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Public events at UCL September–December 2013

Welcome to Brain Food, UCL’s public events leaflet, showcasing a range of public talks, lectures, exhibitions, workshops, film screenings and performances taking place at the university throughout autumn 2013.

The ever popular UCL Lunch Hour Lectures return for an exciting brand new season, with topics covering population growth, sexual orientation in the Middle Ages and whether rap should be incorporated into the school syllabus (p.15–19).

See our activities section, p.10–14, if you’re looking for something fun and inspiring to do. Walking tours, hat-making and a hands-on astronomy festival are just some of the highlights this autumn.

The events listed here are only a small selection of what’s on offer: for more information on each event or for a full listing, please visit our online events calendar:

www.ucl.ac.uk/events

Cover image: Professor Challenger by Anthony Diecidue. See page 9 for event details of the ‘Challenger unbound’ symposium. Mon 9 Dec | 9am–7pm

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Lunch Hour Lectures 15

Performances 20

Exhibitions 26

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Show’N’Tell: Bones

As part of this series, we invite UCL researchers to showcase just one object from the museum’s collection of 68,000 and tell you what they know about it. Joining us this time ‘round will be Ben Garrod, a PhD student studying primate evolution, but one who has a long-held passion for all things bone. Fri 20 Sep | 1–2pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

LandSCAPE

Join us for an afternoon dedicated to exploring the theme of landscape, curated by UCL’s Student Engagers and illustrated using work from the UCL Art Museum. From the aesthetics of the pastoral horizon to blitzed urban spaces, visitors will go to various locations to discuss various ways of experiencing scape.Fri 6 Sep | 2–5pm UCL Art Museum m.rouleau@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540

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Cynocephalus skeleton from the UCL Grant Museum of Zoology. ‘Show’N’Tell’, 20 September 1–2pm.

Latin as a language of translation in Elizabethan England

Translating from and into Latin in 16th- and 17th-century England was an exercise to create linguistic fluency, but also to make writings available to a larger number of readers. This lecture by Professor Gesine Manuwald (UCL Greek and Latin) will shed light on translation practices and the educational context in the Elizabethan period.Thurs 10 Oct | 6.30–8pm Pre-booking essential Christopher Ingold XLG1 Chemistry LT g.brodie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 1317

Wellbeing in the ancient world

Carole Reeves (UCL Science & Technology Studies) explores the search for wellbeing in the ancient past. Attention to one’s diet, lifestyle, environment, rest, exercise, sex life, bowel movements and emotional state were integral to preserving health and maintaining wellbeing in communities from Cathay to Carthage.Thurs 3 Oct | 6.30–8pm Pre-booking essential UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology d.challis@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Jewish identity and Israeli foreign policy

This lecture by Dr Christopher Schilling (Visiting Professor, Universidad de Buenos Aires) will focus on the concept of friendship within the Talmud and its implications for the understanding of Israeli foreign policy. Its aim is also to understand the importance for Israel of making friends among the international community of states. Thurs 10 Oct | 6.45–8pm Pearson Lecture Theatre ijs@ucl.ac.uk | +44 (0)20 7679 3520

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What has technology ever done for animals?

Join the team from the UCL Grant Museum of Zoology for an evening of discussion and demonstrations of some of the latest technological innovations in the field of wildlife conservation from the Technology for Nature Team, as we ask: what has technology ever done for animals?Fri 18 Oct | 6.30–8.30pm Old Refectory, UCL main campus zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

‘No tincture of learning’?: Aphra Behn as (re)writer and translator

Aphra Behn (1640–89) was one of the foremost female writers and translators in Europe of her time. In this lecture, Dr Alison Martin (University of Reading) will explore how she styled herself as a translator of early scientific writing, before comparing her with British women working in the 18th and 19th centuries.Thurs 24 Oct | 6–7.30pm Pre-booking essential Christopher Ingold XLG1 Chemistry LT g.brodie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 1317

Egypt on the stage

A series of events looking at Egypt on the stage - and exploring, among many themes, the popularity and origins of the Sand Dance. Featuring talks, screenings and demonstrations.Tues 15 & Weds 16 Oct | 6pm Sat 19 Oct | 1pm Pre-booking essential UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology h.pike@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

The Jews from the island of Rhodes

The ancient Ottoman Sephardic Jewish community of Rhodes was deported to Auschwitz in June 1944 and perished there. Professor Aron Rodrigue (Stanford University) will focus on the diaspora of Rhodes Jewry, especially after the Holocaust, and explore how and why they created such an unusual and distinctive Sephardic global diasporic identity. Mon 21 Oct | 6.45–8pm Chadwick Lecture Theatre UCL main campus ijs@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 3520

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Aphra Behn, writer and translator. ‘No tincture of learning’, 24 October 6–7.30pm.

Modernist Egyptian sculpture

An exploration of the different ways in which Egyptian sculpture has influenced 20th century modernist artists in Britain, particularly Jacob Epstein, Ronald Moody and Edna Manley. Researchers on this project also consider how ideas around ‘primitivism’, such as those voiced by Flinders Petrie, influenced attitudes to African sculpture. Thurs 24 Oct | 6.30–8pm Pre-booking essential UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology d.challis@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Rescue during the Holocaust: sources and causes

In a lecture drawing from his forthcoming book on the causes of the Holocaust, and based upon survivor sources drawn from several archives, Professor Timothy Snyder (Yale University) will seek to explain the reasons why the rescue of Jews was more or less likely at different times and places in Europe. Weds 30 Oct | 6.45–8pm Pearson Lecture Theatre ijs@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 3520

A piece from the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. More at ‘Modernist Egyptian sculpture’, 24 October 6.30–8pm.

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Ideas Slam

A chance to meet the Petrie’s new curator Alice Stevenson as she chairs an Ideas Slam. Two Egyptologists present their theories on the origins and purposes of objects from the collection and you, the audience, decide which you prefer. Join in the debate and bring your own ideas too.Thurs 7 Nov | 6–8pm Pre-booking essential UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology h.pike@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

The 2013 UCL Lancet Lecture: Charity does not rhyme with development

Dr Agnes Binagwaho, Minister of Health for the Republic of Rwanda, will share her country’s experiences mobilising partnerships on the long road to universal health coverage. She will outline how open access research might reinvigorate the pursuit of health for all. Weds 6 Nov | 5.30–7pm Pre-booking essential (from 9 September) Kennedy Lecture Theatre UCL Institute of Child Health www.ucllancetlecture2013.eventbrite.co.uk +44 (0)20 3108 3842

A night of terror from the tomb

The first half of the 20th century contributed substantially to the popularisation of ancient Egypt in the public imagination. Join fragrance expert Odette Toilette and Egyptologist John J. Johnston on an exploration, through image, text and scent, to create a spookily stylish atmosphere in the surroundings of the Petrie Museum.Thurs 31 Oct | 6–8pm Pre-booking essential UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology h.pike@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Literalism, expediency and decorum: the contradictions of Victorian translation publishing

This paper by Dr Carol O’Sullivan (University of Bristol) focuses on series publishing in the Victorian period and, in particular, on Henry Bohn, who launched several commercially successful and influential book series including the ‘Standard Library’ and the ‘Classical Library’. Thurs 14 Nov | 6–7.30pm Pre-booking essential Christopher Ingold XLG1 Chemistry LT g.brodie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 1317

‘A night of terror from the tomb’, 31 October 6–8pm.

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Dragonfly fossil from the UCL Grant Museum of Zoology. ‘17th Annual Grant Lecture’, 19 November 6.30–9pm.

17th Annual Grant Lecture: Fossils, climate change and the future of life on earth

Using fossil evidence, Dr Paul Upchurch (UCL Earth Sciences) presents the latest findings on the complex relationship between global climate change and how animals have been spread around the world. The lecture is followed by a free drinks reception and a private view of the Grant Museum. Tues 19 Nov | 6.30–9pm JZ Young Lecture Theatre d.veall@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

The amazing adventures of a Hebrew manuscript from medieval England

Hebrew manuscripts produced in medieval England have been attracting increasing scholarly attention. Dr Theodor Dunkelgrün (University of Cambridge) will trace the extraordinary story of one Hebrew manuscript written before the expulsion of Jews from England in 1290. Who wrote it? Who owned it? Who stole it? And who tried to describe it? Thurs 21 Nov | 6.45–8pm Pearson Lecture Theatre ijs@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 3520

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Pop-up talk: Egyptian and Indian women at the interwar Slade School of Fine Art

Curator Gemma Romain explores the history of the Slade in the interwar period, with a focus on some of the women of Egyptian and Indian heritage who studied there. It focuses on uncovering traces in the archives that reveal aspects of the experiences of interwar students of African and Asian heritage.Tues 26 Nov | 1–2pm UCL Art Museum m.rouleau@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540

My father – the good Nazi?

Otto von Wächter was an indicted war criminal implicated in the deaths of thousands of Jews. So how can his son, Horst, refuse to condemn him? Professor Philippe Sands (UCL Laws) spoke to him for a book on the origins of international criminal law. This talk will be based on their conversations. Weds 27 Nov | 6.45–8pm Pearson Lecture Theatre ijs@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 3520

Schleiermacher and Plato, hermeneutics and translation

Schleiermacher’s lecture On the different methods of translating is famous for contrasting the method of “bringing the foreign author to the reader” with that of “taking the reader to the foreign author”. Professor Theo Hermans (UCL Dutch) will argue that Schleiermacher developed his hermeneutic theory largely as a result of translating Plato. Thurs 28 Nov | 6–7.30pm Pre-booking essential Christopher Ingold XLG1 Chemistry LT g.brodie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 1317

The intellectual consequences of the First World War

Following the First World War, John Maynard Keynes became famous for his book, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, holding Lloyd George particularly responsible for the defects of the Versailles peace treaty. Peter Clarke (Emeritus Professor, University of Cambridge) will explore the wider clash of ideas between the two men.Weds 27 Nov | 6–7pm Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre History.office@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 1340

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Gemma Romain talks ‘Egyptian and Indian women at the interwar Slade School of Fine Art’. 26 November 1–2pm.

Challenger unbound

A century has passed since the publication of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. This one-day symposium offers an ideal opportunity to take stock of the Professor Challenger narratives and reassess what these three novels and two short stories can offer to new generations of scholars, students and enthusiasts. Mon 9 Dec | 9am–7pm | symposium Pre-booking essential Haldane Room wai.ue.10@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/english/News-and-Events +44 (0)78 4942 8351

‘Transportation is civilisation’: Ezra Pound’s poetics of translation

In this lecture, Dr Andrés Claro (Universidad de Chile) will argue that Ezra Pound’s groundbreaking poetics of translation – “plain meaning” charged by musical, imagistic or contextual effects – overlap with his best legacy as a writer, with consequent impact on modernist and contemporary literature.Thurs 12 Dec | 6–7.30pm Pre-booking essential Christopher Ingold XLG1 Chemistry LT g.brodie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 1317

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World at the ‘Challenger unbound’ symposium. 9 December 9–7pm.

MayaGlyphs 2013

Come to ‘Maya at the Thames’ for some fun and games! The second Annual Maya Hieroglyphics workshop at the UCL Institute of Archaeology will give you the opportunity to learn about glyphs, iconography and the Mesoamerican ballgame – including the practical application of your knowledge in a Maya ballgame tournament! Fri 20–Sun 22 Sep | Fri 5.30–7.30pm, Sat 10am–6pm, Sun 10am–4pm Pre-booking essential UCL Institute of Archaeology mayaglyphsucl@gmail.com www.ucl.ac.uk/mayaglyphs

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Activities Workshops Family events

Open House London 2013

UCL opens its doors to the public for this annual showcase of the capital’s architecture. UCL’s Museums & Collections will also be open and offering family activities.Sat 21 Sep | tours 9.30am–2pm UCL main campus www.londonopenhouse.org

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Your universe, UCL Festival of Astronomy: exhibits and lectures for schools and the general public

Learn all about the lives of stars, from formation to death. Play God by building the universe from the Big Bang to our days. Talk to our young scientists who are studying newly discovered planets around distant stars and the mysteries hidden behind the dark universe.Thurs 10–Sat 12 Oct | 11am–6pm UCL main campus fd@star.ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)7974917878

Bloomsbury Festival: Life under the waves

Make sure you pack your scuba equipment as we take you under the waves to discover the amazing animals that make the sea their home. Bring along your intrepid young oceanologists and dive underwater to peer into the mouth of a bull shark, tickle a turtle and arm-wrestle a lobster. Sat 19 & Sun 20 Oct | 1–4.30pm | drop in UCL Grant Museum of Zoology d.veall@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Explore zoology

Ever wondered what the skin of a python feels like or how sharp a shark’s tooth is or the number of spots a leopard has? Well, bring along your budding zoologists and be inspired to ask these questions and many more with our enthusiastic museum educators. Sat 28 Sep–Sat 23 Nov | 1–4.30pm | drop in UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Learn more about antennae galaxies at the ‘UCL Festival of Astronomy’, 10–12 October, 11am–6pm.

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Focus on the Positive

For a very special ‘Focus on the Positive’, the Grant Museum welcomes some of UCL’s inspiring researchers who will tackle the big issues of today, inspired by the collection. Join us to hear UCL researchers pitch their ideas, and you can decide which ones get funded. Thurs 24 Oct | 7–8.30pm Pre-booking essential, £5 UCL Grant Museum of Zoology www.focuspositive.eventbrite.co.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Half-term activity: Hungry, hungry herbivores

From dugongs to hippos and camels to snails, join us this half-term as we investigate some huge herbivores and some marvellous munchers. Take part in our fun specimen-based activities and discover which animal is the hungriest herbivore plus really important questions such as who produces the most poo. Mon 28 Oct–Sat 2 Nov | 1–4.30pm | drop in UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

The subversive millinery

Join us at UCL Art Museum for a unique evening of “anti-establishment” millinery. You will look at the creation and the cultural history of headpieces with Dr Susannah Walker, artist and teaching fellow in UCL History of Art, and make your own fascinator out of recycled materials.Thurs 31 Oct | 6–8.30pm Pre-booking essential at www.subversive-millinery.eventbrite.co.uk UCL Art Museum m.rouleau@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540

Black Bloomsbury: A walking tour

Join curator Gemma Romain on a walking tour through Bloomsbury, exploring histories of the African and Asian presence in the area during the 1920s and 1930s. Learn about the Indian Students Union, black visitors to the British Museum Reading Room and the fight against the ‘colour bar’ in the area.Sat 26 Oct | 12–1.30pm Start at UCL Art Museum m.rouleau@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540

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Halloween at the Grant

Where better to spend Halloween than in a room of scary skeletons and skulls? Join us, if you dare, for a special late opening and discover the museum after dark and uncover some ghoulish animal facts along the way with Halloween-themed specimen labels. Thurs 31 Oct | 6.30–9pm Tickets £5 on the door, includes a glass of wine or soft drink UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

See the size of a hippopotamus’s teeth: ‘Hungry herbivores’. 28 October–2 November, 1–4.30pm daily.

Make your own fascinator at the UCL Art Museum, ‘The subversive millinery’. 31 October, 6.00–8.30pm.

Festival of Geology: UCL, the Geologists’ Association and Rockwatch

Handle fantastic fossils, marvellous minerals and remarkable rocks. Try your hand at gem panning, identifying minerals and casting fossils, or come and listen to the range of talks on topics as varied as tropical forests at the poles, Mars exploration or the colour of dinosaurs. Suitable for all ages.Sat 2 Nov | 10.30am–4.30pm Wilkins Building, UCL main campus +44 (0)20 7679 7900 festival@geologistsassociation.org.uk

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Pop-up workshop: 3D scanning

Join us at UCL Art Museum for a pop-up workshop on 3D scanning curated by Mona Hess, Research Assistant and PhD candidate in UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering.Tues 19 Nov | 1–2pm UCL Art Museum m.rouleau@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540

Petrie’s set – a seasonal walking tour of Egyptological Bloomsbury

Join Egyptologist John J. Johnston as he takes you around the regular haunts of Professor Sir William Flinders Petrie and his fascinating circle from the ‘Golden Age’ of British Egyptology who lived and worked in Bloomsbury between 1882 and 1933. Mince pies and mulled wine will be served at the start. Fri 6 Dec | 7–9pm Pre-booking essential Start at UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology d.challis@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Floe 004 one of the ice floes which were 3D scanned by ScanLAB in the Arctic in September 2011. See more at the Art Museum ‘3D Scanning workshop’, 19 November, 1–2pm.

UCL Museums treasure hunt: food for thought!

Let the hunger lead you on a hunt through UCL’s Museums. Solve the clues to discover ancient eating habits, the animals that we call lunch and exactly how edible rocks are. There are prizes to be won by the team who solves and collects all the artefacts required from art, geology, Egyptian archaeology and zoology. Fri 8 Nov | 6.30–9pm Followed by free drinks reception and private view of the UCL Grant Museum of Zoology JZ Young Lecture Theatre +44 (02)0 3108 2052 zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk

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Lunch Hour Lectures

Tuesdays and Thursdays 1.15–1.55pm

Darwin Lecture Theatre (accessed via Malet Place) Free, no need to book.Places are on a first-come, first-served basis. Please arrive by 1pm to avoid disappointment. c.dean@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 3839 Watch live: www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl/streamed Watch online: www.youtube.com/ucllhl

UCL President and Provost inaugural Lunch Hour LectureProfessor Michael Arthur

New UCL President and Provost Professor Michael Arthur opens the 2013/14 Lunch Hour Lecture programme by outlining his vision for the future of UCL. Please note that this lecture is being held in the Bloomsbury Theatre and will start at 1pm. Doors to the theatre will open at 12.15pm, with seats allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.Thurs 3 Oct | 1–2pm UCL Bloomsbury Theatre

LOLZ! The science of laughterProfessor Sophie Scott UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

If you ask people what makes them laugh, they will say “jokes”: however, if you look at when they laugh, a very different pattern emerges, in which laughter can be seen as an extremely important social emotion. This talk will explore the science of laughter and the ways that it is processed in our brains. Tues 8 Oct

Patterns of natureProfessor Sofia Olhede UCL Statistical Science

Scientists try to understand apparent patterns and structures from data. This is complicated because patterns can be deceiving; we are apt to see structure in noise. Professor Olhede will talk about her research in building statistical models to understand data and how we can model phenomena in time and space.Thurs 17 Oct

Holding it straight: sexual orientation in the Middle AgesDr Bob Mills UCL History of Art

Historians tend to be reticent about applying the phrase ‘sexual orientation’ to pre-Victorian periods, but should we be so quick to dismiss the concept? Focusing on depictions of virgins and sodomites – two seemingly opposing categories – this talk will explore how medieval encounters with sex were shaped by concepts of space and orientation. Tues 22 Oct

Lunch Hour Lectures

Dr Dre in the classroomProfessor John Sutherland UCL English

Is rap/hip hop, as its proponents claim, the poetry of the contemporary street, and, if so, should it be incorporated into the syllabus? John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of English at UCL. Thurs 10 Oct

Global growth vs. human health: finding the balanceProfessor Judith Stephenson UCL Institute for Women’s Health

Population growth, global health, economic development and climate change are some of the big challenges that we face in the 21st century. This talk takes a historical look at how they are interconnected and what that might mean for the future. Tues 15 Oct

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Technology for natureProfessor Kate Jones UCL Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research

Wild nature is declining rapidly as humans use more of the Earth’s resources and change climate patterns. Scientists studying the impact on wildlife and ecosystems now have access to huge amounts of data about our changing environment via new smartphone apps and other technology. The challenge now is how to analyse it! Thurs 24 Oct

A good start in lifeProfessor Yvonne Kelly UCL Epidemiology & Public Health

The more advantages a child has early in life, the better their health and socio-economic circumstances in adulthood. This talk will examine what factors during pregnancy and the early years of life set children off on better life trajectories, and what can be done to ensure that every child has a good childhood.Tues 29 Oct

Professor John Sutherland talks rap/hip hop: ‘Dr Dre in the classroom’, 10 October 1.15–1.55pm.

Animating architectureRuari Glynn UCL Bartlett School of Architecture

Traditionally, we perceive the built environment to be inert and lifeless, but this is being challenged as our world is increasingly inhabited by artificially intelligent systems. Ruairi Glynn will present his recent commission for Tate Modern and talk about his practice bringing together perceptual psychology, interaction design, puppetry and robotics. Thurs 31 Oct

After Fukushima: risk and resilience to disasters in JapanProfessor Peter Sammonds UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction

The Japanese islands face an extraordinary range of natural hazards – earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunami, lahars and tropical cyclones. In the wake of the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster, Professor Sammonds looks at the impact of disasters, recovery efforts and the building of resilience to natural hazards in Japan. Tues 19 Nov

What goes on in the mind of a London cabbie?Dr Hugo Spiers UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience

Navigating a city such as London is a challenge. How do we, and the capital’s expert cabbies, use our brains to do this? New neuro-scientific research is beginning to reveal the secrets. Thurs 21 Nov

Lunch Hour Lectures

Learning from vaccine scares: MMR and beyondDr Helen Bedford UCL Institute of Child Health

After clean water, childhood immunisation is the most effective intervention for protecting children against infectious diseases. This lecture will review recent vaccine safety scares and how we might learn from such events to ensure successful immunisation programmes in the future. Tues 12 Nov

Friday nights with Caine and Christie: remembering 1960s cinema-goingDr Matthew Jones UCL History

Cinema has long been associated with memory – its flickering images recalling past moments. However, what happens when we remember cinema itself? Is it the films we recall, or the experience of being in the darkened auditorium? This talk presents preliminary findings from the ongoing project, ‘Cultural Memory and British Cinema-going of the 1960s’. Thurs 14 Nov

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Encounters with portraiture: exploring with the pencil and lensDryden Goodwin UCL Slade School of Fine Art

Artist and UCL Reader in Fine Art Dryden Goodwin will discuss his work engaging with expanded notions of portraiture. This lecture, coinciding with the UCL Slade’s print fair, will open up the lines in his practice between anonymity and intimacy, public and private, singular worlds and group dynamics. Tues 26 Nov

Does gender make you sick?Dr Sarah Hawkes UCL Population Health Sciences

Men take more risks with their health, get sicker and die younger than women do. But policies focusing on the health needs of men are notably absent from the strategies of global health organisations. This talk will discuss how we might move forward to develop truly gender-equitable global health goals.Thurs 28 Nov

Antibiotics: ever diminishing returnsProfessor Peter Taylor UCL School of Pharmacy

Antibiotics are among the most beneficial drugs ever introduced into clinical practice. However, 80 years on from the discovery of penicillin, the abuse of antibiotics has led to the evolution of multidrug-resistant pathogens. New ways of thinking about bacterial infections and their control may provide society with the means to tackle these urgent threats. Tues 3 Dec

Unravelling the mysteries of StonehengeDr Mike Parker Pearson UCL Institute of Archaeology

Stonehenge is one of the great mysteries of archaeology. Since 2003, there has been a major programme of research into this enigmatic monument, revealing entirely new findings about its age, its purpose and its context within its surrounding landscape. This lecture will cover some of the highlights of these recent investigations. Thurs 5 Dec

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Performances Film screeningsMusic

The Petrie Film Club Launch

Join us for the launch of the Petrie Film Club – a chance to donate to the Petrie as a member of the club and see up to six special screenings of film and TV work throughout the year with introductory talks, discussion and drinks in the atmospheric museum itself. Thurs 26 Sep | 6–8.30pm | film screening Pre-booking essential UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology h.pike@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Space Showoff

Space Showoff is an anarchic space-themed cabaret night celebrating the European Planetary Science Congress at UCL this September. Join top space experts, comedians and performers from UCL and beyond for a night that’ll be funny, educational and stuffed to the brim with planets, moons, stars and other space-y goodness. Thurs 12 Sep | 7.30–10pm Pre-booking essential £10/£7 conc. UCL Bloomsbury Theatre www.scienceshowoff.org

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UCL Grant Museum of Zoology presents:The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) on the big screen

While out enjoying a boating trip, Scott Carey passes through a mysterious cloud of radioactive mist with some dire consequences. Historian of biology and film buff Professor Joe Cain (UCL Science and Technology Studies) introduces a film that will make you question your very existence. Tues 1 Oct | 6.30–9pm | film screening Followed by a drinks reception JZ Young Lecture Theatre zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Space Showoff, 12 September 7.30–10pm.

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

Our new season opens with a varied programme, including Chopin’s Scherzo No.1 in B minor, Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder, together with Barber’s Canzone and Copland’s Duo, both for flute and piano. The concert will be followed by refreshments and a chance to meet the committee. Thurs 3 Oct | 5.30–6.30pm Haldane Room www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music +44 (0)7903 104764

Judging the generals: human rights trials in Chile 15 years after the Pinochet case

Film screening and dialogue with Judge Alejandro Solis, a Chilean judge who investigated Augusto Pinochet and resolved many of Chile’s major dictatorship-era human rights cases. Mon 14 Oct | 4–7.30pm | film screening and dialogue Pre-booking essential Lecture Theatre 103, 1st floor, 51 Gordon Square www.chilean-generals-trials.eventbrite.co.uk

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UCL Chamber Music Club concert

“Let nature have you for a while!” – Scandinavian Landscape in Song explores the vital role of nature and landscape in the repertoire of Scandinavian song, with works by Grieg, Sibelius and Delius among others.Tues 15 Oct | 6–7pm Haldane Room www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music +44 (0)7903 104764

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

A joint concert with Oxford & Cambridge Musical Club. The UCL contribution will include music for flute and piano. Wed 30 Oct | 7–10pm Haldane Room www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music +44 (0)7903 104764

The Petrie Film Club presents Lair of the White Worm

An archaeological dig in the Peak District unearths an ancient evil as Ken Russell’s inimitable mise-en-scène collides with both British folklore and the text of Bram Stoker’s final novel, providing Amanda Donohoe with a career-defining role as the monstrous Lady Sylvia Marsh. Introduced by John J. Johnston.Sat 2 Nov | 6–9pm | film screening Pre-booking essential UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology h.pike@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

UCL Chamber Music Club concert: Adolescence

This lunchtime concert features composers’ early works and pieces that they have written for and about youth, including Gustav Mahler’s Piano Quartet in A minor, extracts from Ma mère l’oye for piano duet by Maurice Ravel, and Leoš Janáček’s Pohádka for cello and piano.Fri 1 Nov | 1.10–1.55pm Haldane Room www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music +44 (0)7903 104764

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Bright Club: Fire

Remember, remember the 5th of November, and come along to Bright Club: Fire. Join 10 UCL researchers – along with three of London’s best comedians – as they channel their inner comic genius to show us that university research isn’t always as serious as you might think. Tues 5 Nov | 7.30–10pm Pre-booking essential, £8 UCL Bloomsbury Theatre www.brightclub.org +44 (0)20 31081198

Ken Russell’s Lair of the White Worm, Petrie Film Club, 2 November 6–9pm. Photo by Central Press/Getty Images

Join the UCL Chamber Music Club for events throughout October, November and December.

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

A concert presented by performers from UCLU Music Society.Thurs 14 Nov | 5.30–6.30pm Haldane Room www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music +44 (0)7903 104764

Concert in the Quad, 3 December, 12–8pm.

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UCL Chamber Music Club concert

This lunchtime concert will include Lieder and piano music by Schubert.Fri 22 Nov | 1.10–1.55pm Haldane Room www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music +44 (0)7903 104764

Performances/Film screenings/Music

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The Petrie Film Club presents Eye on the Needle

A screening of a new documentary, Eye on the Needle, about Cleopatra’s Needle, an ancient Egyptian obelisk situated on London’s Embankment. The film follows Dr Paul Harrison (UCL) as he investigates the history of the monument and its current state of preservation. There will be a Q&A with the filmmakers afterwards. Thurs 14 Nov | 6–8.30pm | film screening Pre-booking essential UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology h.pike@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

UCL Chamber Music Club Christmas concert, 10 December, 6–7pm.

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Concert in the Quad

In the daytime, there will be a range of food and gift stalls in the Quad, while the evening activities will include musical performances from UCLU clubs and societies and the lighting of the Christmas tree. Tues 3 Dec | 12–8pm Main Quad, UCL main campus t.withstandley@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 7902

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

The club’s Christmas concert will feature Corelli’s Christmas Concerto for strings and the CMC Chamber Choir performing excerpts from J.S.Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, together with a newly composed work by Roger Beeson. Seasonal refreshments will be served after the concert.Tues 10 Dec | 6–7pm North Cloisters, UCL main campus www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music +44 (0)7903 104764

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

The programme will include Fauré’s 1st Piano Quartet, the composer’s first major chamber work.Thurs 5 Dec | 5.30–6.30pm Haldane Room www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music +44 (0)7903 104764

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Exhibitions Black Bloomsbury

The Black Bloomsbury exhibition highlights the history of the black presence in Bloomsbury between 1918 and 1948, emphasising themes of geographical spaces, migration, race, and political struggles. It features art works and archival documents co-curated with Dr Gemma Romain and Dr Caroline Bressey of the Equiano Centre.Until Fri 13 Dec | Mon–Fri 1–5pm UCL Art Museum m.rouleau@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540

‘Black Bloomsbury’, featuring this Monnington piece. Until 13 December, Monday–Friday 1–5pm.

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Open House London: pop-up display

The UCL Art Museum is participating in Open House London with a pop-up display of some extraordinary architectural drawings by William Wilkins, architect of UCL’s Wilkins Building, and John Flaxman, neoclassical sculptor.Sat 21 Sep | 1.30–4pm UCL Art Museum m.rouleau@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540

The National Hospital, Queen Square: from research to patient

This photographic exhibition showcases images from the archives of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, which are housed in and managed by Queen Square Library. They provide a fascinating window into the foundation and development of a specialist hospital that has grown to become one of the foremost of its kind in the world.Mon 9 Sep–Fri 1 Nov | all day South Cloisters, UCL main campus sarah.lawson@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3448 4709

Digital frontiers exhibition

Ever wondered what the prisoners would have eaten in Jeremy Bentham’s ideal Panopticon building? This new exhibition not only displays original Special Collections material – manuscripts from the Bentham Collection, including his suggestions for prison recipes – but also enables you to zoom in, using touch screens, on digital images and transcriptions alongside the originals. Until Mon 16 Dec | all day Octagon Gallery, UCL main campus sussanah.chan@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 3163

Visit the Octagon Gallery for the ‘Digital frontiers exhibition’. Running all day until 16 December.

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UCLoo Festival 2013

More than 2.6 billion people in developing countries do not have access to a safe toilet and flushing toilets use water, one of our most precious resources, to wash human waste away. The world needs a new toilet. UCLoo Festival will showcase the latest revolution in public health and sustainability. Tues 19 Nov–Tues 3 Dec | 10am–4pm North Lodge and North Observatory Main Quad, UCL main campus t.teh@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4837

Pop-up display: Press photography of Red Vienna, 1929–1938

Join us at UCL Art Museum for a pop-up display and discussion curated by Eva Branscome and Catalina Meija, researchers at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture. They will present a series of anonymous photographs of Vienna created or used by the North American press that record a particularly volatile time.Tues 12 Nov | 1–2pm UCL Art Museum m.rouleau@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540

Open House London at the Petrie Museum

A chance to find out more about the history of the building in Malet Place, which was once a horse hospital and is now home to the Petrie Collection. Follow a horse-themed trail around the museum and meet some equine friends.Sat 21 Sep | 10am–5pm Pre-booking essential UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology h.pike@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Ramsay and the Nobel discovery

This year marks the centenary of the retirement of Sir William Ramsay, one-time head of UCL Chemistry and the discoverer of the Noble gases. UCL Chemistry Collections will celebrate by putting on a special pop-up, featuring the world’s ‘first’ neon sign and Ramsay’s original experimental tubes in action.Fri 1 Nov | 1–3pm The Rock Room, South Wing UCL main campus nicholas.booth@ucl.c.uk +44 (0)20 7679 0664

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Slade Print Fair

A sale of prints and multiples by UCL Slade School of Fine Art staff, students, alumni and special guests including Phyllida Barlow, Susan Hiller, Tim Head and Alison Wilding. All proceeds will go to support student scholarships.Thurs 28–Sat 30 Nov | 10am–6pm UCL Slade Research Centre Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB g.hailstone@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 7040

Pop-up display: Challenger unbound

To complement the symposium ‘Challenger unbound’, which celebrates a century since the publication of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, UCL Art Museum displays works from the collection looking at themes explored in the stories. The display is curated by Tom Ue, SSHRC Doctoral Fellow and Canadian Centennial Scholar, UCL English.Mon 9 Dec | 1–2pm UCL Art Museum m.rouleau@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540

Sir William Ramsay’s experimental tubes will feature in ‘Ramsay and the Nobel discovery’, 1 November 1–3pm.

St. Michael Overcoming Satan by John Flaxman, to feature in ‘Open House London’, 21 September 1.30–4pm.

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Date Time Title PageUntil 13 Dec

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Black Bloomsbury 26

Until 16 Dec

All day Digital frontiers exhibition 27

6 Sep 2–5pm LandSCAPE 29 Sep –1 Nov

All day The National Hospital, Queen Square: from research to patient

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12 Sep 7.30–10pm Space Showoff 2020 Sep 1–2pm Show’N’Tell: Bones 2

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Various MayaGlyphs 2013 10

21 Sep 9.30am–2pm Open House London 2013 1021 Sep 10am–5pm Open House London at the Petrie Museum 28

21 Sep 1.30–4pm Open House London: Pop–up display 2726 Sep 6–8.30pm The Petrie Film Club Launch 2028 Sep & 23 Nov

1–4.30pm Explore zoology 11

1 Oct 6.30–9pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology presents: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) on the big screen

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3 Oct 1–2pm UCL President and Provost inaugural Lunch Hour Lecture 153 Oct 5.30–6.30pm UCL Chamber Music Club concert 213 Oct 6.30–8pm Wellbeing in the ancient world 38 Oct 1.15–1.55pm LOLZ! The science of laughter 1510–12 Oct

11am–6pm Your Universe, UCL Festival of Astronomy: exhibits and lectures for schools and the general public

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10 Oct 1.15–1.55pm Dr Dre in the classroom 1610 Oct 6.30–8pm Latin as a language of translation in Elizabethan England 310 Oct 6.45–8pm Jewish identity and Israeli foreign policy 314 Oct 4–7.30pm Judging the generals: human rights trials in Chile 15

years after the Pinochet case21

15 Oct 1.15–1.55pm Global growth vs. human health: finding the balance 1615–16 Oct, 19 Oct

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Egypt on the stage 4

15 Oct 6–7pm UCL Chamber Music Club concert 2217 Oct 1.15–1.55pm Patterns of nature 16

18 Oct 6.30–8.30pm What has technology ever done for animals? 419 & 20 Oct

1–4.30pm Bloomsbury Festival: Life under the waves 11

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21 Oct 6.45–8pm The Jews from the island of Rhodes 422 Oct 1.15–1.55pm Holding it straight: sexual orientation in the middle ages 1624 Oct 1.15–1.55pm Technology for nature 1724 Oct 6–7.30pm ‘No tincture of learning’?: Aphra Behn as (re)writer and

translator4

24 Oct 6.30–8pm Modernist Egyptian sculpture 524 Oct 7–8.30pm Focus on the Positive 1226 Oct 12–1.30pm Black Bloomsbury: A walking tour 1228Oct–2 Nov

1–4.30pm Half–term activity: Hungry, hungry herbivores 12

29 Oct 1.15–1.55pm A good start in life 1730 Oct 6.45–8pm Rescue during the Holocaust: sources and causes 530 Oct 7–10pm UCL Chamber Music Club concert 2231 Oct 1.15–1.55pm Animating architecture 1731 Oct 6–8pm A night of terror from the tomb 631 Oct 6–8.30pm The subversive millinery 1231 Oct 6.30–9pm Halloween at the Grant 131 Nov 1.10–1.55pm UCL Chamber Music Club concert: Adolescence 221 Nov 1–3pm Ramsay and the Nobel discovery 282 Nov 10.30am–

4.30pmFestival of Geology: UCL, the Geologists’ Association and Rockwatch

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2 Nov 6–9pm The Petrie Film Club presents: Lair of the White Worm 225 Nov 7.30–10pm Bright Club: Fire 236 Nov 5.30–7pm The 2013 UCL Lancet Lecture: Charity does not rhyme

with development6

7 Nov 6–8pm Ideas Slam 68 Nov 6.30–9pm UCL Museums treasure hunt: food for thought! 1412 Nov 1–2pm Pop–up display: Press photography of Red Vienna,

1929–193828

12 Nov 1.15–1.55pm Learning from vaccine scares: MMR and beyond 1814 Nov 1.15–1.55pm Friday nights with Caine and Christie: remembering

1960s cinema–going18

14 Nov 5.30–6.30pm UCL Chamber Music Club concert 2314 Nov 6–7.30pm Literalism, expediency and decorum: the contradictions

of Victorian translation publishing6

14 Nov 6–8.30pm The Petrie Film Club presents Eye on the Needle 2419 Nov –3 Dec

10am–4pm UCLoo Festival 2013 28

19 Nov 1–2pm Pop–up workshop: 3D scanning 1419 Nov 1.15–1.55pm After Fukushima: risk and resilience to disasters in Japan 18

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19 Nov 6.30–9pm 17th Annual Grant Lecture: Fossils, climate change and the future of life on earth

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21 Nov 1.15–1.55pm What goes on in the mind of London cabbie? 1821 Nov 6.45–8pm The amazing adventures of a Hebrew manuscript from

medieval England7

22 Nov 1.10–1.55pm UCL Chamber Music Club concert 2426 Nov 1–2pm Pop–up talk: Gemma Romain talks about Egyptian and

Indian women at the interwar Slade School of Fine Art8

26 Nov 1.15–1.55pm Encounters with portraiture: exploring with the pencil and lens

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27 Nov 6–7pm The intellectual consequences of the First World War 827 Nov 6.45–8pm My father – the good Nazi? 828 Nov – 30 Nov

10am–6pm Slade Print Fair 29

28 Nov 1.15–1.55pm Does gender make you sick? 1928 Nov 6–7.30pm Schleiermacher and Plato, hermeneutics and translation 83 Dec 12–8pm Concert in the Quad 253 Dec 1.15–1.55pm Antibiotics: ever diminishing returns 195 Dec 1.15–1.55pm Unravelling the mysteries of Stonehenge 195 Dec 5.30–6.30pm UCL Chamber Music Club concert 256 Dec 7–9pm Petrie’s set – a seasonal walking tour of

Egyptological Bloomsbury14

9 Dec 9am–7pm Challenger unbound 99 Dec 1–2pm Pop–up display: Challenger unbound 2910 Dec 6–7pm UCL Chamber Music Club concert 2512 Dec 6–7.30pm ‘Transportation is civilization’: Ezra Pound’s

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2 Christopher Ingold XLG1 Chemistry Lecture Theatre Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ

3 Haldane Room Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

4 Darwin Lecture Theatre Darwin Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT (access via Malet Place)

5 UCL Bloomsbury Theatre 15 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AH +44 (0)20 7388 8822 www.thebloomsbury.com

6 Lecture theatre 103 1st floor, 51 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PN

7 UCL Grant Museum of Zoology Rockefeller Building, 21 University Street, London WC1E 6DE Mon–Fri, 1–5pm zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

8 Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre 2nd Floor, south wing, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

9 UCL Art Museum South Cloisters, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Mon–Fri, 1–5pm college.art@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/uclart

10 JZ Young Lecture Theatre Anatomy Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

11 Pearson Lecture Theatre Pearson Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

12 Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL Institute of Child Health 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH

13 UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Malet Place, London WC1E 6BT Tues–Sat, 1–5pm events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie

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15 Chadwich Lecture Theatre Basement, Chadwick Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT

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