Events archive

Description: A night of spoken word, poetry and performance exploring the personal and political, inspired by the important and recent discussions around #MeToo and the Repeal of the 8th Pro-Choice movement in Ireland.

Description: 1903 - a steam ship commission, a Paris-based Irish businessman and sea escape across international waters to Russia. How did the steam yacht "Caroline" built in Yarrow become a bit player in the Russo-Japanese War?

Description: In 2016, the Japanese government articulated its Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy. This vision has been regarded by international observers as an alternative to the Chinese-sponsored Belt and Road Initiative. What are its components? What is the maritime contribution to this vision? Admiral Takei - retired Chief of Maritime Staff and author of strategic documents that have defined the country's naval behaviour over the past decades explains its meaning from a Japanese naval perspective.

Description: John O'Neil (King's), 'Cervantes's Numancia: Staging Dissent'. Part of the Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies research seminar series 2017/18

Description: Professor Lúcia Sá, Professor of Brazilian Studies (University of Manchester), 'Aetiology and transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses and native Amazonian narratives'. Part of the Joint Modern Languages Research Seminar series 2017/18.

Description: The Centre for Grand Strategy will host a debate on whether the Belt and Road Initiative constitutes a Chinese grand strategy

Description: In her talk, Cynthia Connolly explores the therapeutics revolution on the ground in the 1930s and 1940s as first the sulphonamides, then penicillin, became available.

Description: You are warmly invited to attend our children's nursing and mental health nursing offer holder day on 11 April 2018

Description: A symposium on Global Health Justice: Access to Medicines and Minimum Core Obligations.