Special Events Music Union of Students Events Drama Lectures & Seminars Open Days, Exhibitions & Fairs Dream Bigger Dreams - Student week Open Campus 21-26 February February –– May 2011 National Science and Engineering Week - 11-20 March Talk, text, rhyme and sign about Science University Of Sheffield Events. Download a PDF of this booklet at: www.sheffield.ac.uk/whatson/opencampus.html For more information on events at the University of Sheffield see: www.sheffield.ac.uk/whatson Special Events February –– May 2011 Talk, Text, Rhyme and Sign about Science this March FRIDAY 11 – SUNDAY 20 MARCH Now in its 18th year, National Science and DREAM BIGGER DREAMS: STUDENT WEEK Engineering Week is a ten- MONDAY 21 – SATURDAY 26 FEBURARY day programme of science, engineering and technology Winter Gardens & Millennium Square, Sheffield City Centre events and activities across the UK to engage and inspire After the success of last year’s Team will be running some fun people of all ages with Student Week we are delighted science-based activities such science and technology and to announce its return! The as ‘Inside out body tunic’ and their implications. University of Sheffield and ‘How cold can you get?’ for The theme this year is Sheffield Hallam University will children and teenagers and Communication and be hosting a series of exciting Sheffield Volunteering will be during the week events will performances and interactive running interactive activities be taking place throughout activities for everyone to get throughout the week. the UK in a large and varied involved in during the February In addition to this there will range of organisations. The half-term. be performances from our South Yorkshire programme Student Week is a week-long student societies such as is jointly organised by The celebration showcasing all the Brainwaves, SingSoc, Capoeira University of Sheffield and positive contributions students drumming, belly dancing and Sheffield Hallam University. bring to Sheffield. So come much more. For a full programme of down and get involved! For more information go to: Science Week events (both Our Department of Music will www.sheffield.ac.uk/ public and schools) taking be performing throughout communityrelations place in our region visit the week, showcasing our To find out more about the website: students’ musical talent. Our the Dream bigger dreams www.scienceweeksy.org.uk Outreach team and University campaign please go to Enquiries: T: 0114 225 4888, of Sheffield School Laboratory www.shef.ac.uk/dream E: [email protected] Special Events Science Week public events taking place at The University of Sheffield Public Lecture PROJECT SUNSHINE: FOOD AND ENERGY SECURITY THURSDAY 17 MARCH, 6.15pm Professor Anthony Ryan, OBE, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield Union of Students Auditorium, Western Bank, S10 2TG Project Sunshine aims to harness the power of the sun to tackle the biggest challenge facing the world today: meeting the increasing food and energy needs of the world’s population in the context of an uncertain climate and global environment change. The project unites scientists across the traditional boundaries in both the pure and applied sciences. Together, they are looking for new ways to use the sun’s energy more efficiently to increase food Sheffield Industrial production and provide more Museums Trust & the Ken renewable energy. Hawley Collection Trust Project Sunshine stands COMMUNICATION AND for optimism. It focuses on TOOLS finding solutions: sustainable SUNDAY 20 MARCH, routes to food and energy 11.15am & 2.15pm security through collaborative research and innovation. It Ken Hawley will change the way scientists Kelham Island Museum, think and work. It will become Alma Street, S3 8RY the inspiration for a new Please book in advance, generation of scientists T: 0114 201 0613. Entry is free focused on solving the of charge, however, Kelham world’s problems. Island Museum entry fees Entry is free of charge, but by apply – adults £4, concessions ticket only via the website: £3, children free. There will www.shef.ac.uk/whatson/ be a host of free activities universitylectures/details/ taking place at Kelham Island project-sun-shine.html Museum on Science Sunday. Please check the websites for details: www.simt.co.uk and www.hawleytoolcollection.com E: [email protected] Special Events –– 01 thought, and cutting edge Materials and Materiality – interdisciplinary debate. With how physicists and sculptors a mission to bring together understand the stuff of the artists, scientists, and scholars world of all kinds, we have sought Bees and the Hive – artistic, to showcase the University biological, and literary views of of Sheffield as a centre for our favourite social insect public dialogue and intellectual exchange. The Invention of the ‘Fact’ – the epistemology of the In 2011, we are back with a ‘Scientific Revolution’ new programme of six events, including conversations Theology and Physics – ARTS-SCIENCE between physicists, sculptors, science and religion beyond climatologists, choreographers, The God Delusion ENCOUNTERS 2011 art historians, mathematicians, All welcome. Admission is free THURSDAYS, MARCH-MAY, zoologists, visual artists, but seats cannot be booked in 5.15-7.00pm specialists in early modern advance so come early to avoid thought, biblical scholars, and Jessica Dubow (Geography) disappointment. historians of science. Our and Richard Steadman-Jones guests will be talking on a The full programme and final (English) range of themes including: dates will be advertised on Humanities Research Institute the website in February: Sun and Sunshine – 34 Gell Street, S3 7QY and www.sheffield.ac.uk/arts-science photovoltaic technology, ICOSS 219 Portobello, S1 4DP sun-powered sculptures, ArtsScienceUoS For two years now, the and cultural climatology Arts-Science Encounters Geometries – Islamic have provided a forum for architecture, contemporary ArtsScienceUoS exciting speakers, provocative dance, and the topology of DNA Left: James VI&I enthroned copyright The Dean & Chapter of Hereford and the Mappa Mundi Trust. EXHIBITION: TELLING TALES OF KING JAMES’ BIBLE MONDAY 2 MAY-THURSDAY 30 JUNE Sheffield Cathedral, Church Street, S1 1HA YEARS OF KING King James’ Bible was not the JAMES’ BIBLE first English bible. So why are we still talking about it 400 years later? An exhibition A programme of events and exhibitions to mark the 400th prepared in consultation with anniversary of the King James Bible, or Authorized Version, Museums Sheffield. Co-ordinated by the Department of Biblical Studies, and in Entry is free and no booking is association with Sheffield Cathedral. Sheffield King James required. Find Telling Tales Bible Project is supported by the HEA Subject Centre for of King James’ Bible at other Philosophical and Religious Studies. UK venues: Further details at: www.sheffield.ac.uk/kjv/events www.sheffield.ac.uk/kjv/exhibition 02 –– Special Events Special Events IS THE BIBLE STILL THE BOOKS THAT MAKE THE POLITICS OF KING RELEVANT? THE BIBLE: FROM THE 1500s JAMES’ BIBLE IN 2011 TUESDAY 15 FEBRUARY TO THE PRESENT DAY THURSDAY 26 MAY, 5.30pm 6.00pm TUESDAY 24 MAY – SATURDAY The Rt Hon Frank Field MP, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, 28 MAY, 10.30am-3.30pm Chair of the 2011 King James G03, Jessop West Building, Sheffield Cathedral, Church Bible Trust S3 7RA Street, S1 1HA Richard Roberts Auditorium, A panel of academics, drawn Follow the tale of English bibles Brook Hill, S3 7HF from across the Faculty of Arts & from the 1300s, the days of In association with Equinox Humanities debate and discuss the Wycliffe’s hand-written bible, Publishing, Frank Field will relevance of biblical knowledge for and its Latin predecessor, speak about the initiation and the 21st century student. and discover why two South development of the 2011 Trust Yorkshire contributions to and its political importance. the BBC’s History of the HONEST DOUBT World have a place in the Seats should be reserved in TUESDAY 10 MAY, 6.30pm King James story. advance via the website: www.sheffield.ac.uk/kjv/events Sir Andrew Motion, Former poet-laureate (1999-2009) and BIBLICAL LITERACY & Trustee of the 2011 King James THE CURRICULUM Bible Trust. An interdisciplinary Auditorium, Richard Roberts conference Building, Brook Hill, S3 7HF WEDNESDAY 25 – SATURDAY Sir Andrew 28 MAY presents a programme of Teachers in many disciplines reflections and lament the lack of biblical readings about knowledge among their faith, the King students. What solutions can James Bible, be found? Speakers include Professor Yvonne Sherwood the meaning Unnamed exhibit, Glasgow of sound, and Andrew Motion. (University of Glasgow), Image copyright Gallery of Modern Art 2009. un-faith. Dr Liam Gearon (University of Image copyright © Anthony Schrag. © Adrian Mealing. Oxford), and the Rt Hon Frank Seats should be Field MP. reserved in advance. PUTTING WORDS IN OUR Delegate rates: Full £70/£50 MOUTHS: The King James low income/student, Day £35. Bible and the English In association with the Further details on the website at: Language School of East Asian Studies www.sheffield.ac.uk/kjv/events FRIDAY 27 MAY, 7.45pm THE IMPACT OF THE KING Gordon Campbell, Professor JAMES BIBLE ON THE In association with the of Renaissance Studies at the CHINESE-SPEAKING WORLD Faculty of Arts & Humanities University of Leicester, and WEDNESDAY 11 MAY, 6.15pm PERFORMING THE BIBLE author of Bible: The Story of the Archie Lee, Professor of King James Bible 1611-2011 (OUP) WEDNESDAY 25 MAY, 8.00pm Hebrew Bible at the Chinese Sheffield Cathedral, Church University of Hong Kong Sheffield Cathedral, Church Street, S1 1HA Street, S1 1HA Jessop West Exhibition Space, Upper Hanover Street / With Georg Friedrich Handel, Entrance for King James Bible Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, T S Eliot, Maya Angelou and lectures and events is free S3 7RA Pink Floyd as models, expect unless otherwise stated. wide-ranging interpretations For more information, see: The role of the biblical text in of the King James Bible.