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Autumn 08 Alternative Pdf Amends EVENTS GUIDE · AUTUMN TERM 2008 1 October 2008 EVENTS PROGRAMME Public Events AUTUMN TERM September to December 2008 www.le.ac.uk 2 UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER Key facts about the University 1 The University of Leicester is a 6 Leicester is home to two prestigious leading UK University with a proud national Centres for Excellence in past and an exciting future. We Teaching and Learning (in Genetics deliver high quality undergraduate, and Geographical Information postgraduate and professional Science) and plays an important role education and create research that in a third (Physics). has international impact. 7 Over 19,500 students drawn from 2 Leicester is ranked amongst the UK’s 150 countries study with us. We are best universities. The Independent the UK’s largest provider of distance places Leicester 12th, the Guardian learning education after the Open 14th and the Times 14th out of University. Britain’s 113 universities. 8 According to Thomson Scientific 3 Leicester is one of just 21 British Leicester has the tenth highest Universities to feature in the world’s number of frequently cited top 200, ranked 151st. researchers in the UK. 4 Leicester is a member of the 1994 9 With over 3000 colleagues and a Group of internationally renowned turnover in excess of £200m the universities engaged in leading-edge University is one of Leicestershire’s research and high-quality teaching. largest organisations. 5 Our scores for full-time student 10 In total, the University contributes satisfaction are the highest in the over half a billion pounds of activity Midlands and bettered by annually to the economy. mainstream universities in England by Oxford and Cambridge only. Programme contents Welcome ............................................3 Campus map ....................................18 Programme listings A To assist you map references are September ......................................4 supplied for Main Campus events. October ...........................................5 November .....................................11 December......................................16 www.le.ac.uk EVENTS GUIDE · AUTUMN TERM 2008 3 Welcome Welcome to this guide to public events at the University of Leicester in the Autumn of 2008. I am certain you will find many activities in this guide that are of great interest and I warmly invite you to join us for them at our campus. Our roots are firmly in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland but the impact of our work is global. The discovery of DNA Genetic Fingerprinting is our most famous achievement but our world class research is diverse and significant in its impact. For example, our recent work has demonstrated links between hormones and heart disease, discovered new techniques for lifting fingerprints from metals (for example bullets), highlighted that Renaissance England possessed unprecedented diverse and flourishing satire and comedy, and demonstrated that diet has a significant impact on the evolution of species. Professor Robert Burgess, Vice-Chancellor Work such as this has led Leicester to be ranked as one of the UK’s leading universities. Described by the Independent’s 2009 Complete University Guide as a “first class university” the Guide ranks Leicester 12th out of Britain’s 113 universities. We believe that higher education is a power for good and makes a significant intellectual and economic contribution to the world. I hope you will join us for the events in this guide and through this will discover more about our important work. Professor Robert Burgess Vice Chancellor The University of Leicester is by “ any measure, one of the best. Times Higher Education Supplement” Events 4 UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER September 2008 Tickets Parking Some of the events are Limited parking is available on campus ticketed and these are and at the satellite car park off highlighted in the programme. For Welford Road – see the map on the tickets please see contact listed for back cover. Visitors are advised to use the event. public transport to access the campus. Venue Refreshments The venues are listed as A, B, C, D, E, The David Wilson Library Café is open F, G, H, I and J are illustrated on the 8am - 10pm Mon to Fri and 9am - map at the back. 10pm on Saturdays and Sundays. FRIDAY 26 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 27 SEPTEMBER Learning to Self Direct Vaughan Williams The Lark Mick Connell: Leicestershire County Ascending Council Holst St Paul’s Suite Personalising adult social care is one of Warlock Capriol Suite the key challenges in social policy. Older people need to be at the forefront of this Purcell The Gordian Knot Untied social movement and learning can help Leicestershire Sinfonia, Conductor them get there. Matthew Lynch, Violin: Melissa Court I Booking required A full programme of events organised by The Richard Attenborough Centre can be E 10am-1.00pm followed by a buffet lunch 4th floor, Charles Wilson Building accessed at www.le.ac.uk/racentre Contact: Isabel Woodliffe I Tickets (£6) T: 0116 252 5914 (concession/NUS/under 19s £4) E: [email protected] 7.30pm Fraser Noble Hall Contact: Richard Attenborough Centre T: 0116 252 2455 E: [email protected] W: www.le.ac.uk/racentre EVENTS GUIDE · AUTUMN TERM 2008 5 October 2008 FRIDAY 3 OCTOBER Film and the US Elections: I 3.10pm-6.00pm A Screening of Nashville University Film Theatre, Attenborough Building (dir. Robert Altman, 1975) Contact: Dr Guy Barefoot Dr Guy Barefoot E: [email protected] The first in a series of film screenings and short talks organised by the Department of History of Art and Film and the Centre for American Studies. Subsequent films are likely to include Bulworth (2003), introduced by Dr Andrew Johnstone on 29th October. I All welcome I Free entry Subsequent screenings will take place on alternate Wednesdays (15th and 29th October, 12th and 26th November) MONDAY 6 OCTOBER Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society The Not Altogether Elementary Case Of 7 Sherlock Holmes . 3 0 p Richard Gill, President m N e President’s address w W Open meeting to be followed by a social alk Museum gathering. The Lord Mayor will be present. Contact: Mary Hamill T: 0116 270 3413 I Free entry E: [email protected] 6 UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER October 2008 Doctoral Inaugural Lectures WEDNESDAY 8 OCTOBER What’s in a Name? The Relationship Between British Surnames and Y Chromosome Type Dr Turi King (Genetics) Copy Number Changes in Human Alpha-globin Genes Dr Gabriel Lam (Genetics) Dr King and Dr Lam are holders of the School of Biological Sciences PhD Prizes. Reception afterwards in The Atrium I Booking essential B 5.30pm Henry Wellcome Building Contact: Monica Latham (Student Learning Centre) T: 0116 252 5090 E: [email protected] WEDNESDAY 8 OCTOBER MONDAY 20 OCTOBER CELI Human Rights Lecture Series: Sculpture and Architecture The Laws of War and the in Early Modern England Practice of Warfare Professor Tim Mowl Professor Gerry Simpson LSE I All welcome, free entry Chair: Professor Erika Szyszczak G 5.00-6.00pm Ken Edwards, Lecture Theatre 3 I All welcome, free entry Contact: Carol Charles 5.00-6.00pm Fielding Johnson Building, T: 0116 252 2866 H E: [email protected] L66 Contact: Dr Virginia Mantouvalou Other dates in the series: T: 0116 252 2366 5.30-6.30pm E: [email protected] Monday 3 November – Simon Watney W: www.le.ac.uk/law/celi/ Monday 10 November – Nigel Llewellyn EVENTS GUIDE · AUTUMN TERM 2008 7 October 2008 MONDAY 20 OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER Wife Or Muse: Philip Larkin’s CELI Human rights Lecture Love Triangle Series; Human Rights and Professor James Booth, the Bottom Billion Head of the Department of English, Professor Susan Marks, University of Hull. King’s College London Sponsored by the University of Leicester Chair: Dr Virginia Mantouvalou Bookshop. H 5.00pm Fielding Johnson Building L66 I All welcome, free of charge Contact: Dr Virginia Mantouvalou 7.30pm Art Gallery, New Walk Museum T: 0116 252 2363 Contact: Mary Hamill E: [email protected] T: 0116 270 3413 W: www.le.ac.uk/law/celi/ E: [email protected] FROM THURSDAY 23 – SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER Mozart: Don Giovanni Knighton Opera, Conductor Paul Jenkins I Tickets £8 (Thursday) £10 (Friday and Saturday) TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER 7.00pm Fraser Noble Hall Contact: Richard Attenborough Centre Lamport Hall Study Day T: 0116 252 2455 Ceramics in England E: [email protected] Mr Lars Tharp W: www.le.ac.uk/racentre Consists of three separate lectures with lunch, tea and coffee provided. I £35 per person, booking required 10.00-3.15pm followed by tea Lamport Hall Northamptonshire Contact: Carol Charles T: 0116 252 2866 E: [email protected] 8 UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER October 2008 MONDAY 27 OCTOBER Sculpture and Architecture in Early Modern England Dr Jean Wilson I All welcome G 5.30-6.30pm Ken Edwards, Lecture Theatre 3 Contact: Carol Charles T: 0116 252 2866 E: [email protected] WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER Non-catalytic Roles for the Maintenance Methyltransferase, DNMT1, in Development and Disease Dr Richard Meehan, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General FRIDAY 24 OCTOBER Hospital Edinburgh Leicester Jazz House I All welcome presents Zoe Rahman B 2.00pm Henry Wellcome Building, Zoe Rahman has firmly established Frank & Katherine May Lecture Theatre herself as one of the brightest stars on Contact: Sarah Laband the contemporary jazz scene. Expect T: 0116 252 3438 something very special from her solo gig. E: [email protected] I Tickets £7 (concessions/NUS/under 19s £5) A 8.00pm Richard Attenborough Centre T: 0116 252 2455 E: [email protected] W: www.zoerahman.com EVENTS
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