Events archive

Description: This paper analyses the work of the Himsworth Committee, established initially to look into the safety of CS tear gas shortly after its use in Northern Ireland in 1969.

Description: A top surgeon is accused of a serious crime. Conviction would mean planned operations will not go ahead – and the evidence is far from conclusive. Or is this just another case of someone so important being above justice?The Justice Syndicate is a piece of playable theatre drawing on a jury format. It asks how we make decisions, how we deal with our preconceptions and how much you'd want strangers making judgments about you based on the contents of your phone. How will you vote?

Description: Join crystallographer Professor Brian Sutton and artist Dr Shelley James for an illuminating journey from the colourful tiling patterns of 13th century Alhambra to 21st century discovery of quasiperiodic lattices, via the ground-breaking discovery of left- and right-handed crystals by scientist and printmaker Louis Pasteur.

Description: How should academics deal with what is a potentially misleading binary between 'scholarly' and 'political' activity in order to pursue a 'committed' approach to academic work? Des Freeman, Goldsmiths, University of London, discusses in the second in the 'Reclaiming Higher Education' seminar series, supported by SSPP.

Description: The first in a new seminar series exploring issues of critical importance to the future of UK higher education, hosted by the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy.

Description: Through examining a series of four popular 1990s comedies about a fictional nomadic community called "Careful Village" I examine how comedy engages in a mode of "ludic modernism" in which humour is used to advance a modernist agenda aimed at creating both modern Tibetan subjects, and a set of linguistic practices by which these Tibetan subjects will communicate.

Description: You are warmly invited to attend our midwifery offer holder day on 14 March 2018

Description: Examining the planning and implementation of a gigantic oil development project in Timor-Leste, this paper seeks to complicate this binary distinction by showing how government officials employ animist techniques to accelerate the progress of extractivist development.

Description: In this presentation, I compare the experiences of gay Muslim men and women in two differing country contexts – in Malaysia, where Islam is the religion of the majority and the state religion, and in Britain, where it is a minority religion.

Description: The YTL Centre's Annual Lecture: Ideas of Identity and their Normative Status by Professor Thomas M. Scanlon (Harvard University)