Economics Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 45 10am to 11.30am Words in Things St Lawrence’s Children’s Centre 72 1pm to 3pm Rethinking the Coinage of Roman Britain RCH/017 Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 28 2pm to 3.30pm Carnival Street Drumming Quad West 007, York St John University 49 5.30pm to 6.50pm Vanishing for the Vote: Yorkshire and beyond K/133, King’s Manor, University of York 38

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TIME EVENT VENUE PAGE 6.15pm to 7.15pm Music: A Child’s hidden language Berrick Saul, University of York 23 7pm Green Reactions Presents: Rubbish resources! The Basement, City Screen Picturehouse 66 7pm to 9pm Zombies in York Waterstones 61 7.15pm to 8.05 pm Was Waterloo a German Victory? K/133, King’s Manor, University of York 38 7.15pm to 8.30pm Perfect Parents and Perfect Husbands Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 59 7.30pm to 9.30pm Alan Barnes and David Newton in Concert National Centre for Early Music 50 ● SATURDAY 20 JUNE ● SURVEILLANCE, SNOWDEN AND SECURITY FESTIVAL FOCUS DAY 11am to 12.15pm Cracking the Code University of York 61 1pm to 2.30pm The Future of Cyber Security University of York 62 3pm to 4.30pm Surveillance, Snowden and Security University of York 62 4.45pm to 5.15pm Intelligence’s Role in Defending Europe University of York 62 5.30pm to 6.30pm Intelligence Gathering and the Media: Who to trust University of York 63 6.45pm to 8.15pm Crime and Terrorism University of York 63 9am to 4pm The 2015 Richard Hall Symposium K/133, King’s Manor, University of York 32 10am to 4pm Map Attack! York Explore Library Learning Centre 72 10am to 4pm Discovering Fishergate’s Secret Past Fishergate Postern Tower 31 11am to 4pm Meet the Millers Exhibition Holgate Windmill 20 12 noon to 12.50pm Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A strange romance Lakehouse Room, Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 54 1.15pm to 2.15pm Darwin: A Life in Poems Lakehouse Room, Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 54 2pm to 2.45pm Stories of the First World War The Garden Roon, Explore York Library 73 2pm Lost in the Garden of Forking Paths Fountains Lecture Theatre, York St John University 59 2pm to 3pm Eating and Drinking in Anglo-Saxon England All Saints Pavement 33 2.45pm to 3.45pm In the Family Way Lakehouse Room, Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 54 4.15pm to 5.15pm In Bed with the Queen Lakehouse Room, Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 55 6pm to 8pm Green Reactions Presents: Think green! (or not…) Berrick Saul Building, University of York 67 6.30pm to 8pm ‘The Woman With No Number’ Memorial Hall, St Peter’s School 39 ● SUNDAY 21 JUNE 10am to 4pm Discovering Fishergate’s Secret Past Fishergate Postern Tower 31 11am to 12 noon Waterloo: The battle York Castle Museum 39 11am to 3pm Map Attack! Explore York Library Learning Centre 72 11am to 4pm Meet the Millers Exhibition Holgate Windmill 20 12 noon to 2pm Citizen Four: Documentary screening Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 63 2pm to 3pm Let Me Play The Lion Too Blackbox, Theatre, Film and Television Building, 50 University of York 4pm to 5pm Einstein’s Dice and Schrödinger’s Cat Ron Cooke Hub, University of York 59 ● WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE 6pm to 9pm York Design Awards National Science Learning Centre 16

Secrets and Discoveries 9 LAUNCH NIGHT

Michael Morpurgo

The Mozart Question Fri 5 June, 7.30pm to 9pm York Minster Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622

In partnership with York Minster, author Michael Morpurgo is joined by actress Alison Reid, violinist Daniel Pioro and The Storyteller’s Ensemble. Together they interweave words and music, to tell his haunting tale of survival against the odds, set against the background of the Holocaust. Michael Foreman

10 yorkfestivalofideas.com CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER In Between: Poems Simon Pope on on York’s walls Walking as Art Agents of a Social World (production still) 2014 Simon Pope – Primary Curiouser and Curiouser Discover the complex and Tues 9 to Sun 21 June, daylight hours Thurs 11 June, 12.30pm to 1.30pm sometimes surprising relationship Snickets, passages and yards in York National Centre for Early Music between art, design, architecture Free. No ticket required. Free. No ticket required. and technology from poetry In 2014, nearly 18,000 people saw a Drawing on examples from his ‘walking chalked onto walls to art theft and sequence of poems by John Wedgwood work’ as well as more recent participatory looting, from Alexander McQueen Clarke, a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the projects, artist Simon Pope will talk about to the future of cities. University of Hull, stencilled, chalked and on how we can form new types of community posters in the York alleyways. This year, in through engaging with objects and physical response to popular demand, York Curiouser aspects of the city. Simon represented Wales will re-install the In Between collection at its inaugural exhibition at the Venice with an additional new poem about York’s Biennale in 2003 and has exhibited at venues medieval stained glass. nationally and internationally. This forms part of York Curiouser’s research and planning for 2016. 11 Secrets and Discoveries 11 CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER Art and Work in Art Theﬅ and Looting John Wedgwood Clarke: Conversation Through History Poetry reading Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Courtesy of Bahaus Archive, Berlin

Thurs 11 June, 6pm to 9pm Sat 13 June, 1.15pm to 2.15pm Sat 13 June, 2pm to 3pm Harper and Carr Shop Ron Cooke Hub, University of York K/111, King’s Manor Tickets: £3 Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free. No ticket required. Tickets available from the shop. 01904 322622 07752 211041 John Wedgwood Clarke, a Lecturer in Looting has been the motivation for some Creative Writing at the University of Hull, A discussion evening, led in part by researcher of the major conflicts throughout history. will be reading his new poem about York’s and writer Luke Layzelle. The event will aim Join art dealer, Ivan Lindsay, as he explores medieval stained glass and other pieces to initiate a conversation on the differences how the Romans pioneered the idea of about York and the Yorkshire landscape. Also and affinities between the work involved in ‘to the victor the spoils’. Discover how the included is work from his 2013 collection arts-based practice and wage labour. This Romans removed valuables from conquered Ghost Pot, described by Irish poet Bernard discussion will seek to discover the tensions territories to help pay for the army and then O’Donoghue as “a masterpiece that rewards that arise from the different ways artists and paraded them to humiliate the vanquished continual rereading” and selected by New non-artists experience, think, and talk about – behaviour that became a template that Writing North for Read Regional 2015. how they work. lasted some 2,000 years.

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Relics of the Reich Finding Poems on Walls: Random Acts A walking tour Creative Commons

Sun 14 June, 12 noon to 6.30pm Sat 13 June, 2.30pm to 3.30pm Sun 14 June, 12 noon to 1.30pm Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Please meet in the paved area in front of Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets the West Entrance to the Minster near the Random Acts is Channel 4’s short film strand 01904 322622 miniature model of York dedicated to the arts. It was founded in Free. No ticket required. 2011 to escape the conventions of arts Relics of the Reich by writer and presenter broadcasting and to expand its possibilities. Colin Philpott is the story of how Germany York Curiouser’s Co-Artistic Directors, Hazel We will be showing a selection of Past has dealt with the architectural legacy of its Colquhoun and Lara Goodband, will guide Random Acts film throughout the afternoon. Nazi past. Many of the buildings and sites you round In Between, the series of poems by We want to encourage creative practitioners associated with the Third Reich still exist. John Wedgwood Clarke, a Lecturer in Creative of all kinds to use the screen as a canvas. Join the author as he explores what has Writing at the University of Hull. The brief is deliberately broad: we’re after “bold expressions of creativity” and happened to them and what they tell us The poems are stencilled and chalked on the those could come from art, music, dance, about Germany today. walls of York’s hidden yards, snickets and animation, spoken word, performance, or passageways. some uncategorisable combination of the above. We will be showing a selection of past Random Acts film throughout the afternoon.

Secrets and Discoveries 13 CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER Europe 1600–1815 Secrets and Discoveries Turner, Ruskin, and the in 1000 Objects Selling Exhibition Pre-Raphaelites on Screen Museum, London. © Victoria and Albert Creative commons: vagueonthehow

Sun 14 June, 12 noon to 1pm Sun 14 June, 1pm to 6pm Sun 14 June, 1.30pm to 3pm Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free. No ticket required. Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622 01904 322622 Art and Creations from some of Yorkshire’s In 2015 the Victoria and Albert Museum best galleries, artists and designers, curated Two films released in the past year, Effie (V&A) will open galleries devoted to the art by Natalia Willmott: Gray and Mr Turner, dramatise the private and design of 17th and 18th century Europe. • Amanda Moon headwear lives of British artists. Join Susanna Avery- As a special preview before they open, lead • Sarah Knowles design Quash, National Gallery, Julie Sheldon, curator Lesley Miller will explore the process • Kim Oldﬁeld from Blossom Street Gallery Liverpool John Moores University, and of creating displays to engage 21st century • Emily Stubbs ceramics Suzanne Fagence Cooper, author of Effie audiences, reflecting on how changing ideas • Charmian Ottaway jewellery Gray, as they explore how artists and of Europe and its histories have shaped the • Julie Ann Smith design artworlds of the 19th century are presented current approach. • Kate Thorburn – “What Kate Loves” ceramics to the audiences of today. • Ben Croft from Hand & Machine • Alison Orr from In the vintage way • Natalia Willmott from L’Atelier

14 yorkfestivalofideas.com CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER Future Cities: How will Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Curating Savage Beauty: we live next? Culture and well-being Alexander McQueen © Catwalking Harlow Shalom Model: 13, S/S 1999 McQueen, No Alexander dress, Spray painted

Sun 14 June, 3.15pm to 4.15pm Sun 14 June, 5pm to 6.15pm Sun 14 June, 6.30pm to 7.30pm Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622 01904 322622 01904 322622

What might your city look like in 2065? Join founding Executive Director of Yorkshire Celebrating the extraordinary creative talent Imagining the city of the future has long Sculpture Park (YSP), Peter Murray, as he of one of the most innovative designers of been an inspiration for many architects, describes YSP’s activity and its contribution recent times, Alexander McQueen: Savage artists and designers. Through drawings, to the well-being of culture, communities Beauty is the first and largest retrospective novels and ﬁlms, urban futures have and individuals. YSP’s Head of Learning, of McQueen’s work to be presented in been depicted in many ways. Our future Janette Robinson, will share case studies on Europe. Join Claire Wilcox, Senior Curator, in the UK will be shaped by its cities. well-being and YSP’s Senior Curator Helen Victoria and Albert Museum and Professor in In this talk, Professor Nick Dunn from Pheby will Fashion Curation, London College of Fashion, Lancaster University will explore what new discuss the University of the Arts London, to hear more technologies and lifestyles may mean for our positive power about this exciting exhibition. cities. of art. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, in partnership with Swarovski, supported by American Express, with thanks to M•A•C Cosmetics, technology partner Samsung and made possible with the co-operation of Alexander McQueen, runs from 14 March – 2 August 2015. www.vam.ac.uk/savagebeauty

Secrets and Discoveries 15 CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER Medieval City: A canvas York Design Awards 2015 for contemporary art Presentation Event Artwork Nayan Kulkani ©BDP Discovering York Tues 16 June, 2pm to 4.30pm Wed 24 June, 6pm to 9pm Join us to discover more about the K159, King’s Manor National Science Learning Centre, great city of York through tours Free. No ticket required. University of York of hidden snickets, long-forgotten Free with ticket. Limited places available. buildings and professions, as A panel debate with: Apply to [email protected]. well as rediscovering Rowntrees • Hazel Colquhoun and Lara Goodband, through the voices of its workers. York Design Awards exist to promote York Curiouser’s Co-Artistic Directors Explore the secrets behind the • Nayan Kulkani, Multi-media Artist excellence in architectural design and conservation in the York local authority scenes of the museums and learn • John Oxley, Archaeologist, City of York what lies beneath our feet. Council area. Good sustainable design and • Michael White, University of York conservation support York’s special heritage • Claire Hind, York St John University and contribute to the well-being of its residents and visitors. Attend the 9th annual Chair: Kate Giles, University of York awards event and view

presentations of the 2015 winning schemes. 16 16 yorkfestivalofideas.com DISCOVERING YORK Rowntree York: 1000 Yorkwalk: Rowntree York Revealed memories uncovered Secret York tours Karin Serin Karin Serin

Weekdays for the duration of the Festival, Wed 10, Fri 12, Mon 15, Wed 17 and Thurs 11 June, 11am to 4pm Exhibition, 10am to 4pm Fri 19 June, 2.15pm 6pm to 7pm lecture Friargate Friends Meeting House and Tours start from Museum Gardens Gates, St Helen’s Church Rowntree Park, Richardson Street Museum Street Free. No ticket required. entrance Tickets: £6 Adults; £5 Students, children, Free. No ticket required. disabled, YHA, York Card holders. Discover recordings of those who helped www.yorkwalk.co.uk build the Rowntree brand, as the Rowntree Part of the York Remembers Rowntree 01904 622303 Society showcases the York Remembers Oral History project, which has uncovered Rowntree Oral History project. Explore the memories of Rowntrees from across the Discover another side of York as your guide project’s interactive web map and listen local community. Discover takes you to hidden ancient buildings off the to ofﬁce girls describing a wall-to-wall display of beaten track. factory life in the 1930s. In pictures in the Friargate the evening, join Executive Friends Meeting House and Director of the Rowntree listen to memories on an Society, Bridget Morris, audio post, near the Reading as she reﬂects on Rowntree’s Café at Rowntree Park. unique heritage.

Secrets and Discoveries 17 DISCOVERING YORK A Victorian Walk Rowntree York Heard Rowntree York Experienced through York Karin Serin Karin Serin

Fri 12 June, 2pm to 4pm Fri 12 June, 6pm to 7pm Sat 13 June, 11am to 3pm Tour starts from outside York Castle King’s Manor courtyard Mansion House Museum Free. No ticket required. Free. No ticket required. Tickets: £5 per person 01904 697979 Take a step back in time and hear about Would you have the skills to secure a job www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk Rowntree factory life over the decades at the Rowntree factory? Come and try out during a special outside broadcast. Listen some of the dexterity and psychometric tests In 2012 York Castle Museum upgraded its to recordings of people’s memories of that the Rowntree Society has recreated for Victorian Street to represent York in the Rowntree York in the 1930s and during the would-be employees at Rowntrees, based on 1880s. Now, with the help of a costumed Second World War, from former workers to original materials. Take on the challenge and guide, you can go out into York and see locals who remember the you are likely to discover those places and traces of Victorian York. smell of chocolate in the that it is far harder today As this is a long walk, please wear sensible city. Made for the York to do certain manual tasks footwear and advise when booking of any Remembers Rowntree in a ﬁxed amount of time mobility issues you may have. Oral History project, the than it was 50 years ago. interviews showcase the Rowntree legacy.

18 yorkfestivalofideas.com DISCOVERING YORK Unveiling the Secrets Professor Herring’s Behind the Scenes at York of the Museum Natural Hystery Archaeological Trust York Archaeological Trust

Sat 13 June and Wed 17 June, Sun 14 June, 2pm to 3pm and Tues 16 June, 10.30am to 12 noon and 2pm to 3.30pm 3.30pm to 4.30pm 2.30pm to 4pm Evening Star Theatre, National Railway Central York – start and ﬁnish in Museum 421 Huntington Road, YO31 9HT Museum Gardens, outside Yorkshire Museum Tickets: £4. jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/events Free tickets: www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk Free tickets: 01904 328473 01904 615505 01904 623568 www.york.ac.uk/lifelonglearning/festivalofideas A chance to visit the new York Archaeological As part of the ground-breaking collaboration He’s not a real professor, he’s not a Trust store for an insight into the work of between the National Railway Museum and real herring, but Professor Herring’s the curatorial department. This one-hour York Theatre Royal, a new production In Fog ‘#NaturalHystery’ will be a really different tour of the premises will highlight some and Falling Snow has been developed. Listen tour of York. From volcanoes and cholera to of the processes that go on behind the to the writers, directors and curators involved unicorns, the (mostly) scientiﬁc tales of the scenes and will give visitors the chance to to discover how they explored the hidden city will be revealed. see and handle some secrets of the last 200 years of railways in Are they all true archaeological treasures, York. though? not currently on public display. Includes a hot drink.

Secrets and Discoveries 19 DISCOVERING YORK Printing in Meet the Millers 18th Century York Exhibition

Graham K Cook The Art of Communication Tues 16 June, 4pm to 6pm Sat 20 and Sun 21 June, 11am to 4pm Communication is fundamental The walk will begin at The Old Palace, Holgate Windmill to the development of society Dean’s Park (behind the Minster) Tickets: Free to HWPS members; Adults £3; and cultural creation. Join Free tickets: http://bit.ly/1d9JwjE Children 5–18 £1. us to explore a variety of 01904 876565 communication methods Meet York millers past and present at Holgate including the nonsense of Lewis Printing in York began in the first decade of Windmill and learn about their lives and work Carroll, political spin, foreign the 14th century. This walk will explore York’s since 1770 in a new exhibition. Discover printing and publishing past, with an which miller built the mill, who made it language learning and music as a exhibition of early printed texts and a talk taller and who died from breathing in the voice for children. by specialists on the 18th century, by Adam flour dust. Also see the current millers in Smith and Kaley Kramer, from York St John action producing stone-ground flour in the University. traditional way.

20 20 yorkfestivalofideas.com THE ART OF COMMUNICATION Hidden Meanings in Who Holds the Secrets? The Three Minute Foreign Language Learning Thesis Competition 3MT®

Wed 10 June, 6.30pm to 8.30pm Thurs 11 June, 10am to 12 noon Fri 12 June, 10.30am to 2pm Berrick Saul Building, University of York J/P/001, James College, University of York LMB/002, Law and Management, Free tickets: http://millnetwork.org/events/ Free tickets: www.york.ac.uk/ University of York 01904 322650 lifelonglearning/festivalofideas Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 328473 01904 322622 Ros Mitchell of the University of Southampton explores a range of Who in a narrative is in possession of relevant Three Minute Thesis is the University of perspectives on what language learning information? Who holds the secrets? Is it York’s research communication competition. means in the UK, in today’s global and the main character? Is it the reader? Join PhD students from across the disciplines multilingual society. Come and be inspired Lizzi Linklater of the University of York, for have three minutes to communicate the to start, continue, or reﬂect on, your own a workshop exploring how writers build impact of their research. Come and take language learning, or to consider the role of characterisation and plot information into part as a member of the audience and hear language teaching in the UK today. their stories, and looking at those who hold about exciting research projects at York. the power. This is a practical workshop suitable for writers of any experience.

Secrets and Discoveries 21 THE ART OF COMMUNICATION Figured Windows: Creative Alice in Wonderland 150 Exploring Learning writing workshop Years On: The story of Alice Global Cultures York Minster East Rose window, by Paul Tomlin (http://bit.ly/1DMi7gs) used under CC BY 2.0

Sat 13 June, 10am to 1pm Sat 13 June, 4pm to 5.30pm Thurs 18 June, 10am to 4pm K/111, King’s Manor Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Quad South Hall, York St John University Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: http://bit.ly/1DrWfo9 01904 322622 01904 322622 01904 876565

York is a treasure trove of medieval It is 150 years since the publication of This event is for those involved in stained glass. In this workshop, poet John Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in international education of any sort, Wedgwood Clarke will encourage you to 1865, transforming attitudes to children’s whether school, further education or higher be inspired by the history and process of literature, childhood and nonsense. To education. glass-making in York to discover the way mark this, author Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Bring your research and ideas to an poems can shift from being transparent, to (Oxford), will be talking about his new Unconference to discuss the differences coloured and even opaque and secretive. book The Story of Alice (2015) with Hugh and similarities between Global learning Suitable for aged 18 years upwards. Haughton, editor of Alice’s Adventures in cultures. Wonderland (Penguin, 1998) and James Williams from the University of York. With Magic Lantern slides.

22 yorkfestivalofideas.com THE ART OF COMMUNICATION Mad Men and Bad Men Lost in the Library Music: A child’s hidden language Library books, by timetrax23 (http://bit. ly/1IsvTWt) used under CC BY-SA 2.0

Thurs 18 June, 6.30pm to 8pm Thurs 18 June, 7pm to 8pm Fri 19 June, 6.15pm to 7.15pm Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Room ATB/042, Seebohm Rowntree Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Building, University of York University of York 01904 322622 Free tickets: www.york.ac.uk/ Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets lifelonglearning/festivalofideas 01904 322622 Join author and journalist Sam Delaney as he 01904 328473 discusses his book Mad Men and Bad Men: How does a child who cannot speak express What Happened When British Politics Met Offering an introduction to the information their innermost feelings? Musician and Advertising. The book is a behind-the-scenes preserved by books as objects and how this Jessie’s Fund founder Lesley Schatzberger tour of the election campaigns of the last can be used, this talk considers the secrets explains how music, by opening gateways to four decades. Sam questions how much lost to history through the destruction of communication, can be so much more than inﬂuence the adman has over politicians book collections. The discoveries to be made an art form. and, most importantly, asks whether any of from surviving texts illuminate not only the these political ads actually make a difference stories of these individual objects but also to the way people vote. reveal wider stories, which would otherwise remain lost.

Secrets and Discoveries 23 SCIENCE OUT OF THE LAB Science Out of the Lab Goalball Taster Session - Department of Culture, Media and Sport (http:// Goalball team practice at the ParalympicsGB Training Camp, by David Poultney for GOC bit.ly/1aV8SAp) used under CC BY-NC 2.0

Science Out of the Lab Science is all around us in our Fri 29 and Sat 30 May, 10am to 3pm Sat 6 June, 12noon to 3pm everyday lives in unexpected St Sampson’s Square Foss Sports Hall, York St John University ways. From the secrets of penalty Free. No ticket required. Free. No ticket required. kicks to how drones are changing 01904 876565 Come along to this hands-on, interactive our world, ﬁnd out more in these event, which will bring local scientists and Goalball is a Paralympic sport primarily for exciting science events. their research out onto the streets of York. people with visual impairments. However, This is an opportunity to talk face-to-face anyone can play, as each player wears with scientists who work to improve the blackout shades. The aim of the game is to world we live in. bowl the ball into the opposition goal. The defending team members attempt to block the ball by listening to bells in the ball. Join Martin Bond for an opportunity to try out a new sport and to ask See also The Theory of Everything, pages the players and coaches 55-59, Secrets of the Dead, pages 60-61 and questions. Earth, Wind and Fire, pages 64-67 24 24 yorkfestivalofideas.com PARTNER

The Centre for Chronic Diseases and Disorders (C2D2) is delighted to be sponsoring York Festival of Ideas for the fourth year in succession, and strongly supports its mission to ‘educate, entertain and inspire’. Based at the University of York, C2D2 exists to support, promote and maximise the beneﬁt of research into chronic diseases and disorders, which affect billions of people worldwide. C2D2, which is supported by a Wellcome Trust ‘Institutional Strategic Support Fund’ award and the University of York, draws on the extensive expertise at York, covering research areas from pathogen biology and neuroscience to medical humanities.

Secrets and Discoveries 25 SCIENCE OUT OF THE LAB Secrets of Penalty Kicks Drone Society

Revealing the Ancient World Tues 9 June, 10am to 11.30am and Tue 16 June, 7.35pm to 8.15pm Discover the secrets of Egyptian 4pm to 5.30pm Berrick Saul Building, University of York mummies and learn about the Foss Sports Hall, York St John University Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Ancient Greeks from their ten Free tickets: http://bit.ly/1a2mLMv 01904 322622 unique personality traits. Find out 01904 876565 whether Sparta was really odd, Join Andy Miah of the University of and rediscover Rome through its Join Charlotte Elwell and Sophie James of Salford as he takes you through the York St John University, for an interactive technological changes in drone design that coinage and the reign of its ﬁrst demonstration using the latest eye-tracking are changing our world. In this lively talk Emperor, Augustus. technology. Explore the secrets behind and demonstration, discover more about performing football penalty kicks and test wearable drones and drone artists, and your skills as both goalkeeper and penalty explore why, if 2014 was the year of the taker. This event is suitable for children ‘selﬁe’, 2015 is the year of the ‘dronie’. over seven years with parental supervision. 26 26 yorkfestivalofideas.com REVEALING THE ANCIENT WORLD Introducing the Ancient Sparta: How odd? Egyptian Mummies: Ancient Greeks Secrets and discoveries Arts, Harrogate Borough Council © Harrogate Museums and

Tues 9 June, 6.30pm to 7.30pm Wed 10 June, 6pm to 7pm Wed 10 June, 7.30pm to 8.30pm K/133, King’s Manor, University of York K/133, King’s Manor, University of York K/133, King’s Manor, University of York Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622 01904 322622 01904 322622

Who were the Ancient Greeks? They gave Ancient Sparta has given us three English Join Joann Fletcher of the University of York’s us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational words: spartan, laconic and helot. No Department of Archaeology as she reveals science and the joke. But what was it that other ancient Greek city apart from Athens some of the new discoveries and hidden enabled them to achieve so much? In this plays such a prominent a role in the long secrets uncovered during her work as part of talk, Edith Hall from King’s College London development of the Classical tradition. But the University’s ‘Mummy Research Group’. identiﬁes ten personality traits that she was Sparta really different, or odd? In this shows to be unique to the Ancient Greeks. talk, former Professor of Greek Culture at the Join Edith as she explores a civilisation of University of Cambridge, Paul Cartledge, will astounding complexity. draw on his 40 years of work on Sparta to explore this question.

Secrets and Discoveries 27 REVEALING THE ANCIENT WORLD Augustus: From Rethinking the Coinage revolutionary to emperor of Roman Britain

Eoforwic: A Celebration of Anglian-era York Fri 12 June, 6pm to 7pm Fri 19 June, 1pm to 3pm There are few physical remains K133, King’s Manor, University of York RCH/017, Ron Cooke Hub, University of of Eoforwic – Anglian-era York – Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets York but it had a far-reaching legacy. 01904 322622 Free tickets: 01904 328473 www.york.ac.uk/ Experts will shed new light on lifelonglearning/festivalofideas latest discoveries which help Historian Adrian Goldsworthy tells the to increase our understanding story of how Augustus came to power as We can discover a great deal about the past a teenager and rose to become Rome’s of this important period in the from coins, but within archaeology they city’s past. ﬁrst and greatest emperor – and the most are often marginalised and misunderstood. powerful man in the world. Archaeologist Barry Crump has attempted to rethink coin use by applying ideas from literary theory, linguistics and philosophy. In this talk, Barry will tackle the broader aspects of Roman Britain, coinage and Romanisation, before presenting his ideas, data and 26 discoveries. 28 yorkfestivalofideas.com EOFORWIC York’s Finest: Mapping Anglian York The Art of Stone in The Ormside Bowl Anglian York York Minster - JARROLDS P46 VINE SCROLL(http:// bit.ly/1Knzre9)used under CC BY-SA 2.0

Wed 10 June, 2pm to 3pm Wed 10 June, 6.30pm to 7.30pm Thurs 11 June, 6pm to 6.50pm Yorkshire Museum The Marriott Room, Explore York Library K133, King’s Manor, University of York Tickets: £5, Museum admission applies Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 697979 01904 322622 01904 322622

A special chance to discover the story of How do you map something you cannot see? Jane Hawkes of the University of York this Anglian bowl, which became a Viking Join researcher Ailsa Mainman to hear how will explore the innovative nature of the drinking vessel. Dating from the mid-eighth archaeological, antiquarian and historical public art of stone sculpture, produced in century, the Ormside Bowl is one of the data was used to put together a map of and around York in the seventh to ninth most celebrated treasures of the Yorkshire Anglian York for York’s new Historic centuries. Join her as she considers the Museum. Take the opportunity to see it up Town Atlas. impact of its coloured appearance, varied close, and handle other Anglian and Viking sculptural forms and distinct iconographies. artefacts from the Museum’s collections.

Secrets and Discoveries 29 EOFORWIC Anglo-Saxon Astronomy Back to the Beer-Hall: Biomolecular Codicology: More Anglo-Saxon poetry The York Gospels © Chapter of York: reproduced by kind permission

Thurs 11 June, 7.15pm to 8.05pm Thurs 11 June, 8pm Fri 12 June, 7.30pm to 8.20pm K/133, King’s Manor, University of York Duke of York, King’s Square K/133, King’s Manor, University of York Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free. No ticket required. Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622 01904 322622 Following the great success of last year’s What was life like as an Anglo-Saxon ‘Beer and Beowulf’ event, we invite you back Parchment – made from animal skins – was astronomer? Join Martin Lunn, former to the beor-sele or beer-hall of the Duke the medium of medieval Europe. Thousands curator of astronomy at the Yorkshire of York pub. Here, you can enjoy another of these skins survive today, holding Museum, as he delves into the secrets of evening listening to Anglo-Saxon poetry an untapped reservoir of biomolecular astronomers 1,500 years ago in the so-called and drinking ‘Eoforwic Ale’ – a beer brewed evidence. Join Sarah Fiddyment, of the ‘Dark Ages’. specially for the Festival of Ideas from an old University of York’s BioArCh research facility, Anglo-Saxon recipe. as she discusses a technique she developed to analyse parchment proteins and DNA. Discover how the technique is helping unearth the secrets of parchments like the 11th century York Gospels.

30 yorkfestivalofideas.com EOFORWIC Discovering Fishergate’s Eoforwic North Yorkshire The Coinage of Eoforwic Secret Past Coach Tour York Archaelogical Trust Friends of York Walls York Museums Trust

Sat 13 to Sun 14 June and Sat 20 to Mon 15 June, 1pm to 4pm Mon 15 June, 2pm to 3pm Sun 21 June, 10am to 4pm Departs Memorial Gardens, off Leeman Yorkshire Museum Fishergate Postern Tower Road, York Tickets: £5, Museum admission also applies Free. No ticket required. Tickets: £12 jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/events 01904 697979 01904 615505 www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk Take a rare opportunity to visit York’s Fishergate Postern Tower. The Friends A guided visit to Scrayingham church, Anglian York – known as Eoforwic – was one of York Walls have teamed up with York identiﬁed in 2009 as incorporating fabric of the richest and most important towns in Museums Trust to open up the characterful dating from before the end of the eighth England. Come and discover what York’s Tudor building for two weekends and century. Your visit will be followed by a hidden coins reveal about life, kings and display some key Anglian-period artefacts brief stop in Stamford Bridge, the site of religion in the early medieval town. The talk from the local area. On the ﬁrst a decisive battle of 1066 just before the will include a handling session. Saturday afternoon visitors can Battle of Hastings. Outdoor clothing and handle a unique ring, and on the sturdy footwear recommended. Some following Saturday, fascinating road crossings will be Anglian coins. involved.

Secrets and Discoveries 31 EOFORWIC Eoforwic, Jorvik and Finds from Fishergate The 2015 Richard Hall the Viking Centre Symposium Robinson,(http://bit.ly/1aRFz1f) Jorvik Viking Centre, by John used under CC BY 2.0

Mon 15 June, 6pm to 7pm Thurs 18 June, 5.30pm to 7pm Sat 20 June, 9am registration, Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, Fossgate Yorkshire Museum 10am to 4pm Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Tickets: £12.50 includes Museum admission K/133, King’s Manor, University of York 01904 322622 01904 697979 Tickets: £25 Adult (£20 student, concessions, www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk Friends of YAT) 01904 615505 Peter Addyman, former Director of the jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/events York Archaeological Trust, describes the Excavated in Fishergate and stored for many archaeological search for Eoforwic (Anglian years in the basement of Mecca Bingo, In 2014 the JORVIK Viking Centre marked York) and Jorvik (Scandinavian/Viking York) the Fishergate archive sheds new light three decades of welcoming visitors to the during the 1970s and 1980s. Hear how on Anglian York. This exciting archive is site of the Coppergate dig, an undertaking excavations in Coppergate revealed Viking- available for the very ﬁrst time for the public that revolutionised approaches to Viking-era Age structures, leading to the creation of to see and handle. England. But where do we stand in 2015? This York’s world-famous conference brings together JORVIK Viking Centre heritage professionals and – but eclipsing the researchers to explore early story of the medieval research. Anglian period.

32 yorkfestivalofideas.com EOFORWIC Eating and Drinking in Guerilla Signs: In search Eoforwic Ale Anglo-Saxon England of Anglian York

Sat 20 June, 2pm to 3pm Eoforwic was the name for York during the Using an authentic Anglo-Saxon recipe, All Saints, Pavement four and a half centuries between Roman Leeds Brewery is brewing some beer Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets York and the Viking city. This period, the – Eoforwic Ale – for York Festival of Ideas. 01904 322622 Anglian (or Anglo-Saxon) era was long, yet It will be on sale throughout the Festival there are few visible reminders of it in the at the Duke of York pub on King’s Square, Debby Banham, a medieval historian at the modern city. Guerilla signs made by the York, and will also be available at the University of Cambridge, explores what we Friends of York’s Anglian Era will appear Back to the Beer-Hall: More Anglo-Saxon can ﬁnd out about Anglo-Saxon food and along the city walls and elsewhere near the Poetry evening taking place in the pub on drink, and how. What crops were grown? city centre, to highlight the buried evidence Thursday 11 June. What animals did people keep? And how and lost treasures of that time. did they process their food into meals? In this talk, Debby will explore these questions based on written information, archaeological remains and artworks. There will also be a chance to taste some Anglo-Saxon beer and bread!

Secrets and Discoveries 33 BEHIND THE LENS Looking Back LUMA Film Festival through the Lens Exhibition Yorkshire Film Archive

Behind the Lens Go behind the lens to discover Throughout the Festival Thurs 11 June, 7pm all about film and the film- Visit: http://bit.ly/1Cmyuwr Norman Rea Gallery making process with industry 01904 876565 Free. No ticket required. professionals and greats. The Yorkshire Film Archive will be inviting The LUMA Film Festival celebrates the With creative workshops, film audiences to respond to the filmed heritage work of students at the University of York’s festivals, screenings, storyboard of the city with a daily online ‘film reveal’. Department of Theatre, Film and Television. exhibitions and insights into Be a curator, interpret the material, create a This year, the Festival organisers are co- screen adaptations, there’s new story around the footage. What does it operating with the Norman Rea Gallery to something for everyone! mean to you in terms of people, place and put on an exhibition exploring the concept stories? art and mood-boards for LUMA’s gala- selection of films. Explore the exhibition at a wine reception and discover the creative development process behind the See also Channel 4 Random Acts, page 13 finished films. and Citizen Four, page 63 34 34 yorkfestivalofideas.com BEHIND THE LENS Andrew Davies in LUMA Film Festival L’image Manquante: Conversation The Missing Picture Commons Public Domain Mr Darcy Wikimedia

Fri 12 June, 6pm to 7.30pm Sat 13 and Sun 14 June, 11am to 8pm Sun 14 June, 6pm to 9pm RCH/037, Ron Cooke Hub, Theatre, Film and Television Building, The Basement, City Screen Picturehouse University of York University of York Tickets: £5 (£4 for NUS Cardholders) Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: lumafilmfestival.com 01904 322622 Using animation, archival footage Celebrate the work of students in the and narration, The Missing Picture is a Jane Moody Memorial Event University of York’s Department of Theatre, documentary that recreates the atrocities Award-winning British screenwriter and Film and Television (TFTV) at the LUMA Film committed by the Khmer Rouge – followers BAFTA Fellow, Andrew Davies, will discuss his Festival. Come and enjoy film screenings, of the Communist Party of Kampuchea celebrated screen adaptations, including work workshops, master classes and get a glimpse – in Cambodia in 1975–79. The death of currently in development – from Pride and of the future of filmmaking. 2,000,000 people and the destruction of a Prejudice to House of Cards, from War and To find out more visit us on country is a secret that The Missing Picture Peace to A Poet in New York. In conversation facebook.com/lumafilmfestival poetically and emotionally presents to the with Judith Buchanan, Andrew will explore the lumafilmfestival.com audience. The discovery of not art of literary adaptation, Jane Austen and the @lumafilmfest just horror, but of heart, fight business of film- and pride. making.

Secrets and Discoveries 35 HIDDEN HISTORIES

Dictators for Dinner A New History of the Central Powers at War World War 1 postcard showing the Central Powers monarchs, Wikimedia Commons, Hidden Histories Discover the chequered history Wed 10 June, 12.30pm to 2.30pm Sat 13 June, 6.30pm to 7.30pm of our favourite hot beverages Belmont Room, Bettys Tea Room, York K/133, King’s Manor and what Stalin ate for dinner. Tickets: £12.95 (includes Bettys cream tea) Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Explore the secrets of the Castle [email protected] 01904 322622 Howard pyramid and the Battle of 01904 659142 Historian Alexander Watson retells the story Waterloo. Join us as experts reveal of the First World War from the perspective some history’s best-kept secrets. What do dictators eat? Join authors Victoria Clark and Melissa Scott as they discuss their of its instigators and losers – Germany and book Dictators’ Dinners: The Bad Taste Guide Austria-Hungary. Alexander explores why to Entertaining Tyrants, an investigation into the Central Powers’ peoples fought so hard what some of the world’s most notorious for over four years, and he explains how 20th-century despots have enjoyed most at suffering and violence broke their states, their dinner table, and with whom. Here we shattered their societies, and set them on a learn of their foibles, their eccentricities and path to totalitarian dictatorship, a second, See also Art, Theft and Looting through their constant terror of being even bloodier, war, and genocide. History, page 12 and Relics of the Reich, poisoned. page 13 36 36 yorkfestivalofideas.com HIDDEN HISTORIES Waterloo: Followers Secrets of the Pyramid What’s New with of fashion the Vikings? Portrait Juana Smith, Wikimedia Commons, public domain Castle Howard Pyramid

Sun 14 June, 11am to 12 noon Mon 15 June, 10.30am to 12 noon Tues 16 June, 7pm to 8.30pm Castle Museum Castle Howard Explore York Library Learning Centre, Free. To book a place call 01904 697979 Free tickets: castlehoward.co.uk Museum Street Museum admission applies. 01653 648621 Tickets: £5 Tickets from any Explore Library or www.feelinginspired.co.uk Wives used to follow their ofﬁcer husbands Join Castle Howard curator Dr Christopher to battle and at Waterloo many civilians Ridgway for this walking tour and uncover Steve Ashby of the University of York will watched from the sidelines. Discover what the secrets of the pyramid which pierces present recent research undertaken at York an elegant lady of 1815 might have been the Castle Howard landscape, with a rare on the Vikings in England, Scotland and wearing. See real dresses and accessories opportunity to glimpse inside. Take in the Scandinavia. Come and discover more about from the Museum’s collection. ancient lime avenue and pass by the striking Viking camps, forts and war cemeteries, as gatehouse before approaching the pyramid well as trade, commerce and migration. Steve and disappearing inside. The walk takes is a regular in the media on all things Viking in uneven terrain and is and recently recorded ‘Behind the Scenes’ for not suitable for those with the History Channel’s Vikings drama. limited mobility.

Secrets and Discoveries 37 HIDDEN HISTORIES The Abuse of Hot Liquors Vanishing for the Vote: Was Waterloo a Yorkshire and beyond German Victory? kr/p/dMDCF7) used under CC BY 2.0 Afternoon Tea by Ampliﬁed Group (htt://ﬂic. ‘Beyond the Reach of the Census’, ‘Reliable’ comic postcard, 1911, Jill Liddington collection

Thurs 18 June, 12.30pm to 2.30pm Fri 19 June, 5.30pm to 6.50pm Fri 19 June, 7.15pm to 8.05pm Belmont Room, Bettys Tea Room, York K/133, King’s Manor K/133, King’s Manor Tickets: £12.95 (includes a Bettys cream tea) Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets [email protected] 01904 322622 01904 322622 01904 659142 Jill Liddington’s book Vanishing for the vote Join Brendan Simms of the University of BBC Food historian and University of tells the story of what happened on census Cambridge as he describes how the Battle York research associate, Annie Gray, will night, Sunday 2 April 1911. The Liberal of Waterloo was decided by the Second explore the rich history of three interlinked government, which still denied women the Light Battalion, King’s German Legion, which beverages. She’ll show how tea and vote, ordered every household to comply was given the deceptively simple task of feminism go hand-in-hand, talk about the with its census requirement. Suffragette defending the Haye Sainte farmhouse – a perceived dangers of coffee consumption organisations urged women to boycott this crucial crossroads on the way to Brussels. if you’re a man, and chart the path of census. Jill explores the boycott in York and Brendan argues that their actions decided chocolate from rich drink to across the three Ridings. the most inﬂuential battle in European cheap confectionery. history.

38 yorkfestivalofideas.com HIDDEN HISTORIES ‘The Woman With Waterloo: The battle No Number’ Iby Knill, by David Morris David Stuttard Parthenon

Sat 20 June, 6.30pm to 8pm Sun 21 June, 11am to 12 noon Memorial Hall, St Peter’s School Castle Museum Free tickets: stpetersyork.eventbrite.co.uk Free. Museum admission applies. For enquiries contact [email protected]. It is 200 years since the Battle of Waterloo. This talk will give an overview of the battle Holocaust survivor Iby Knill tells the story of and the strategy involved. her family as the threat from the Nazis closed around them in occupied Europe. Eventually, she was captured and sent to Auschwitz. Now, aged 91, she gives her account of these traumatic years.

Secrets and Discoveries 39 CULTURE AND IDENTITY Sisters: A preview Artistic Censorship in Repressive Regimes David Stuttard Parthenon Culture and Identity Join us for a series of events that Sat 6 June, 4pm to 4.50pm Sat 6 June, 5pm to 6.15pm explores the nature of national National Centre for Early Music National Centre for Early Music identity and its alignment to the Free tickets: www.ncem.co.uk Free tickets: www.ncem.co.uk creation (sometimes artificial) of 01904 658338 01904 658338 states, the restrictions placed on Iranian sisters Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat Panel discussion with: artistic freedom of expression by have become world-renowned singers • Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat, Iranian singers repressive regimes, xenophobia despite intense restrictions on female and suspicion, and the nature • Deeyah Khan, Emmy award-winning musicians after the 1979 revolution in Iran. film-maker and perception of cultural This film tells their remarkable personal story imperialism. • Natalia Koliada, co-founder of Belarus as they bravely preserve Persian musical Free Theatre traditions. • Lisa Peschel, Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York. *Mahsa and Marjan will also be performing live in concert at 7.30pm on Sat 6 June – 40 see page 46 for details 40 yorkfestivalofideas.com CULTURE AND IDENTITY The Yellow Peril: Baghdad: City of peace, Scepticism and Tolerance The Rise of Chinaphobia city of blood in Pre-Modern Islam

Wed 10 June, 5.30pm to 6.30pm Fri 12 June, 6pm to 6.50pm Fri 12 June, 7.15pm to 8.05pm Music Research Centre, University of York Berrick Saul Building, University of York Berrick Saul Building, University of York Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622 01904 322622 01904 322622

Historian Sir Christopher Frayling discusses Join journalist, historian and travel writer, There is a long tradition of both scepticism his book, The Yellow Peril: The Rise of Justin Marozzi, as he discusses Baghdad – a and tolerance in pre-modern societies of Chinaphobia. He traces the origins of popular city of Jews, Christians and Muslims from its the Islamic world, present in their classical prejudices about China – the Chinese at foundation by the Abbasid caliph Al Mansur literatures. Join linguist Bruce Wannell as he home and abroad – through films, plays, in the eighth century to Saddam Hussein in explores these themes. pantomimes, music-hall, popular fiction and the 21st. Drawing on his personal experiences especially the character of Dr Fu Manchu who of Baghdad, Justin discusses some of the first appeared in 1912. most colourful men and women in Baghdad’s 1,300-year history.

Secrets and Discoveries 41 CULTURE AND IDENTITY Agincourt 1415: The Map of Russia, The US and Truth and myth 15th–19th Centuries the Rest of Us WikimediaCommons Battle of Agincourt Public Domain

Mon 15 June, 7.15pm to 8.05pm Tues 16 June, 5pm to 6pm Wed 17 June, 6pm to 7pm K/133, King’s Manor Berrick Saul Building, University of York RCH/037, Ron Cooke Hub, Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets University of York 01904 322622 01904 322622 Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622 Anne Curry, the world’s leading expert on Elena Kashina of the University of York the Battle of Agincourt, shares her research discusses the geographical evolution of the In a review of America’s inﬂuence since into the most famous English victory of the Russian state between the 16th and the 19th 1945, author Peter Conrad explores how the Middle Ages, which celebrates its 600th centuries. Elena explains the circumstances of US changed from the world’s saviour to an anniversary this year. Was this really the the acquisitions of the territories, drawing on imperial bully and then dwindled to become moment the V-sign was invented by English artefacts from the collections of the Moscow a mere entertainer, and asks whether we and Welsh archers to show they had won the Kremlin Museums to illustrate the discovery are all Americans now. This discussion will day? What really happened, and why does it of new lands and the uncovering of their range from politics to movies and music, continue to mean so much today? secrets. concluding with a look ahead to a world that may soon perhaps be ‘de-Americanised’.

42 yorkfestivalofideas.com THE FUTURE FOR DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH Universities & Social/ The New “Alpha Territory” Solidarity Economy Knightsbridge, by Henry ly/1GhﬁVq) used under David Stuttard Parthenon The Future for Lawford (http://bit.

Democracy and CC BY 2.0 Economic growth York Festival of Ideas in Tues 9 June, 5.30pm to 6.30pm Wed 10 June, 4pm to 5.30pm association with the Joseph Quad South Hall, York St John University ARRC Auditorium, ARRC Building, Rowntree Foundation brings Free tickets: http://bit.ly/1Cmyuwr University of York together a range of world- 01904 876565 Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets class economists, business 01904 322622 York St John University is leading a three leaders, policymakers and year project into the ‘social and solidarity Richard Webber of King’s College London commentators to explore economy’ along with four international applies Thomas Piketty’s arguments in the the future of democracy and universities. Join Margaret Meredith and book Capital to understand the lifestyles of economic growth. Catalina Quiroz as they discuss the values London’s super-rich. Richard examines the driving this people-centred economy and impact of their wealth on neighbourhoods examine the ethos and role of the University which were previously the preserve of in its teaching, research traditional elites. Through an analysis of and practice. Highgate, he considers to what extent we are observing new forms of elite formation.

With the support of the Erasmus Mundus programme of the European Union CURB Annual Public Lecture43 2015 Secrets and Discoveries 43 THE FUTURE FOR DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH What are the Demands Financial Austerity: The Future of Cities of Democracy? Winners and losers

Wed 10 June, 6.45pm to 8.15pm Fri 19 June, 10am to 11.15am Fri 19 June, 11.30am to 1.15pm Central Hall, University of York Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622 01904 322622 01904 322622

Join Nobel prize-winning economist and Introduction by Shaun Rafferty, Chief Keynote addresses by Sir Mark Walport, philosopher, Amartya Sen, as he discusses the Operating Officer, Joseph Rowntree Government Chief Scientific Adviser and demands of democracy. Amartya is currently Foundation. Benita Matofska, founder of Compare Professor of Economics and Philosophy Keynote address by Katrine Marçal, author and Share the world’s first comparison at Harvard University. He has made of Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner. marketplace of the Sharing Economy. contributions to welfare economics, social Followed by a panel discussion with: Followed by a panel discussion with: choice theory and to moral and political • Charlotte Alldritt, City Growth Commission philosophy. He was awarded the Nobel • Patrick Minford, Cardiff University • Steve Hughes, York Business Improvement Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998. • Zoe Williams, The Guardian • Gulcin Ozkan, University of York District Project Organised by School of Politics, Economics • Michael Keith, Oxford Martin School and Philosophy, University of York. Chair: Jonathan Derbyshire, Prospect Magazine Chair: Julia Unwin, JRF

44 yorkfestivalofideas.com THE FUTURE FOR DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH How the Tories took Growth, Innovation The Economy of the Future Britain to the Brink and Inequality and the Future of Economics The Guardian

Fri 19 June, 2pm to 2.45pm Fri 19 June, 3.15pm to 4.45pm Fri 19 June, 5.15pm to 6.30pm Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622 01904 322622 01904 322622

Join award-winning Guardian columnist Keynote address by John Kay, economist and Keynote address by Richard Davies, PollyToynbee and David Walker,former author of Other People’s Money. Economics Editor, The Economist. director of public reporting at the Audit Followed by a panel discussion with: Followed by a panel discussion: Commission, as they argue that the Cameron • John Kay • Grant Fitzner, Centre for Workforce coalition used the ﬁnancial crisis as a pretext • Kate Pickett, University of York Intelligence for realising a longstanding political ambition • Euan Munro, Aviva • Ian Brinkley, The Work Foundation, to dismantle the postwar welfare and • Mike Wickens, University of York • Euan Munro, Aviva social policy settlement, going further than • Karen Mumford, University of York Margaret Thatcher dared. Blending statistics and reportage, they ask whether these Chair: Richard Davies damaging changes are now irreversible.

Secrets and Discoveries 45

Family Weekend on Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat Campus – 13 to 14 June Mark Woodward

On Heslington East at the University of York for a series of events for all ages including live music and hands-on activities.

● Saturday 13 June • LUMA Film Festival, 11am to 8pm, Performance page 35 JoinWhile us the for ancienta plethora Greeks of events were Sat 6 June, 7.30pm • Goodfest, 12.30pm to 9pm, page 71 throughoutat the mercy the of theirFestival Gods from who National Centre for Early Music • Festival Fringe Family Fun Afternoon, concertsruled through to plays order – there and chaos,is Tickets: £13 (Concessions £11, Students £5) 1.30pm to 4.30pm page 71 somethingthe Romans for carved people their of allown ages NCEM Box Office 01904 658338 andorderly interests. world, eliminating all • Curiouser and Curiouser: Arts, Sisters Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat are two Architecture and Design Weekend opposing chaos. But was it really brave and inspiring musicians from Iran. Part One, 12 noon to 5.30pm, page 12, that straightforward? Revealing 13, 22 and 56 Listen to them sing and play plucked setar the Ancient World explores how and frame drum, as they preserve Persian ● Sunday 14 June these societies tried to overcome musical traditions. What’s remarkable, given • Curiouser and Curiouser: Part Two, chaos and how they coped when their international acclaim, 12 noon to 7.30pm, pages 13-15 all order was lost. is that under Iranian • Big Telescopes Family Day, 11am to Islamic law they are 5pm, page 56-57 prohibited from performing publicly at home. This event is In town already? Discover what other part of Songlines Encounters family activities are taking place in the 4city6 centre, see Sparks pages 71-72 Festival On Tour 2015. 46 yorkfestivalofideas.com PERFORMANCE The Poet and the Spy Discover The Armed Man: Organ Vespers A Mass for Peace

Tues 9 June, 1pm to 2pm Tues 9 June, 7.30pm to 9.30pm Wed 10 June, 6.30pm to 7pm St Helen’s Church Central Methodist Church, St Saviourgate St Helen’s Church Free. No ticket required, but a retiring Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free. No ticket required, but a retiring collection will be taken at the end of 01904 322622 collection will be taken at the end of the service. the service. Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man weaves in Enjoy poems by Shakespeare and Sir Fulke inspirational ideas ranging from Lancelot Organ Vespers comes from the German Greville – 16th century soldier, courtier and and Guinevere to Hiroshima. Guy Wilson, Lutheran tradition. This service comprises statesman. Among the poems performed are who selected and wrote texts for it, will three or four selected organ pieces together some of Greville’s Caelica poems and texts introduce the work. Listen or join in at this with a hymn and a reading or poem, all on set as lute-songs by English Renaissance open rehearsal of York Musical Society, led a common theme. This service will take the composer John Dowland. Songs are by Conductor, David Pipe. Festival theme of ‘Secrets and Discoveries’ as performed by lutenist-singer Helen Atkinson its inspiration. and the poems by Richard Rastall, a specialist in early modern English music. St Helen’s St Helen’s Church Church

Order and Chaos 47 PERFORMANCE University of York The Whispering Road Kathakali: Family concert Jazz Orchestra

Wed 10 June, 7.30pm to 9.45pm Fri 12 June 7.30pm to 9.30pm Sat 13 June, 6.30pm to 8.30pm National Centre for Early Music National Centre for Early Music National Centre for Early Music Tickets: £12 (Concessions £10, Students £3) Tickets: £13 (Concessions £11, Students £5) Tickets: £13 (Concessions £11, NCEM Box Office 01904 658338 NCEM Box Office 01904 658338 Young People £5, Family Ticket £28) NCEM Box Office 01904 658338 The University of York Jazz Orchestra Nick Hennessey, Vicki Swan and Jonny presents arrangements of the music of The Dyer combine as ‘Serious Kitchen’ to Take a sleeping princess, her evil step-mother Blue Notes – who were 1960s London-based create a brand new show. Drawing on the and a handsome prince. Add the excitement, South African musical exiles – made for a rich heritage of Scandinavian myths and spectacle and bright colours of India and new ensemble: The Dedication Orchestra. stories, The Whispering Road blends Nick you have ‘Hima Sundari’, a story similar to Hennessey’s spellbinding storytelling with Snow White, told through the ancient art of Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer’s experience in Kathakali – Indian dance drama. the Swedish folk music scene.

48 yorkfestivalofideas.com PERFORMANCE Blue Note: 75 years A Journey through James Carnival Street Drumming of the ﬁnest in jazz Joyce and Irish Song

Tues 16 June, 6.30pm to 7.30pm Tuesday 16 June, 6.30pm to 7.30pm Fri 19 June, 2pm to 3.30pm Music Research Centre, University of York St Helen’s Church Quad West 007, York St John University Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: http://bit.ly/1FknZ2J 01904 322622 01904 322622 01904 876565

Writer and jazz producer Richard Havers Gerry Smyth and Matthew Campbell take Fancy learning to play the drums Brazilian discusses Blue Note Records, the iconic jazz you on a short trip through the history of style? Join Chris Bartram and Lee Higgins, label. An illustrated talk featuring music that Irish music, guided by that most musical of from the International Centre of Community tells the story of the label. authors, James Joyce. Starting at Finnegans Music, who will introduce you to carnival Wake and ﬁnishing with selections from a rhythms of Brazil through a hands-on new version of Joyce’s little-known poetry drumming workshop. This session is open book of 1907, Chamber Music. to 25 participants, no previous experience necessary. St Helen’s Church

Secrets and Discoveries 49 PERFORMANCE Alan Barnes and David Let Me Play the Lion Too In Fog and Falling Snow Newton in Concert

Fri 19 June, 7.30pm to 9.30pm Sun 21 June, 2pm to 3pm Fri 26 June to Sat 11 July, 7.30pm National Centre for Early Music Blackbox, Theatre, Film and Television National Railway Museum, City Entrance Tickets: £15 (Concessions £13, Students £5) Building Tickets: £16–£22 NCEM Box Office 01904 658338 Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets yorktheatreroyal.co.uk 01904 623568 01904 322622 Join Alan Barnes and David Newton for an Set in mid-1840s’ York, this production evening of jazz duets. These multi-award- Michael Pennington has been a leading tells the story of George Hudson’s journey winners, who have been playing duets British actor for 50 years and has drawn on to build the East Coast rail network at any together for over 37 years, will cover a his experience of stage and screen in his cost. Discover the danger that lies ahead, as vast repertoire from Louis Armstrong to new book Let Me Play the Lion Too: How those who build it, investors and passengers, Chick Corea. Expect a hugely entertaining to be an Actor. At this event, Michael will get caught up in the reckless programme of jazz interspersed with lots of be interviewed by Michael Cordner of the extravagance of his adventure. anecdotes. University of York about his career. He will Told by a cast of over 200 also give a reading from his book which is throughout the Museum after part memoir, part guide, celebrating the life hours. of a professional actor.

50 yorkfestivalofideas.com PRIVATE LIVES Scandal, Sex, The Biography and Sedition of a Biographer

Private Lives You never know what goes on Fri 12 June, 7pm to 9pm Mon 15 June, 6pm to 6.50pm behind closed doors, and most Fairfax House K/133, King’s Manor intriguingly, behind those of Tickets: £14 Tickets may be booked through Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets people who live very public lives. the Fairfax House Gift Shop. 01904 655543 01904 322622 This theme explores the secret To his admirers Charles Pigott was a “bold and Who was John Aubrey and why does he private lives of high-profile figures free-spoken man”; to those who knew him matter? Historian, biographer and literary such as Elizabeth I, and from Newmarket Whig gambling circles, he critic, Ruth Scurr, explores the challenges Mr and Mrs Disraeli, as well as was someone who “robbed friends, cheated and rewards of writing her innovative life of the hidden and ignored lives of creditors, and libelled acquaintances”. In John Aubrey, the 17th century antiquary and prostitutes in Victorian York. 1792 his collection of biographies, The Jockey author of Brief Lives. Club, made him infamous. Join the University of York’s Jon Mee as he discusses Pigott’s career, from radical and blackmailer to a destitute, social outcast. 51 Secrets and Discoveries 51 PRIVATE LIVES The Mysteries of Sir Thomas Browne The Author’s Effects: Mother Shipton in the 21st Century Visual experience Mother Shipton, public domain, Wikimedia Commons Statue of Sir Thomas Brown, by Elliott Brown, (http://bit.ly/1HbhjE4) used under CC BY 2.0

Mon 15 June, 7pm to 8pm Wed 17 June, 6pm to 7pm Wed 17 June 7pm to 9pm ATB/042, Seebohm Rowntree Building, Berrick Saul Building, University of York Ron Cooke Hub 3Sixty, University of York University of York Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free. No ticket required Free tickets: www.york.ac.uk/ 01904 322622 lifelonglearning/festivalofideas Discover extraordinary objects from 01904 328473 Sir Thomas Browne was a much-loved celebrated authors’ houses presented 17th century doctor, writer, philosopher and as an immersive visual experience and Mother Shipton was a curious Tudor lady myth buster. He wrote several books and his accompanied by a specially commissioned who was based in Yorkshire and fascinated wit, intelligence and curiosity inspired writers soundscape. Come along and ponder objects generations. But who was she? Did she really such as W G Sebald and Virginia Woolf. In this such as Petrarch’s cat, Shakespeare’s quill foretell Wolsey’s downfall and the siege talk, Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author of The and Burns’s bed. Designed in conjunction of York, not to mention the internet, air Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st with the talk: ‘The Author’s Effects’. travel and, famously, the end of the world? Century, reveals what we can learn about our Join Helen Shay of the University of York to lives now, by re-examining how Sir Thomas discover more about Mother Shipton. Browne understood the times in which he lived.

52 yorkfestivalofideas.com PRIVATE LIVES The Author’s Eﬀects The Life and Legacy of Prostitution in George Bradshaw Victorian York George Bradshaw, public domain, Street walker from the Report of the Female Mission to the Wikimedia Commons Fallen, London, 1892.

Wed 17 June, 7.30pm to 8.30pm Thurs 18 June, 4pm to 5pm Thurs 18 June, 6.30pm to 7.20pm Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Evening Star Theatre, National Railway K/133, King’s Manor Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Museum Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622 Free tickets: www.york.ac.uk/ 01904 322622 lifelonglearning/festivalofideas Join Nicola Watson of the Open University 01904 328473 Join author Frances Finnegan for this as she explores the ways that celebrated illustrated talk outlining an aspect of York’s authors’ lives have been imagined in the During the BBC documentary, Great British history previously ignored. Frances will writer’s house museum, looking at a series Railway Journeys, the book Bradshaw’s correct myths surrounding 19th century of extraordinary literary objects – from Railway Companion was Michael Portillo’s prostitution and discuss the research, Shakespeare’s quill to Burns’s bed. trusted guide. But how much do we know writing and particularly the repercussions of about George Bradshaw? In this talk, her book, Poverty and Prostitution: A Study David Turner explores his of Victorian Prostitutes in York (Cambridge life and legacy. University Press, 1979).

Secrets and Discoveries 53 PRIVATE LIVES Mr and Mrs Disraeli: Darwin: A life in poems In the Family Way A strange romance

Sat 20 June, 12 noon to 12.50pm Sat 20 June, 1.15pm to 2.15pm Sat 20 June, 2.45pm to 3.45pm Lakehouse Room, Ron Cooke Hub Lakehouse Room, Ron Cooke Hub Lakehouse Room, Ron Cooke Hub Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622 01904 322622 01904 322622

Deep in the archives of the Bodleian The poet Ruth Padel reads from her poetry Join social historian Jane Robinson as Library lies a tattered scrap of paper with collection, Darwin: A Life in Poems, on the she discusses her new book about the newlyweds’ scribbles on it. The writing is life, thought, and marriage of her great experience of illegitimacy from the Great Mary Anne Disraeli’s: the qualities listed great grandfather Charles Darwin, and the War to the swinging 60s. By speaking to contrast her with her husband, Benjamin great sorrow of his life: the tragic death of those involved, many of whom have never Disraeli, one of the foremost politicians of his beloved ten-year-old daughter Annie, felt able to reveal their secrets before, the Victorian age. Join author Daisy Hay to which may have conﬁrmed for him the Jane tells a moving story, not only about discover how the Disraelis rose to the top of theories he was working out on survival, shame and appalling prejudice, but about the social and political tree. inheritance and evolution. discoveries, triumphs and the everyday strength of the human spirit.

54 yorkfestivalofideas.com THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING In Bed with the Queen The Quantum Universe

The Theory of Everything Sat 20 June, 4.15pm to 5.15pm From the quantum universe to Tues 9 June, 7pm to 8.30pm Lakehouse Room, Ron Cooke Hub perfect parents, The Theory of Memorial Hall, St Peter’s School Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Everything has a huge range of Free tickets: stpetersyork.eventbrite.co.uk. 01904 322622 events for all ages and interests, For enquiries contact exploring anything from physics [email protected] Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558. to the evolution of everyday At the heart of the new queen’s court Join particle physicist Professor Jeff Forshaw, was Elizabeth’s bedchamber, guarded by objects. Manchester University, who recently won the women who helped her dress, looked after Institute of Physics’ Kelvin Medal for his work her jewels and shared her bed. The Ladies explaining science to non-experts. In this of the Bedchamber were guardians of the talk, he will look at quantum physics and he truth as to the queen’s and thus the nation’s will present the crazy rules that control the well-being. Author Anna Whitelock explores behaviour of a quantum particle and show the politics of intimacy, sexual slander, how they impact upon conspiracy and suspicion which centred on See also Science Out of the Lab, pages 24-26, questions about the the queen’s Secrets of the Dead, pages 60-61 and Earth, world around us. bedchamber. Wind and Fire, pages 64-67 55 Secrets and Discoveries 55 THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Astrobiology: From Stone Age Big Telescopes: Hunt for alien life to Phone Age Family day Searching for exoplanetary systems, ESA–C. Carreau Time to check the phone, by byronv2 (http://bit. ly/1J2u0Qz ) , used under CC BY-NC 2.0

Friday 12 June, 7pm to 8.30pm Saturday 13 June, 12 noon to 1pm Sun 14 June, 11am to 5pm Memorial Hall, St Peter’s School Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Physics Exhibition Centre, Free tickets: stpetersyork.eventbrite.co.uk. Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets University of York For enquiries contact 01904 322622 Free. No ticket required. [email protected] Every day of our lives, we go through Join us to explore the Big Telescopes ‘Astrobiology’ is a brand new field of science, the same basic rituals and routines such exhibition. Discover how astronomers use encompassing research into the origins and as washing, using the toilet, eating and different types of light to study the Universe. limits of life on our own planet, and where communicating. In this talk, historian and With interactive activities, an inflatable life might exist beyond the earth. Join Lewis historical consultant to CBBC’s multi-award planetarium, and giant models, find out how Dartnell, of the UK Space Agency, on a tour winning Horrible Histories, Greg Jenner, we know about the Big Bang, black holes, of other planets and moons in our solar guides us through the story of how these galaxies colliding and much more! system which may harbour life, to explore routines have evolved since the Stone Age. one of the greatest questions ever asked – are we alone?

56 yorkfestivalofideas.com THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING In Space, No One Can Let there be Light! A Zoo of Galaxies Hear You Scream! Hubble’s view of the Antennae galaxies, NASA, ESA, and B. Whitmore (Space Telescope Science Institute)

Sun 14 June, 11am to 12 noon Sun 14 June, 1pm to 2pm Sun 14 June, 3pm to 4pm P/X001, Physics Exhibition Centre, P/X001, Physics Exhibition Centre, P/X001, Physics Exhibition Centre, University of York University of York University of York Free tickets: 01904 322234 Free tickets: 01904 322234 Free tickets: 01904 322234 astrocampus.org.uk/events astrocampus.org.uk/events astrocampus.org.uk/events

How do we get into space? What happens From the beginning of the Universe, to its The Universe is filled with galaxies with an to our bodies once we are there? Why can’t eventual end, find out what light can tell amazing variety of sizes and shapes. One we breathe in space? And why is it that in us about space. From the light that we can of the biggest challenges for astronomers space, no one can hear you scream? Join see to a whole range that we can’t, discover working in this field is to understand the University of York’s Katherine Leech to how telescopes are revealing the wonders how they all relate to each other in the explore these questions and more. With of the Universe with the University of York’s background of an expanding universe. Karen live demonstrations and hands-on activities Katherine Leech. With live demonstrations Masters from the University of Portsmouth including boiling blood, and hands-on activities: and Project Scientist for the Galaxy Zoo oozing marshmallows from hidden messages Citizen Science programme will discuss how and lots of explosions. and special glasses, join the public can help classify galaxies and the us to see the invisible! real science being done with their findings.

Secrets and Discoveries 57 THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Mini Magnetospheres Is Anybody Out There? Freedom Regained: The possibility of free will Earth’s protective shield, ESA/ATG medialab

Mon 15 June, 7pm to 8.30pm Tues 16 June, 7pm to 8.30pm Wed 17 June, 7.30pm to 8.20pm P/L001, Physics Exhibition Centre, P/X001, Physics Exhibition Centre, Berrick Saul Building, University of York University of York University of York Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: 01904 322234 Free tickets: 01904 322234 01904 322622 astrocampus.org.uk/events astrocampus.org.uk/events Do we have free will? This is a question that One of the biggest dangers while travelling For more than 50 years, giant radio has puzzled philosophers and theologians in space is exposure to potentially lethal telescopes have looked for signals from extra- for centuries, and has only become bursts of radiation from the sun. Ruth terrestrial civilisations. We’ve discovered more complex with recent advances in Bamford, from RAL Space, will discuss how some amazing astronomical phenomena neuroscience and genetics. In his talk, Julian to protect astronauts with Star Trek-style but so far nothing that looks like a message Baggini blends philosophy, neuroscience, deﬂector shields, and the importance of from space. Tim O’Brien from Jodrell Bank sociology and cognitive science, and draws these shields on future manned missions will discuss what the future might hold for on scientiﬁc research and fascinating to Mars. The talk will begin at 7pm with an our attempts to answer the question: “Are encounters with expert witnesses to bring awards presentation for the winners of the we alone in the Universe?” The talk will begin the issues raised by the possibilities and Astrocampus Astrophotography competition. at 7pm with a presentation for the Schools’ denials of free Physicist of the Year Awards. will vividly to life.

58 yorkfestivalofideas.com THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Perfect Parents Lost in the Garden Einstein’s Dice and and Perfect Husbands of Forking Paths Schrödinger’s Cat Dice another day, by topher76 (http://bit. ly/1J2qg1m), used under CC BY-ND 2.0

Fri 19 June, 7.15pm to 8.30pm Sat 20 June, 2pm Sun 21 June, 4pm to 5pm Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Fountains Lecture Theatre, Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets York St John University Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622 Free tickets: http://bit.ly/1GftifU 01904 322622 01904 87 6565 Parenting and marriage in the modern Paul Halpern tells the little-known story of world can be overwhelming concepts. Explore how physics can help us see how Einstein and Schrödinger searched, first The Guardian’s Zoe Williams explores the literature in a new light with Paul Halpern, of as collaborators and then as competitors, never-ending and intense parenting advice the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, for a theory of everything. Professor Halpern that divides everyone from psychologists to and Dr Victoria Carpenter from York St John will show how Schrödinger’s premature politicians, while Tim Dowling, a husband of University. Walk down Jorge Luis Borges’s announcement of success, in January 1947, some 20 years, asks what it takes to make a Garden of Forking Paths, peek into Ernesto led to a media fiasco. This story provides new husband. Sabato’s lonely Tunnel and travel through insights into the history of physics, as well as *Tim warns that anything resembling advice time with Connie Willis’s Blackout. vital questions about how the media handle should be taken at the listener’s own risk. purported scientific discoveries.

Secrets and Discoveries 59 SECRETS OF THE DEAD Plants: The real Secrets of the Dead: The silent witnesses science of who you are York Archaeological Trust Secrets of the Dead Can you really take your secrets Thurs 11 June, 7pm to 8pm Thurs 11 June, 7.30pm to 8.30pm to the grave? See how science DIG, St Saviourgate Merchant Adventurers’ Hall can reveal some of the secrets of Tickets: £4 Adult (Concessions £3) Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets the dead from forensic botany to digyork.com/events 01904 615505 01904 322622 forensic anthropology. Oh, and Discover how plants and soil can provide Our identity is very personal to us but it is there is a zombie dissection too. vital clues in criminal investigations. Join something that we willingly share every Jennifer Miller, of York Archaeological Trust’s single day of our lives. But what happens Dickson Laboratory for Bioarchaeology, when we are no longer alive to verify our as she outlines the various ways in which identity? Sue Black, Director of the Centre plants contribute to the investigation of for Anatomy and Human Identiﬁcation at serious crime. Visitor discretion is advised: the University of Dundee, will discuss how this illustrated talk will include discussion of your mortal remains can continue to talk to crime scenes that some may ﬁnd distressing. forensic scientists long after your passing. See also Science Out of the Lab, pages 24-26, The Theory of Everything, pages 55-59 and Earth, Wind and Fire, pages 64-67 60 60 yorkfestivalofideas.com SURVEILLANCE, SNOWDEN AND SECURITY Zombies in York Cracking the Code

Surveillance, Courtesy of the Folger Snowden and Shakespeare Library Security Fri 12 and Fri 19 June, 7pm to 9pm York Festival of Ideas will delve Sat 20 June, 11.00am to 12.15pm Waterstones into the controversial world University of York Tickets: £1. Tickets available in Waterstones of intelligence gathering, Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 620784 zombiesinyork.co.uk surveillance, fragile states, media 01904 322622 coverage of conﬂict, crime and Zombies have taken over York and brought Keynote address by Bill Sherman, Director terrorism and the future of cyber the city to a standstill. But one was caught. of Research, V&A Museum. security. Join University of York scientists as they Followed by a panel discussion with: dissect a zombie. This interactive event • John Clark, University of York has hands-on opportunities to study the • Rene Zandbergen, Voynich manuscript infectious agent causing the outbreak, expert examine the Zombie’s blood, play with its • Sir Dermot Turing, Trustee of the brains and more. Suitable for adults and Bletchley Park Trust children aged 10 and over. • Bill Sherman 61 Secrets and Discoveries 61 SURVEILLANCE, SNOWDEN AND SECURITY The Future of Surveillance, Snowden Intelligence’s Role in Cyber Security and Security Defending Europe

Sat 20 June, 1pm to 2.30pm Sat 20 June, 3pm to 4.30pm Saturday 20 June, 4.45pm to 5.15pm University of York University of York University of York Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622 01904 322622 01904 322622

BBC Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan- Keynote address by Ewen MacAskill, An opportunity to hear from NATO’s Deputy Jones in conversation with Bebo White, The Guardian on whistleblower Edward Chief of Staff, Operations and Intelligence, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Snowden. Major General Gordon ‘Skip’ Davis on Stanford University. intelligence’s role in defending Europe and Followed by a panel discussion with: And panel discussion with: the opportunities and challenges in a new • Richard Evans, Director Intelligence, strategic environment. • Tim Spiller, University of York Security and Risk Consulting IHS • Fred Piper, Queen Mary University London • Sultan Barakat, Brookings Institute • Kevin O’Brien, Accenture Representative • Ewen MacAskill • Colin Williams SBL, University of Warwick • Major General Gordon ‘Skip’ Davis, and De Montfort University NATO’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations Chair: Rory Cellan-Jones and Intelligence

62 yorkfestivalofideas.com SURVEILLANCE, SNOWDEN AND SECURITY Intelligence Gathering and Crime and Terrorism Citizen Four: the Media: Who to trust Documentary screening The National Security Agency (USA) , by Trevor Paglen

Sat 20 June, 5.30pm to 6.30pm Sat 20 June, 6.45pm to 8.15pm Sun 21 June, 12 noon to 2pm University of York University of York Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622 01904 322622 01904 322622

Panel discussion curated by Claire Keynote address by former chief of staff When film-maker Laura Poitros and journalist Spencer, Chatham House and featuring to Tony Blair and CEO and founder of Inter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong to meet Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor, Mediate, Jonathan Powell, about his book whistleblower Edward Snowden for the first Channel 4 News. Talking to Terrorists. time, Poitros took her camera with her. The Followed by a separate panel discussion: result is Citizen Four, a real life espionage Is religion a decoy? Curated by Mina Al- story unfolding minute by minute. Join us Oraibi, Asharq Alawsat, and featuring Afzal for a special screening of the Brit4 Oscar and Ashraf, Royal United Services Institute for Bafta winning documentary. Defence and Security Studies.

Secrets and Discoveries 63 EARTH, WIND AND FIRE Discovering the Secret Rock and Fossil Lives of Killer Whales Roadshow ly/1JTtnJX) used under CC BY 2.0 Guy Taking Pictures (http://bit. Fossil Sitting In Sunlight, by A

Earth, Wind Daniel Franks and Fire Discover the world from its core Tues 9 June, 7.30pm to 8.30pm Sat 13 June, 11am to 3pm to the atmosphere – Earth, Wind Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Museum Gardens and Fire explores all the elements Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free. No ticket required. of our planet through talks and 01904 322622 Bring along your own rocks and fossils for hands-on activities for everyone. Join University of York biologist Daniel identiﬁcation by the experts, plus get the Franks as he reveals recent scientiﬁc chance to see specimens from the Yorkshire discoveries about the secret lives of killer Museum’s collection. whales. Learn about killer whales’ social behaviour – with a focus on the evolution of menopause and the role of whale grannies – and discover similarities with human evolution.

See also Science out of the Lab, pages 24- 26, The Theory of Everything, pages 55-59 and Secrets of the Dead, pages 60-61 64 64 yorkfestivalofideas.com EARTH, WIND AND FIRE Introduction to William Smith: The father All Aboard the Cloud Lab Geological Maps of English geology BBC

Tues 16 June, 11am to 12.30pm Tues 16 June, 2pm to 3.30pm Tues 16 June, 6.30pm to 7.20pm Yorkshire Museum Yorkshire Museum Berrick Saul Building, University of York Tickets: Free, Museum admission applies. Tickets: £5, Museum admission applies. Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 697979 01904 697979 01904 322622 www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk The BBC series Operation Cloud Lab: Secrets What are geological maps and how are they Take a closer look at William ‘Strata’ Smith’s of the Skies brought together a team of produced? Come along to this hands-on groundbreaking 1815 geological map of scientists who travelled across the US in session to discover how they can help you England and Wales, compare this to modern the world’s largest airship. Along the way explore the secrets beneath your feet. maps and discover more about Smith’s life they discovered that pollution can affect and work. hurricane strength and they even managed to weigh a cloud. Join Jim McQuaid of the University of Leeds as he reveals some of the amazing sights that ended up on the cutting room ﬂoor.

Secrets and Discoveries 65 EARTH, WIND AND FIRE The Weather Experiment Journey to the Green Reactions Presents: Centre of the Earth Rubbish resources! used under CC by 0.2 MattysFlick (http://bit.ly/1OroloH) Clouds, Storms and Sunsets, by

Wed 17 June, 6.30pm to 7.20pm Wed 17 June, 7.35pm to 8.25pm Friday 19 June, 7pm Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Ron Cooke Hub, University of York The Basement, City Screen Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivaloﬁdeas.com/tickets 01904 322622 01904 322622 01904 322622

Robert FitzRoy is one of the forgotten heroes One hundred and fifty years after the University of York researchers introduce their of 19th century science. He is remembered extraordinary, imaginative novel by author work on turning rubbish into useful materials, as Charles Darwin’s captain on HMS Beagle, Jules Verne – Journey to the Centre of The and invite questions on the technologies and but he was also known for founding a Earth – join scientist David Whitehouse as he their impact in the wider world. This event controversial governmental office, the embarks on a voyage of scientific discovery is sponsored by the Society of Biology, and Meteorological Department. Join writer into the heart of our world. is part of the Royal Society of Peter Moore as he revisits FitzRoy’s weather Chemistry-supported Green experiment, one of the most notorious Reactions series. scientific experiments of the Victorian age.

66 yorkfestivalofideas.com THE FUTURE OF FOOD Green Reactions Presents: Quorn: Food out Think green! (or not…) of the kitchen

The Future of Food Sat 20 June, 6pm to 8pm York Festival of Ideas delivers Mon 15 June, 10am to 2pm Berrick Saul Building, University of York a series of workshops, St Sampson Square Free tickets: yorkfestivaloﬁdeas.com/tickets demonstrations and panel Free. No ticket needed. 01904 324778 discussions exploring food Join Quorn in a marquee in St Sampson security, food sustainability, Green Reactions is a public dialogues Square with food-related demonstrations, climate change, food and health, project, funded by the Royal Society of short talks, exhibitions and hands-on Chemistry, which brings members of and inﬂuencing consumer workshops highlighting issues related to: behaviour. the public together with York scientists • Food security working at the cutting edge of sustainable • Food and climate change technology. • Food and health • Sustainable crops • Alternatives to meat.

67 Secrets and Discoveries 67 THE FUTURE OF FOOD The Future of Food: You Are What You Eat Let’s Talk About Meat The ticking time bomb

Mon 15 June, 3pm to 4.30pm Mon 15 June, 4.45pm to 6.30pm Mon 15 June, 7pm to 8.30pm Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622 01904 322622 01904 322622

Introduction by Kevin Brennan, Quorn Keynote address by Tim Spector, author of Keynote address by Sue Dibb, Eating Better Keynote address by Tara Garnett, Food and The Diet Myth. alliance. Climate Research Network. Followed by a panel discussion with: Followed by panel discussion featuring Followed by a panel discussion with: • Tim Spector, King’s College London Geoff Tansey, Chair of the Fabian Commission on Food Poverty and member • Christopher Ritson, Food Ethics Council • Paul Gateley, Leeds Beckett University of the Guild of Food Writers and Alex • Caroline Drummond, Leaf CEO and HSBC The debate will be followed by presentations Renton, campaigning journalist and food Global Agri Advisory Board by Quorn competition ﬁnalists on policies writer. Further speakers to be announced. • Sue Hartley, University of York aimed to change what people eat. Chair: Kevin Brennan, Quorn. Chair: Sir Michael Jack, Agriculture Advisor Chair: Sue Hartley, University of York HSBC Bank

68 yorkfestivalofideas.com SECRETS AND LIES Truth, Trust and Trysts Secrets from Journalism, Politics and Prison

Secrets and Lies Explore the idea and meaning Tues 9 June, 5.30pm to 6.30pm Tues 9 June, 7.15pm to 8.15pm of truth through philosophy Tempest Anderson Hall Tempest Anderson Hall and storytelling as well as the Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets consequences of lies being 01904 322622 01904 322622 uncovered. The word ‘truth’ derives from an Anglo- Jonathan Aitken is an author, broadcaster, Saxon word meaning ‘straight.’ Because of lecturer and campaigner for prison reform. that origin we talk of an arrow ‘ﬂying true’. He is a former cabinet minister, member of When we trust people we are assuming parliament and ex-prisoner. Join Jonathan as that they are straight; both for social and he reveals secrets from a life in journalism. individual relationships this assumption is indispensable. Join philosopher A C Grayling as he explores how truth can be destructive and disruptive. 69 Secrets and Discoveries 69 SECRETS AND LIES Secrets and Discoveries: School Challenge: A storytelling evening Discoveries and secrets Mark Woodward

Sparks Wed 10 June, 7pm to 8.30pm Events aimed to spark children’s Tues 9 to Sun 21 June ATB/042, Seebohm Rowntree Building, imaginations – join us for story- In Primary Schools across the City of York University of York telling events and hands-on Pre-bookable by Primary Schools – Free tickets: 01904 328473 activities all designed to inspire contact [email protected] www.york.ac.uk/lifelonglearning/ and excite! festivalofideas Not-for-proﬁt organisation, NYBEP, invites Sparks is supported by Shepherd primary schools from across the city to take Can you keep a secret? Should all secrets be Group part in a Festival of Ideas Challenge. Could revealed? What is the ultimate secret? Join your pupils communicate a coded message Alice Courvoisier of the University of York, across the classroom using whatever vehicle and writer Jacqueline Saville for an evening they design (but not voice)? And transmit of storytelling and readings exploring what a secret message? Help build your pupils’ mythology, folk tales and literature can teamwork and creativity skills with this teach us about the secrets we keep and hands-on event. those we try to uncover. 70 70 yorkfestivalofideas.com SPARKS Secrets of the GoodFest Festival Fringe Chocolate City Family Fun Aﬅernoon David Stuttard Parthenon

Sat 13 June, 11am to 3pm Sat 13 June, 12.30pm to 9pm Sat 13 June, 1.30pm to 4.30pm Mansion House Goodricke College grounds and college Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Free. No ticket required. Nucleus (all accessible areas) Free. No ticket required. 01904 325113 Free. No ticket required. 01904 328097 Why was York at the centre of the chocolate industry? Uncover the secrets and discoveries GoodFest is a free annual festival hosted Join University of York postgraduate of York’s chocolate families with a range of by the University of York’s Goodricke students for this year’s Festival Fringe Family hands-on activities for families, from trying College. The Festival is open to all with Fun Afternoon. Discover the hidden world of your hand at working in a chocolate factory something for everyone including: live music fungi and how to write in code. Also create to making your own chocolate using the performances, assault courses, fairground your own ﬁlm soundtrack, design your own chocolate industry’s best-kept recipe secrets. games, festival food vans, face painting, monster, or make a medieval map. Activities bouncy castle, tie dye, jugglers, cheerleaders are particularly suitable for seven to 13-year- and a rafﬂe. olds but other family members are welcome to join in too.

Secrets and Discoveries 71 SPARKS Storytelling Festival: Map Attack! Words in Things Art in Museum Gardens Mark Woodward David Stuttard Parthenon David Stuttard Parthenon

Sat 13 June, 11am, 12 noon, 1pm, 2pm and Sat 13 and Sat 20, 10am to 4pm Fri 19 June, 10am to 11.30am 3pm. Each session last for 20–30 minutes Sun 14 and Sun 21, 11am to 3pm St Lawrence’s Children’s Centre Museum Gardens (or Yorkshire Museum Explore York Library Learning Centre Free. No ticket required. Just drop in. if bad weather) Free. No ticket required. Free. No ticket required. As part of York Curiouser, a visual arts Come along and get creative with Lego workshop will be led by visual art education Watch the paintings of York Art Gallery come to make buildings, scenes and sculptures specialist, Griselda Goldsbrough, which will alive in York Museum Gardens: this family- inspired by documents which tell stories encourage pre-school children and their friendly event celebrates the reopening of of our city’s past. Map Attack is a drop-in carers to explore colour, shapes and secret York Art Gallery and its renowned collection event for families, created as part of the poems. through stories written Heritage Lottery Fund York: Gateway to and performed by History project, and generously supported students from the by William Birch & University of Sons Ltd. York.

72 yorkfestivalofideas.com SECRETS, DISCOVERIES AND MEDICINE Stories of The Viruses: Mathematical First World War visualisations

Secrets, Discoveries and Medicine Sat 20 June, 2pm to 2.45pm A visit to the doctor with a Mon 8 June to Fri 12 June The Garden Room, Explore York Library broken arm rarely ends with an Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Free tickets: Book tickets in any Explore amputated nose these days but Free. No ticket required. York Library. 01904 552828 how did we get to the generally Following a collaboration between safe medical practices of today? Author Hilary Robinson reads and explains designer Briony Thomas of the University the background to her two picture books of Leeds, and mathematical virologist Where The Poppies Now Grow and The Reidun Twarock, of the University of York, Christmas Truce. The books were published this interactive exhibition explores recent to commemorate the centenary of the First advances in our understanding of viruses. World War. Written in verse, in homage to the war poets, the stories are a sensitive portrayal of life in Edwardian England and the difﬁculties many soldiers faced in the trenches. See also Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century page 53 73 Secrets and Discoveries 73 SECRETS, DISCOVERIES AND MEDICINE The Art of Measure: The Secret History of Healing at a Distance Virus form and function Biological Warfare Telephone, Tim G. photography (http://bit.ly/1IX2bsO) used under CC BY 2.0

Tues 9 June, 5.30pm to 6.30pm Tues 9 June, 6.30pm to 7.45pm Wed 10 June, 6.30pm to 7.45pm Ron Cooke Hub, University of York Berrick Saul Building, University of York York Medical Society Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free. No ticket required. Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622 01904 322622 The use of disease as a weapon of war can Join designer Briony Thomas of the be traced back to ancient times, but it What can the history of old technologies like University of Leeds, and mathematical was only in the 20th century that nations the telephone and the television teach us virologist Reidun Twarock, of the University invested huge effort and money into secret, about the future of telemedicine? Jeremy of York, as they discuss their interactive organised research programmes to develop Greene of Johns Hopkins University reframes exhibition exploring recent advances in biological weapons. In this talk, Brian Balmer current debates over the promise and perils our understanding of the virus structure. of University College London will explore this of telemedicine by examining the ethical The talk is followed by an opportunity to hidden history and how our understanding challenges posed by a series of older “new participate in hands-on workshop activities of the past might inform current debate media” in medicine from the late 19th suitable for all ages. about controlling these weapons. century to the present.

74 yorkfestivalofideas.com SECRETS, DISCOVERIES AND MEDICINE Melodrama and Fiﬅy Active Years Medical Horror Stories Aﬅer Fiﬅy®

Thurs 11 June, 6.30pm to 7.45pm Thurs 11 June, 6pm to 8.30pm Berrick Saul Building, University of York National Science Learning Centre Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622 01904 322622

The US Public Health Service sponsored a Fifty active years after 50 is an expectation medical research study in Guatemala that for many people. Join John Fisher, Director involved infecting thousands of vulnerable of the Institute of Medical & Biological people with sexually transmitted diseases Engineering, as he explores medical between 1946 and 1948. In this talk, Susan engineering solutions for longer-lasting joint Reverby of Wellesley College, USA, discusses replacements and emerging technologies how the materials from the study were in the form of biological scaffolds which found after being concealed, the ﬁght to encourage the body to regenerate itself. achieve justice and how the US government came to apologise.

Secrets and Discoveries 75 SECRETS, DISCOVERIES AND MEDICINE Secrets, Discoveries The Occult Roots of Medicine’s Painful Past and Medicine Modern Psychology

Fri 12 June, 6.30pm to 8pm Sat 13 June, 6.30pm to 7.45pm Wed 17 June, 6.30pm to 7.45pm National Science Learning Centre Berrick Saul Building, University of York K/133, King’s Manor Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets Free tickets: yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets 01904 322622 01904 322622 01904 322622

This roundtable, with a range of experts Historian Andreas Sommer provides an When Charles II suffered a seizure in1685, from Europe and the US, will debate overview of historical links between his personal physician opened his veins, pharmaceutical innovation in relation elite science and occult phenomena and ﬁlling a basin with his blood. The king was to clinical trial openness, patents and reconstructs the involvement of some of bled several more times and eventually intellectual property from an inter- the founders of psychology in research on lapsed into a coma and died. In this talk, disciplinary perspective. It will examine telepathy and spiritualism. medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris explores some of the major challenges, as well as little known stories about early medicine. potential beneﬁts, associated with different Why exactly were people bled in the past? practices, legal frameworks and policies, And what are the true origins of the term looking at the implications of all these ‘quack’? themes on contemporary global health.

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1 421 Huntington Road 19 Fountains Lecture Theatre 39 Rowntree Park B1 Castle HowardA64 YO31. Please contact the venue for details York St John University YO23 1JU 363 on wheelchair access 01904 615505. No parking. 20 Friargate Friends Meeting House 40 Seebohm Rowntree Building A1 YO1 9RL University of York 9 A1 2 All Saints, Pavement 237 Pavement 21 Goodricke College 41 St Helen’s Church 3 ARRC Auditorium, ARRC Building University of York St Helen’s Square University of York A1237 22 Harper and Carr 42 St Lawrence’s Children’s Centre 1 4 The Basement, City Screen 41 Fossgate YO10 5BW Please contact the venue for wheelchair access 23 Holgate Windmill 43 St Peter’s School 0871 902 5726 YO26 4TX. (No wheelchair access) Bootham 5 Berrick Saul Building 24 James College 44 St Sampson’s Square University of York University of York 45 Tempest Anderson Hall 6 Bettys Tearoom 25 King’s Manor Museum Gardens A59 St Helen’s Square (No wheelchair access) Exhibition Square. (No wheelchair access to 46 Theatre, Film and Television Building 7 Castle Howard K/133 and K/159. K/111 has limited access.) University of York YO60 7DA. Walking tour on uneven terrain, not 26 Law and Management Building 47 Waterstones suitable for those with limited mobility. University of York Coney Street 66 27 Mansion House A1 8 Castle Museum 48 York Medical Society Eye of York. Please contact the venue for details on St Helen’s Square Stonegate wheelchair access 01904 687633 28 Memorial Gardens 49 York Minster 9 Central Hall Leeman Road 50 Yorkshire Museum University of York 29 Merchant Adventurers’ Hall Museum Street 23 York 10 Central Methodist Hall Fossgate St Saviourgate B1224 A1079 30 Museum Gardens All venues are wheelchair accessible unless 42 11 Dean’s Park Museum Street otherwise stated. York Minster 31 Music Research Centre A1 University of York To plan your journey by public transport 237 39 12 DIG St Saviourgate 32 National Centre for Early Music consult the York Journey Planner at University 13 Duke of York Walmgate www.yorkshiretravel.net. of York King’s Square (No wheelchair access) 33 National Science Learning Centre For more information on central York car parks 14 Exhibition Centre University of York University of York visit www.york.gov.uk/parking. Parking facilities 34 National Railway Museum at other venues will vary – please check with 15 Explore York Library Learning Centre Leeman Road A64 the venue. Library Square, Museum Street 35 Norman Rea Gallery 16 Fairfax House University of York Please contact the venue for details on wheelchair 36 Quad South Hall access 01904 655543 York St John University 17 Fishergate Postern Tower 37 Quad West 007 Fishergate. (No wheelchair access) York St John University

er Ouse er 18 Foss Sports Hall 38 Ron Cooke Hub York St John University Riv University of York

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We would like to thank the following sponsors and partners for making York Festival of Ideas 2015 happen:

All Saints, Pavement Humanities Research Centre The Jorvik Group Aviva Institute of Physics and Engineering UNESCO BBC History Magazine in Medicine University of York Bettys Institute for Engineering and Technology Waterstones C2D2 Jessie’s Fund Wellcome Trust Castle Howard Joseph Rowntree Foundation World Meat Free Day Centre for Global Health Histories Kinofolk York Archaeological Trust Centre for Lifelong Learning L’Atelier York Civic Trust Channel 4 Leeds Brewery York Cocoa House Children’s University LUMA York Company of Merchant Adventurers City of York Council National Centre for Early Music York Curiouser Classic FM National Railway Museum York Design Awards DIG National Science Learning Centre Yorkshire Film Archive Duke of York Nybep York Irish Society everythingyork.co.uk Pilot Theatre York Minster Explore York Library Learning Centre Quorn York Museums Trust Fairfax House Rowntree Society York Musical Society Fishergate, Fulford and Heslington Local Santander Universities Yorkshire Philosophical Society History Society Shepherd Group Yorkshire Sculpture Park Friends of York Walls Songlines Festival York St John University GoodFest St Helen’s Church York Theatre Royal Harper and Carr St Peter’s School Yorkwalk Holgate Windmill The Holbeck Charitable Trust Design by Doug James at Mode at James Doug by Design