Public Events Programme 2012

January 2012

Thursday 12 January 2012
Open Access: The New Future of Academic Publishing?
Panel Discussion, 6.30pm

Tuesday 24 January 2012
The Creative Process - A Multidisciplinary Examination (Sciences)
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm

Tuesday 31 January 2012
Democracy, the Market and Human Behaviour
Anglo-German Foundation Lecture, by Professor Carl Christian von Weizsäcker, 6.00pm

February 2012

Wednesday 8 February 2012
Why Dickens?
Professor John Carey FBA in conversation with Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, 6.00pm
FULLY BOOKED

Wednesday 15 February 2012
From Protestors to Government Partners: Chambers of Commerce 1767-2012
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm

Wednesday 22 February 2012
The Creative Process - A Multidisciplinary Examination (Social Sciences)
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm

Tuesday 28 February 2012
Scotland and the United Kingdom
Conference, 10.30am-4.15pm

March 2012

Thursday 8 March 2012
International Women's Day: Celebrating Women in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm

Thursday 8 March 2012
What it Means to be Human: New Perspectives on the  Boundaries of Human Nature
Seminar, 2.00pm
Panel Discussion, 6.30pm (Venue: Royal Society)

Wednesday 14 March 2012
Deadly Embrace: War, Distance and Intimacy
The British Academy Lecture, by Professor Derek Gregory FBA, 6.00pm

Thursday 22 March 2012
The Creative Process - A Multidisciplinary Examination (Arts and Humanities)
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm

Wednesday 28 March 2012
An uncommon legacy? The 350th Anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer
Symposium, 10.45am-5.30pm

April

Monday 2 April 2012
Autism, Ethics and the Good Life
Conference, 9.30am-6.00pm

Thursday & Friday, 19 & 20 April 2012
Memory and Attention: Mechanisms of Maintenance and Selection
Conference, 9.00am-6.00pm     
FULLY BOOKED

Friday 27 April 2012
Climate Change Litigation,  Policy and Mobilization
Panel Discussions, 2.00pm-5.30pm

Monday 30 April 2012
Ben Jonson: A Re-assessment
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm

May

Tuesday 1 May 2012
Shakespeare and the Reformation
British Academy Shakespeare Lecture, by Professor Brian Cummings, 6.00pm

Friday 11 May 2012
Language, Community, Identity
Panel Discussion, 4.15pm-6.00pm

Thursday & Friday 17 & 18 May 2012
Modelling for Policy
Conference, 9.00am-5.00pm

June

Wednesday 6 June 2012
Mario Vargas Llosa
In-conversation event, 6.00pm
(Venue: Royal Society)

Wednesday 20 June 2012
Training, Cheating, Winning, Praising: Athletes and Shows in Papyri from Roman Egypt
Lectures, 6.00pm-7.15pm

Thursday-Saturday 21-23 June 2012
Insular Books: Vernacular Miscellanies in Late Medieval Britain
Conference, 12.00pm-4.00pm

July

Thursday & Friday, 5 & 6 July 2012
Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Conflict in World Fiction since 1989
Conference, 9.30am-6.00pm

Thursday 5 July 2012
Ancient Myth and the Modern Novel
Performance Event, 5.00pm