Public lectures at the University
The programme for 2011/12 includes the following lectures to which members of the general public, staff and students are all very welcome. The list will be updated as more lecture titles become available.
This month's lectures
- GULP Wednesday 16 May 2012
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 5 West 2.3
Maths and the making of the modern world
Professor Chris Budd, Department of Mathematical Sciences- CDASFriday 18 May 2012
10am-1pm | 3 East 2.20
Reflection on mass fatalities: Historical lessons and future planning
Helen Frisby, Lucy Easthope, Victoria Bovill-Lamb
Book a place: cdas@bath.ac.uk- GULP Wednesday 30 May 2012
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 5 West 2.3
The forgotten 'Queen of Bath': Remembering author/mayoress Madame Sarah Grand
Maura Dunst, University of Hull- Gerald WaltersWednesday 23 May 2012
6.15pm | 5 West 2.4
Infernal combustion: money, power & competition
Margaret Heffernan, entrepreneur
Book a place: Paula McGraneForthcoming lectures
- GULP Wednesday 13 June 2012
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 5 West 2.3
The Olympic and sports movement after the Games of London 2012
Andrew Ryan, Director of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations- InauguralWednesday 20 June 2012
6.15pm | Venue-TBC
Active materials, structures & devices
Professor Chris Bowen, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- InauguralWednesday 27 June 2012
6.15pm | 3 West North 2.1
Inaugural Lecture - title TBC
Professor Mark Lindsay, Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology- InauguralWednesday 10 October 2012
6.15pm | Venue: TBC
Are buildings evil?
Professor David Coley, Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering
Previous lectures
- GULP Wednesday 5 October 2011
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
A nice cup of tea
Russell Bowes, freelance garden historian- BIME Friday 7 October 2011
7pm East 1.1
43rd Annual Lecture of Bath Institute of Medical Engineering (BIME)
Changing attitudes to disability
Baroness Masham of Ilton, president of BIME, chaired by Dr Elizabeth White - Head of Research & Development, College of Occupational Therapists
- GULP Wednesday 12 October 2011
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
An engineering adventure
Dan Johns, engineer- ICIAWednesday 12 October 2011
7pm BRLSI, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath
Bobby Baker: On the drawing of breath
Bobby Baker, Artist- Millennium Wednesday 12 October 2011
4:15pm | 3 West North 2.1
The psychology of road safety
Dr Ian Walker, Department of Psychology, University of Bath- GULP Wednesday 19 October 2011
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Towering ambition: William Beckford and his buildings in Wiltshire and Bath
Dr Amy Frost, Bath Preservation Trust- GULP Wednesday 26 October 2011
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Moon gods, demons & the sacred disease: a history of epilepsy & how we treat it
Dr Roland Jones, Neuropharmacologist at the University of Bath- CDASFriday 28 October 2011
1.30pm-5pm Holburne Museum, Bath
Remains of the dead
Lucy Easthope, Richard Banks, Nigel Starck
Book a place: cdas@bath.ac.uk- Millennium Wednesday 2 November 2011
4:15pm | 3 West North 2.1
Life and nuclear radiation
Professor Wade Alison, Department of Physics, University of Oxford- GULP Wednesday 2 November 2011
5.15pm | Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Journeys in indigo: from ancient Arabia to modern Manhattan
Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter- ICIAWednesday 2 November 2011
6pm | East Building
Alan Cotton: A sense of place
Alan Cotton, Honorary Professor of Art at the University of Bath
- RESEARCH Tuesday 8 November 2011
6.15pm | 5 West 2.3
Energy storage - The missing link
Professor Peter Bruce, St Andrews University
Tickets: Gail Gillespie
- Millennium Wednesday 9 November 2011
4:15pm | CHANGE OF VENUE - University Hall
Our climate is changing and why we are responsible
Professor Phil Jones, Director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU); School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia- GULP Wednesday 9 November 2011
5.15pm | Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Two Great War poets: Ivor Gurney and Wilfred Owen
Professor Jon Stallworthy and Dr Jane Potter- GULP Wednesday 16 November 2011
5.15pm | Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
National Trust gardens in the South West of England
Margaret Clark, domestic science teacher and dietician- HERSCHEL Thursday 17 November 2011
7pm | Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Galaxy jets: an exhaustive business
Professor Diana Worrall- Millennium Wednesday 23 November 2011
4:15pm | 3 West North 2.1
How to take apart a risk story in the news
Professor David Speigalhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk; Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge- InauguralWednesday 30 November 2011
5.15pm | East 1.1 |
On the secrets of motivation
Professor Richard Ryan, Department for Health
Book a place: S.E.Roberts@bath.ac.uk | 01225 384034- CDASFriday 9 December 2011
10am-1pm | 3 East 2.20
Death education in the UK
Phil Stone, Eve Richardson, Christine Valentine and Kate Woodthorpe
Book a place: cdas@bath.ac.uk- Millennium Wednesday 8 February 2012
4:15pm | 3 West North 2.1
Friends in low places and how to help them: gut microbiota in health & disease
Professor Glenn Gibson, Food & Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading- GULP Wednesday 8 February 2012
5.15pm | University Hall
In association with the Royal Geographical Society
The Adventurers' "Grand Slam"
David Hempleman-Adams, explorer- GULP Wednesday 15 February 2012
5.15pm | Lecture Theatre 8W 1.1
Greco-Mania
Roger Vlitos, photographer & writer- Millennium Wednesday 22 February 2012
4:15pm | 3 West North 2.1
Blue seas research: predators and prey in an ever changing system
Dr John Houghton, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast- GULP Wednesday 22 February 2012
5.15pm | Lecture Theatre 8W 1.1
The science of sports performance & injury prevention
Dr James Bilzon, Senior Lecturer in Human & Applied Physiology and Head of Department for Health, University of Bath- CDASFriday 24 February 2012
11am-3.30pm | 3 East 2.20
Workshop: The sociology of music & death (with particular reference to funerals)
Tony Walter, Centre for Death & Society with Lisa McCormick & Tia DeNora, Exeter Sociology of the Arts
Book a place: c.staley@bath.ac.uk- GULP Wednesday 29 February 2012
5.15pm | Lecture Theatre 8W 1.1
Famine & plague in early modern England
Ronald Hutton, Professor of History, Bristol University- SHOWCASEThursday 1 March 2012
2.15-3.45pm | 3 East 2.2
Knowledge Transfer Accounts: funded research with companies - case studies
Professor Rod Scott, Biology & Biochemistry; Dr Danae Stanton Fraser, Psychology; Professor Pete Walker, Architecture & Civil Engineering
Free tickets: G.Gillespie@bath.ac.uk | 01225 383659- CDASFriday 2 March 2012
10am-1pm | 3 East 2.20
Researching sensitive issues
Justin Rogers, Beatrice Godwin, Leah Wild, Joe Devine
Book a place: cdas@bath.ac.uk- BATH LIT Friday 2 March 2012
1-2pm in Carpenter House, Room G3
Part of the Bath Literature Festival
The Paralympics legacy
Dr James Bilzon, Senior Lecturer in Human & Applied Physiology and Head of the Department for Health
Book a free place: G.Gillespie@bath.ac.uk | 01225 383659- BATH LIT Saturday 3 March 2012
2.45-3.45pm | Bath Mineral Hospital
Part of the Bath Literature Festival
How did the working class go from 'salt of the earth' to ‘scum of the earth’?
Owen Jones and Professor Guy Standing, Department of Social & Policy Sciences
Tickets Bath Literature Office | 01225 463362
£8 (£7 concs)- FAITH Monday 5 March 2012
6.30pm | 8W 3.22
Faith & the environment
Professor Gavin D'Costa, Rabbi Natan Levy, Imam Rashad Azami
- GULP Wednesday 7 March 2012
5.15pm | Lecture Theatre 8W 1.1
Public libraries: past, present, future
Howard Nicholson, University Librarian, University of Bath
- BATH TAPSWednesday 7 March 2012
7pm | University Hall
Maths in & out of the zoo
Professor Chris Budd, Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath
Free tickets: zt230@bath.ac.uk- ICIAWednesday 7 March 2012
7pm, Reception from 6pm | ICIA Art Space 2Jo Longhurst in conversation with Dr Lynn Turner
Dr Lynn Turner (Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London) & artist Jo Longhurst- Millennium Wednesday 14 March 2012
4:15pm | 3 West North 2.1
2012: A small space odyssey with luminescent molecules
Professor A Prasanna de Silva, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast- GULP Wednesday 14 March 2012
5.15pm | Lecture Theatre 8W 1.1
Urban Peregrines - Bath's very own speed hunters!
Ed Drewitt, learning officer for Bristol Dinosaur Project, University of Bristol
- RESEARCH Thursday 15 March 2012
6.15pm | 8 West 2.1
"From both sides now": Reflections on poverty research and politics
Baroness Ruth Lister, CBE, FBA, AcSS
Free tickets: Gail Gillespie | 01225 383659- COMP SCI Thursday 15 March 2012
12:30-2pm | 4East 3.10
The AlloSphere: a stunning new way to see scientific data
Professor JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, University of California- GULP Wednesday 21 March 2012
5.15pm | Lecture Theatre 8West 1.1
Protecting architectural World Heritage from seismic hazard
Dr Dina D'Ayala, Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering
- InauguralWednesday 21 March 2012
6.15pm | 3 West North 2.1 |
Electrifying interfaces: From electric kites to solar water
Professor Frank Marken, Department of Chemistry
Free tickets: Sarah Robinson | Ext 4592
- ICIAThursday 22 March 2012
Reception from 5.30pm | 8West 1.1Artist lecture - Peter Randall-Page
Peter Randall-Page artist; introduced by Professor Alan Cotton (Honorary Professor of Art at the University)
Free entrance, but advance booking advisable: 01225 386777- FOUNDERS Wednesday 4 April 2012
5.30-6.45 pm | East Building Lecture Theatre
Planets, life and the Universe
Lord Rees, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
Free tickets: Gail Gillespie | 01225 383659 SOLD OUT- Foreign Languages Wednesday 25 April 2012
7.30pm | TBC
Working across cultures
Isabella Stefanutti
Tickets: flc@bath.ac.uk or call 01225 383991
- InauguralWednesday 25 April 2012
6.15pm | 3 West North 2.1 |
Programs as strategies
Professor Guy McCusker, Department of Computer Sciences
Tickets: Sarah Robinson 01225 384592, Wessex House 3.34- ParkinTuesday 1 May 2012
6pm | 3 West North 2.1 |
Charles Darwin & beer advertising with some genetics thrown in
Professor Hamish Spencer, Director of the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology & Evolution, University of Otago
- GULP Wednesday 2 May 2012
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Hounds for Heroes
June ward, Victoria & Albert Museum