Public Lectures Booklet

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Buckland Lecture 9Centre for Security Studies 10Classical Association, Hull and District Branch 11East Riding Archaeological Society 13Engineering lectures 15Annual English Lecture 20Ferens Distinguished Lecture 21Annual History Lecture 22History of Art Public Lectures 23Hull and District Theological Society 25Hull Geological Society 27Inaugural lectures 29Institute of European Public Law Annual Lecture 30Josephine Onoh Memorial Lecture 31Larkin25 32Music lectures and events 34Music research seminars 37Peter Thompson Lecture 38Physical Sciences Seminar Programme 39St John’s College Lecture 40Wilberforce Institute (WISE) public lectures 42Religious services 43Public lectures at Scarborough 44

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23 Sept Classical Association: Malevolent Gods and Promethean Birds: The Lecture Room, Graduate School,Dynamics of Roman Religion and the Case of Augury Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 470119 11

29 Sept Larkin 25: ‘Random Windows Conjuring a Street’: Larkin and the City Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 465845 32

30 Sept WISE public lecture: Consuming Goods, Consuming People WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE 4.30 pm 01482 465892 42

1 Oct Ninth Grace Black Piano Masterclass Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 2.30 pm 01482 462045 34

5 Oct Larkin 25: Ferens Distinguished Lecture: The Afterlife of Philip Larkin Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 465845 21

8 Oct Ferdinand David Quartet Workshop Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 2.30 pm 01482 462045 34

12 Oct Music research seminar: Discovering Blanche Calloway: The First Female African-American Big Band Leader Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus 4.15 pm [email protected] 37

12 Oct Engineering lecture: The Enigma Machine and Code Breaking at Bletchley Department of Engineering, Robert Park Blackburn Building, Hull Campus 7 pm 01482 465654 15

13 Oct Hull and District Theological Society: ‘Suffered under Pontius Pilate’? Seminar Room, Graduate School, Who Really Crucified Jesus? Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 466548 25

14 Oct Annual History Lecture: Sons and Mother: The Virgin Mary and European Leslie Downs Lecture Theatre, Identity Hull Campus 6.30 pm 01482 465192 22

14 Oct Classical Association: Carthage’s Second Great War With Rome: Lecture Room, Graduate School, How Did Hannibal Not Win It? Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 470119 11

15 Oct Shakespeare in Music: A Brief Introduction Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 4 pm 01482 462045 35

19 Oct Hull Geological Society: Climate Change from a Geologist’s Viewpoint Department of Geography, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 346784 27

20 Oct St John’s College Lecture: Dyslexia, Rhythm and Music Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 466326 40

20 Oct East Riding Archaeological Society: The Staffordshire Anglo-Saxon Hoard S1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 465543 13

21 Oct Engineering lecture: The Life and Times of Robert Blackburn, Aviation Department of Engineering, Robert Pioneer, 1885–1955 Blackburn Building, Hull Campus 2 pm 01482 465818 16

22 Oct Java Band Workshop Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 2.30 pm 01482 462045 35

23 Oct Hull Chamber Music: A Schumann Celebration Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.15 pm 01482 462045 35

23 Oct Hull Geological Society: New Techniques in Geology Department of Geography, Hull Campus tbc 01482 346784 27

28 Oct Peter Thompson Lecture: Shipping and Governments: An Uneasy Derwent Building, Hull University Partnership Business School, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 463183 38

29 Oct The Grand Tourists Masterclass Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 2.30 pm 01482 462045 35

30 Oct Hull Geological Society: Quaternary Techniques Workshop Department of Geography, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 346784 27

1 Nov WISE public lecture: ‘The Products of the East by Free Men’: Sugar, Slavery WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, and East India Trade, 1823–43 Hull, HU1 1NE 4.30 pm 01482 465892 42

2 Nov Music research seminar: Mozart and the Hass Clavichord Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus 4.15 pm [email protected] 37

3 Nov Physical Sciences seminar: Molecules and Nanostructures for Solar Energy Lecture Theatre A, Department of Conversion Chemistry, Hull Campus 4.15 pm 01482 465027 39

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4 Nov Engineering lecture: Is It a Good Idea to Patent Your Idea? Department of Engineering, Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus 7 pm 01482 465818 17

5 Nov Nordic Jazz Workshop Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 2.30 pm 01482 462045 35

8 Nov Inaugural lecture: Tumours: The Neighbours Can Be Both a Help and a Hindrance! Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 466326 29

10 Nov Larkin 25: Philip to Monica: ‘Dearest Bun’ Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 465845 32

10 Nov Engineering lecture: BLOODHOUND Department of Engineering, Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus 7 pm 01482 465654 18

10 Nov Hull and District Theological Society: No Faith in ‘Religion’: Some Seminar Room, Graduate School,Variations on a Kierkegaardian Theme Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 466548 25

11 Nov Hull Geological Society: Permian Extinctions: Death by Fire Department of Geography, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 346784 27

12 Nov Institute of European Public Law Lecture: The People’s Last Sigh? European Referendums and the End of the State Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus 2.15 pm 01482 465917 30

16 Nov Music research seminar: Berg as Influenced by Swing: Contextual and Auditory Grounds Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus 4.15 pm [email protected] 37

17 Nov Physical Sciences seminar: Rolo Riddle and Other Chocolate Challenges Lecture Theatre A, Department of Chemistry, Hull Campus 4.15 pm 01482 465027 39

17 Nov East Riding Archaeological Society: Recent Work at Duggleby Howe, East Yorkshire S1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 465543 13

18 Nov History of Art Public Lecture: Art for Everybody: Spanish Polychromatic Word Sculpture Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 465192 23

22 Nov The Buckland Lecture: Biological Inputs into Crustacean Shellfish Supply Chains Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 847311 9

23 Nov Music research seminar: Channelling Glenn Gould: Masculinities from Television to New Hollywood Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus 4.15 pm [email protected] 37

24 Nov Larkin 25: Philip Larkin: Life or Art? Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 465845 32

24 Nov Josephine Onoh Memorial Lecture: title to be confirmed To be confirmed tbc 01482 465857 31

25 Nov History of Art Public Lecture: ‘The Trouble with Public Sculpture is not the Sculpture but the Public’ Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 465192 23

25 Nov Classical Association: Herculean Tasks: Writing about Herakles in the 21st Lecture Room, Graduate School, Century Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 470119 11

26 Nov Music and Poetry: Musical Reactions and Creative Responses Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 2.30 pm 01482 462045 36

27 Nov Hull Geological Society: Microfossils Workshop Department of Geography, Hull Campus tbc 01482 346784 27

1 Dec History of Art Public Lecture: Working towards Public Sculpture Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 465192 24

2 Dec Larkin 25: Annual English Lecture: Larkin: The End of the Line Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 465309 20

2 Dec WISE public lecture: Slimy Subjects? Barack Obama, Mixed-Race Metaphors WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street,and Neoliberal Multiculturalism Hull, HU1 1NE 4.30 pm 01482 465892 42

3 Dec Anthony Thompson Brass Masterclass Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 2.30 pm 01482 462045 36

4 Dec Music research seminar: Film, Music, Narrativity: A Royal Musical Association Study Day Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus 9 am to 6 pm [email protected] 37

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5 Dec University of Hull Carol Service Holy Trinity Church, Market Place, Hull 4.30 pm 01482 466326 43

6 Dec Centre for Security Studies: Marshal Zhukov Reconsidered Venue to be confirmed 5.30 pm 01482 462071 10

6 Dec Inaugural lecture: Blood, Fat and Gas: The Clot Thickens Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 466326 29

8 Dec Engineering lecture: Red Devils Department of Engineering, Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus 7 pm 01482 465654 18

8 Dec Hull and District Theological Society: Christianity and Culture Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 466548 26

9 Dec Hull Geological Society: Limestone: The Only Rock You Can See from the Department of Geography, Inside Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 346784 27

15 Dec Engineering lecture: The Design and Testing of the Neptune Proteus Tidal Department of Engineering, Robert Stream Power Device Blackburn Building, Hull Campus 7 pm 01482 465818 19

15 Dec East Riding Archaeological Society: The Stonehenge Riverside Project S1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 465543 13

13 Jan Classical Association: Punishment and Violence in the Roman Household Lecture Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 470119 12

19 Jan Hull and District Theological Society: Christianity and the Theatre Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 466548 26

19 Jan East Riding Archaeological Society: Prehistoric and Roman Saltmaking on S1, Wilberforce Building, the East Coast Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 465543 13

20 Jan Hull Geological Society: Felix Whitham and His Contributions to Science Department of Geography, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 346784 28

27 Jan WISE public lecture: ‘The Key to India’: Southern Africa, Troop Movements WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, and Britain’s Indian Ocean World, 1795–1820 Hull, HU1 1NE 4.30 pm 01482 465892 42

8 Mar University of Hull Founder’s Day Service University Chapel, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 466326 43

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Biological Inputs into Crustacean Shellfish SupplyChains

Monday 22 November 2010Middleton Hall, 6 pm

Dr Roger Uglow

Britain has a valuable export trade in live crustacean shellfishsent principally to France and Spain and, globally, this trade ishuge. Anticipated trends include the development and expansionof novel, worldwide markets and new supply chain systems toservice them. Delivering quality products consistently and cost-effectively using humane, eco-friendly systems cannot beachieved by accident. It requires biological inputs aimed atproviding the vital needs of the various species at all times. Thishas been the main research thrust of Dr Uglow and his team at theUniversity of Hull, and the lecture will show that a humanesystem can be a profitable one.

Further informationDr Roger Uglow, [email protected], 01482 847331

Sponsored by the Buckland Foundation

The Buckland Lecture

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Malevolent Gods and Promethean Birds: The Dynamicsof Roman Religion and the Case of Augury

Thursday 23 September 2010 Lecture Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Steven Green, University of Leeds

Steven Green is a specialist on the literature and society of Romein the 1st centuries BC and AD, especially the Augustan andNeronian periods. He has published a major commentary onOvid and is at present writing books on Roman astrology and theEmperor Nero. He has been interviewed on Radio 4 on thesubject of Roman augury.

Carthage’s Second Great War with Rome: How DidHannibal Not Win It?

Thursday 14 October 2010 Lecture Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Joint lecture with the Roman Society

Dr Tim Ryder, University of Reading

Dr Ryder is a retired Reader in Classics from the University ofReading, having moved there after many years in the ClassicsDepartment at the University of Hull.

Herculean Tasks: Writing about Herakles in the 21stCentury

Thursday 25 November 2010Lecture Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30pm

Joint lecture with the Hellenic Society

Dr Emma Stafford, University of Leeds

Emma Stafford specialises in Greek cultural history, especiallyreligion. Her works include Life, Myth and Art in Ancient Greece.At present she is writing books on Herakles and on the TrojanWar, and her next project is to be on Nemesis.

Classical Association

Marshal Zhukov Reconsidered

Monday 6 December 2010Venue to be confirmed, 5.30 pm

Professor Geoffrey Roberts, University College Cork

Further informationProfessor Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, [email protected],01482 462071

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The Staffordshire Anglo-Saxon Hoard

Wednesday 20 October 2010 S1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Dr Kevin Leahy, Portable Antiquities Scheme

Recent Work at Duggleby Howe, East Yorkshire

Wednesday 17 November 2010 S1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Dr Alex Gibson, University of Bradford

The Stonehenge Riverside Project

Wednesday 15 December 2010 S1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Dr Mike Parker-Pearson, University of Sheffield

Prehistoric and Roman Saltmaking on the East Coast

Wednesday 19 January 2011S1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Tom Lane, Archaeological Project Services

Further informationDr Helen Fenwick, [email protected], 01482 465543

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Punishment and Violence in the Roman Household

Thursday 13 January 2011Lecture Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Julia Hillner, University of Sheffield

Julia Hillner researches on late Roman and early medieval socialhistory, c 300–750, in particular the family and household in thisperiod. She is at present working on her latest book, Prison,Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity.

Further informationMargaret Nicholson, 17 Sycamore Court, Park Grove, Hull, HU5 2UL, [email protected], 01482 470119

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Engineering lectures

The Enigma Machine and Code Breaking at Bletchley Park

Tuesday 12 October, 2010Department of Engineering, Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 7 pm

One of WW2’s most fascinating stories is that of the Enigmacodes. The Germans believed them unbreakable. Nevertheless, atBletchley Park the Allies read millions of German messages,providing reliable intelligence.

To exemplify the importance of code breaking in winning the war,Dr Mark Baldwin uses the Battle of the Atlantic, a fierce conflictlasting six years and costing more than 60,000 lives.

Dr Baldwin has been giving talks on the Enigma machine for over10 years, and has recently been actively involved in selling booksabout Enigma and other aspects of cryptography, in travellingaround the country giving lectures about the WW2 code breakers,and in demonstrating an original 1944 Enigma machine.

Further informationAndrew Smith, Engineering Innovation Institute,[email protected], 01482 465654

Sponsored by the BCS (formerly known as the British ComputerSociety) ([email protected]), together with the Institute ofMechanical Engineers and the Institute of Engineering andTechnology

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Is It a Good Idea to Patent Your Idea?

Thursday 4 November 2010Department of Engineering, Robert Blackburn Building,Hull Campus, 7 pm

Dr Andrew Bradley, visiting the UK from the School ofInformation Technology and Electrical Engineering at theUniversity of Queensland, Australia, will provide some practicalinsight into what patents are, what they are used for and why youmight want one. In particular, he will give an ‘engineer’sperspective’ on the patent process and explore some of thecontentious issues surrounding patents, such as software patents,patent trolling and submarine patents. He will also present datathat highlights an apparently weak relationship between R&Dexpenditure and the number of patents an organisation isgranted. He will further explore this issue by highlighting just twoAustralian companies that are making a business purely out ofpatents.

Further informationDr Philip Rubini, Department of Engineering,[email protected], 01482 465818

Sponsored by the Institute of Engineering and Technology

The Life and Times of Robert Blackburn, AviationPioneer, 1885–1955

Thursday 21 October 2010Department of Engineering, Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 2 pm

In this unique public seminar, Professor Robert Blackburn(Professor of Constitutional Law and Director of the Institute forContemporary History, King’s College London) will give anillustrated talk on the life and times of his grandfather, tocommemorate the Blackburn first-flight centenary year andrefurbishment of the Robert Blackburn Building on theUniversity’s Hull Campus.

Robert Blackburn, OBE, FRAeS, was one of Britain’s earliestaviation pioneers and the founder of Blackburn Aircraft, theforerunner to BAE Systems at Brough. He started work on his firstmachine in 1909 and demonstrated determination andinnovation throughout the following 46 years as the driving forcebehind Blackburn Aircraft.

The Blackburn Aircraft factory and aerodrome on the HumberEstuary were famous features of the East Yorkshire region for overfive decades. The site at Brough dates back to 1916, when theBlackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company built a new factory there.The company flourished through the war years, and the proximityof the River Humber meant that the factory was ideally situatedfor the launching of seaplanes. In the years between WW1 andWW2 the company’s reputation grew and in 1939 it becameBlackburn Aircraft Ltd. In 1960 its aircraft production operationwas absorbed into Hawker Siddeley and its engine operationsinto Bristol Siddeley, as part of the rationalisation of Britishaircraft manufacturers.


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The Design and Testing of the Neptune Proteus TidalStream Power Device

Wednesday 15 December, 2010Department of Engineering, Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 7 pm

Professor Jack Hardisty and Glenn Aitken of NeptuneRenewable Energy will give an introduction to the backgroundand future of the Neptune Proteus Tidal Stream Power Device.

Alternative energy sources for electricity generation are at theforefront of governmental policy. In the UK the Government hascommitted us to meeting a target of 10% of energy generationfrom renewable sources by 2010 and 20% by 2020 (DTI, July2006). Much of this renewable energy so far has been derivedfrom wind power since the technology is now well advanced andproven.

Marine renewable energy is available in the waves and tidalcurrents of the coastal water around our shores. Marinerenewable energy is clean and accessible with the righttechnology. Neptune Renewable Energy Ltd (NREL) is currentlydeveloping two second-generation, commercially focusedtechnologies to exploit both the tidal and wave resource. Theseare the Neptune Proteus Tidal Stream Power Device and theNeptune Triton, a shallow-water wave power device.

NREL has built a full-scale Proteus Demonstrator which wasbrought to the Humber in July 2010. Upon successful completionof trials with the Demonstrator, the world’s first tidal streampower array, consisting of advanced NP1500s, will be built anddeployed during 2011/12.


Sponsored by the Institute of Engineering and Technology

BLOODHOUND

Wednesday 10 November 2010Department of Engineering, Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 7 pm

BLOODHOUND is an iconic engineering project to design andbuild the first supersonic car capable of achieving 1,000 mph andsmashing the World Land Speed Record. David Rowley,Education Programme Director, will give an exciting introductionto the project and its ambitions.

BLOODHOUND SSC has been designed to achieve speeds of up to1,050 mph and, being jet and rocket powered, has 133,000 bhp(equivalent to 180 Formula One cars). Having completed theaerodynamic design, the project is entering the detail design andcar build phase of the programme. This will lead to roll-outtowards the end of 2011, UK runway trials in early 2012 and,finally, high-speed trials on Hakskeen Pan, South Africa, laterthat year.


Sponsored by the Hull Association of Engineers and the Instituteof Mechanical Engineers

Red Devils

Wednesday 8 December, 2010Department of Engineering, Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 7 pm

Jacqueline Young will talk about her involvement in the RedDevils, the Parachute Regiment Freefall Team. She will cover herachievements and experiences to date – the funny and the hairy!She will go into the basics of the Parachute Regiment and theirhistory.


Sponsored by the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Institute ofMechanical Engineers

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The Afterlife of Philip Larkin

Tuesday 5 October 2010 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Andrew Motion looks at the ways in which Philip Larkin’sreputation was changed by the publication of the CollectedPoems, Selected Letters and his own biography and reflects onhow it has continued to change in the last 25 years.

Further informationLesley Dye, [email protected], 01482 465845

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Larkin: The End of the Line

Thursday 2 December 2010 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Carol Rumens considers musicality in poetry and specifically inLarkin’s poetry. She goes on to discuss the ways in which melodyis still relevant to 21st-century poetry, and attempts to trace thoseunder-noticed writers who continue in what might be broadlycalled the lyric tradition.

Further informationPaula Shaw, [email protected], 01482 465309

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Lectures on public sculpture

Public Sculpture: The Italian Model

Thursday 4 November 2010Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

John G Bernasconi, University of Hull

The Malcolm Easton Lecture

Art for Everybody: Spanish Polychromatic WoodSculpture

Thursday 18 November 2010Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Jennifer Fletcher, formerly of the Courtauld Institute of Art

‘The Trouble with Public Sculpture is not the Sculpturebut the Public’

Thursday 25 November 2010 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Ben Read, University of Leeds

Benedict Read is perhaps the country’s leading authority onBritish public sculpture. He is the son of the eminent art critic andpoet Sir Herbert Read. His principal publications includeVictorian Sculpture (1982), Sculpture in Britain between the Wars(1986) and contributions to Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture (1991), whichhe co-edited. He is chairperson of the editorial committee of theSculpture Journal and former president of the Public Monumentsand Sculpture Association.

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Sons and Mother: The Virgin Mary and EuropeanIdentity

Thursday 14 October 2010 Leslie Downs Lecture Theatre, Ferens Building, Hull Campus, 6.30 pm

Professor Miri Rubin, Queen Mary, University of London

A historical exploration – in word, image and sound – of theformation of European identities through the relationship to theVirgin Mary: bride, mother, mourner.

Further informationLouise Macfarlane, Department of History,[email protected], 01482 465192

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‘Suffered under Pontius Pilate’? Who Really CrucifiedJesus?

Wednesday 13 October 2010Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Dr Helen Bond, Senior Lecturer in Divinity, University ofEdinburgh

Dr Bond is one of the leading New Testament scholars of hergeneration and is a first-rate communicator. She is much indemand as a broadcaster on both radio and TV, most famously asa contributor to controversial documentaries on Jesus, the VirginMary and St Paul for Channel 4. In this lecture she will lookagain at the evidence surrounding the death of Jesus and the roleof the famous Roman governor in it.

No Faith in ‘Religion’: Some Variations on aKierkegaardian Theme

Wednesday 10 November 2010Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Rt Revd Dr John Saxbee, Bishop of Lincoln

It might seem odd to hear a Church of England bishop assert thatthere is too much religion around! But it is certainly the case thatthe word ‘religion’ is out of favour nowadays, with politicians,pundits and practitioners more likely to speak of ‘faith’ or‘spirituality’. Perhaps surprisingly, anti-religious sentiment in thissense has a distinguished history in Christianity: in the 19thcentury, Søren Kierkegaard denied that Christianity was a man-made religion, seeing it rather as a radical challenge to all humaninstitutions and constructs. Dr Saxbee will consider how theiconoclastic Dane’s message speaks to Church and society in 21st-century Britain.

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Working towards Public Sculpture

Wednesday 1 December 2010 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Martin Jennings

Martin Jennings is a distinguished sculptor, perhaps best knownfor his acclaimed statue of Sir John Betjeman at St PancrasStation. He speaks on the eve of the unveiling of his relatedbronze statue of Philip Larkin at Hull Paragon Station as theculmination of the Larkin25 season on the exact 25th anniversaryof Larkin’s death.

The lectures will be illustrated.

The University Art Collection with the Thompson Collections ofChinese ceramics will be open for half an hour before eachlecture.

Further informationLouise Macfarlane, [email protected], 01482 465192

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Climate Change from a Geologist’s Viewpoint

Tuesday 19 October 2010Department of Geography, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Frank Cox

New Techniques in Geology

Saturday 23 October 2010Department of Geography, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Joint afternoon meeting with the Yorkshire Geological SocietySpeakers will include Derek Siveter and Laurance Donnelly.

Quaternary Techniques Workshop

Saturday 30 October 2010 Department of Geography, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Led by Mike Horne, Rodger Connell and Stuart Jones. Booking required before 1 October; there may be a small fee.

Permian Extinctions: Death by Fire

Thursday 11 November 2010 Department of Geography, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Professor Paul Wignall, University of Leeds

Microfossils Workshop

Saturday 27 November 2010Department of Geography, Hull Campus, time to be confirmed

Led by Mike Horne, Patty McAlpin and Stuart Jones. Booking required; there may be a small fee.

Limestone: The Only Rock You Can See from the Inside

Thursday 9 December 2010 Department of Geography, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

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Christianity and Culture

Wednesday 8 December 2010Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Revd Dr Dee Dyas, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for MedievalStudies, University of York

The impact of Christianity on this nation’s heritage isimmeasurable. But, ironically, while the UK heritage industry isincreasingly recognized as a driver of economic regeneration inmany areas of the country, the ability of the general public, in an‘unchurched’ society, to interpret Christian buildings and otherartefacts is diminishing. In this lecture, Dee Dyas will evaluatesome of the strategies being pursued to address this problem. Dr Dyas is Director of the Centre for Christianity and Culture atthe University of York. She is the author of several books,including Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature (2001) andThe Bible in Western Culture (2004), and is the editor of a series ofinteractive DVDs published under the title ‘Christianity andCulture’.

Christianity and the Theatre

Wednesday 19 January 2011Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Dr Philip Crispin, Lecturer in Drama, University of Hull

The Christian story of creation, fall, redemption and finalconsummation is inherently dramatic, and it is little wonder thatgenerations of playwrights have engaged with this story indifferent ways. In this lecture, Philip Crispin will explore somethemes from the rich topic of Christianity and the theatre. Dr Crispin has wide-ranging interests in both early-modern andmodern anglophone and francophone drama, and has aparticular interest in the interweaving of the sacred and theprofane. He is also a freelance journalist who comments on avariety of cultural and religious topics.

Further informationDr David Bagchi, Department of History, [email protected],01482 466548

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Tumours: The Neighbours Can Be both a Help and aHindrance!

Monday 8 November 2010Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Professor John Greenman, Professor of Tumour Immunology

The lecture will discuss the behaviour of cells surrounding atumour, focusing on the generation of new blood vessels and theanti-cancer immune response. An understanding of these factors,in combination with the tumour biology, will hopefully allow thedevelopment of new treatments or prognostic markers.

Further informationKaren Slater, [email protected], 01482 466326

Blood, Fat and Gas: The Clot Thickens

Monday 6 December 2010Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Professor Khalid Naseem, Professor of Cardiovascular Biology

The formation of a blood clot within an artery is known as arterialthrombosis. This usually affects individuals who already haveatherosclerosis or narrowing of the arteries. Togetheratherosclerosis and arterial thrombosis are responsible for heartattacks, strokes and peripheral vascular disease. These diseasesare the leading causes of mortality in the UK, and consequentlythey impose a significant burden of the National Health Service.As these diseases develop there is a progressive dysfunction ofblood platelets. This lecture will examine the role of bloodplatelets in arterial disease and particularly how fat in the bloodturns these protective cells into propagators of disease.


Inaugural lectures

Felix Whitham and His Contributions to Science

Thursday 20 January 2011 Department of Geography, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Mike Horne

Further informationMike Horne, [email protected], 01482 346784,www.hullgeolsoc.org.uk

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The People’s Last Sigh? European Referendums andthe End of the State

Friday 12 November 2010Room to be confirmed, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus,2.15 pm

Stephen Tierney, Professor of Constitutional Theory, Universityof Edinburgh

This lecture will address the growing use of referendums inEurope to settle matters of the highest constitutional importance.We have seen referendums used to distribute powers within statessuch as the UK and Spain, and to create new states from thecollapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the latest iteration ofwhich was the Montenegrin referendum of 2006. The most widelypublicised referendums in this new wave, however, have beenthose deployed in the process of European integration. Thislecture will explore what the proliferation of direct democracy hasto say about the nature of constitutional sovereignty andchanging patterns of democratic representation in thecontemporary European state, particularly as referendums arebeing used to reclaim popular sovereignty within states at a timewhen the European Union’s constitutional project seems to callinto question the very viability of state sovereignty.

Professor Tierney is Director of the Centre for Constitutional Lawat the University of Edinburgh. He is a visiting professor inInternational Law at Seton Hall Law School, New Jersey, and inPolitical Theory at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

He was awarded a British Academy / Leverhulme Senior ResearchFellowship in 2008 to pursue the project: ‘Let the People Decide:Referendums in a Post-Sovereign Age’. This ongoing projectfocuses on referendums as a case study in the relationshipbetween democracy and constitutionalism, and it will form thesubject for the IEPL lecture.

Further informationDenise Townsend, Law School, [email protected], 01482 465917

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Professor Philippe Sands, QC, University College London

Philippe Sands is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre forInternational Courts and Tribunals at University College London.He is also a member of Matrix Chambers, where he has developedan extensive practice in international law, appearing before manyinternational courts and tribunals in addition to the Englishcourts.

Professor Sands is extremely well known through his many, andregular, media appearances and through numerous publicationsin the field of international law – including his recent works,Torture Team: Uncovering War Crimes in the Land of the Free(2008) and Lawless World: America and the Making and Breakingof Global Rules (2005).

Further informationAnn Ashbridge, Law School, [email protected], 01482 465857

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‘Random Windows Conjuring a Street’: Larkin and the City

Wednesday 29 September 2010 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Sean O’Brien

Although Philip Larkin wrote in praise of rural England, he waslargely a city dweller. Sean O’Brien will consider how Larkinimagines and explores the city, with particular reference topoems set in his adopted home, Kingston upon Hull.

The Afterlife of Philip LarkinFerens Distinguished Lecture

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Philip to Monica: ‘Dearest Bun’

Wednesday 10 November 2010Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Anthony Thwaite

Anthony Thwaite, one of Larkin’s literary executors, and editor ofLarkin’s Collected Poems, Selected Letters and FurtherRequirements, talks about his edition of Larkin’s letters to MonicaJones, the poet’s intimate friend for three decades. Full of wit andhumour, these letters chronicle the poet’s life and attitudes moreclosely and frankly than anything else we have.

Philip Larkin: Life or Art?

Wednesday 24 November 2010Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

James Booth

In an early letter Larkin wrote: ‘in my character there is anantipathy between “art” and “life”’. James Booth explores thepoet’s struggle to reconcile the demands of the social world withhis devotion to poetry.

Larkin: The End of the Line Annual English LectureSee page 20

Further information: Lesley Dye, [email protected], 01482 465845

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Shakespeare in Music: A Brief Introduction

Friday 15 October 2010Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 4 pm

Professor Christopher R Wilson and Dr Lee Tsang

Professor Wilson introduces a special performance ofTchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet fantasy-overture led by Dr Tsang(conductor) and members of Hull Sinfonietta. The performancefeatures school pupils, students, teachers and local amateurswho have worked on this repertoire throughout the day.

Sponsored by Doncaster Music Service and Excellence Hub

Java Band Workshop

Friday 22 October 2010Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 2.30 pm

Jazz/pop workshop for Hull students. Observers welcome.

Hull Chamber Music: A Schumann Celebration

Saturday 23 October 2010Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.15 pm

Pre-concert talk by Graham Saunders.

The Grand Tourists Masterclass


Early music masterclass for Hull students. Observers welcome.

Nordic Jazz Workshop

Friday 5 November 2010Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 2.30 pm

Jazz workshop for Hull students. Observers welcome.

Music events at the Hull Campus

Concerts, masterclasses, workshops and lectures

• Don’t miss the stunning piano-duettists Joseph Tong and WakaHasegawa performing The Rite of Spring.

• Encounter something new in rare duos for trumpet and guitar. • Experience the youthful passion of Tchaikovsky’s much-loved

orchestral masterpiece Romeo and Juliet.• Commemorate Larkin’s special year with a performance of the

collaborative Bridge for Living.• Get into the groove with Jamie Taylor’s Java band. • Mellow out to the sounds of the Nordic jazz saxophonist Froy

Aagre. • Or simply enjoy the best in historically informed performance

from the Grand Tourists and the Ferdinand David Quartet.

There’s something for everyone at the concerts this semester and,as ever, you can attend the various masterclasses, workshops andstudent showcases free of charge.

Listed below are just some of the instructive events thatcomplement this semester’s concert activities. To obtain abrochure covering full details, please contact iHull on 01482462045, pick one up from the iHull office (L172 – First Floor,Larkin Building West) or visit www.ihull.org.

Ninth Grace Black Piano Masterclass


Following their lunchtime recital (see the Arts Programme forfull details), the piano duettists Joseph Tong and WakaHasegawa lead this 90-minute public masterclass featuringthree pianists currently studying at Hull.

Ferdinand David Quartet Workshop

Friday 8 October 2010 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 2.30 pm

Historical performance practice workshop led by Dr GeorgeKennaway, Leeds University. Observers welcome.

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Discovering Blanche Calloway: The First FemaleAfrican-American Big Band Leader

Tuesday 12 October 2010 Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 4.15 pmDr Alyn Shipton, Jazz Critic, The Times

Mozart and the Hass Clavichord

Tuesday 2 November 2010 Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 4.15 pmProfessor John Irving, Director, Institute of Musical Research

Berg as Influenced by Swing: Contextual andAuditory Grounds

Tuesday 16 November, 2010 Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 4.15 pmDr Ian Bamford-Milroy, University of Hull

Channelling Glenn Gould: Masculinities fromTelevision to New Hollywood

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 4.15 pmLarkin Building, L201, Hull CampusDr Julie Brown. Royal Holloway, London

Film, Music, Narrativity: A Royal Musical AssociationStudy Day

Saturday 4 December 2010 Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 9 am to 6 pm

This forum seeks to enhance the debate around questions ofnarrativity, musical referencing and participation in narrativityand narrative-formation in film. Changes of film aesthetics,cultural preferences and cliches may interfere with the waymusic figures in the construction of film narratives, and thescope of these interferences opens a wide-ranging field. Thisforum examines music in films of all genres and periods.

Keynote speaker: Dr Julie Brown, Royal Holloway, London

Registration £10 (members of the Department of Drama andMusic, University of Hull, are entitled to free entrance).Registration forms can be downloaded from www.rma.ac.uk.Sponsored by the Royal Musical Association.

Further information: Dr Alexander Binns, [email protected]

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Music and Poetry: Musical Reactions and CreativeResponses

Friday 26 November 2010Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 2.30 pm

Led by Dr Mark Slater

Composers and performers alike are invited to take part in thistwo-hour workshop exploring creative musical approaches to thepoetry of Philip Larkin. This practical collaborative workshopwill focus on how improvisation can be used to generate andcapture musical ideas. Selected poems will form the basis ofguided improvisations designed to suggest ways to take thoseimportant first steps towards writing a new piece. This follows acelebratory concert in honour of Larkin, featuring his historiccollaboration with the local composer Anthony Hedges – Bridgefor the Living – which marked the official opening of the HumberBridge.

Anthony Thompson Brass Masterclass

Friday 3 December 2010Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 2.30 pm

Brass masterclass for Hull students. Observers welcome.

Further informationFor further details of all music lectures and events, call 01482462045 or email [email protected].

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Molecules and Nanostructures for Solar EnergyConversion

Wednesday 3 November 2010Lecture Theatre A, Department of Chemistry, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm

Professor James Durrant, Professor of Photochemistry, ImperialCollege London

Professor Durrant’s research is focused on solar energyconversion by nanostructured and molecular materials –harnessing solar energy to produce either electricity(photovoltaics) or molecular fuels (e.g hydrogen). For hispioneering work, he was awarded the Royal Society ofChemistry’s Environmental Prize in 2009.

Rolo Riddle and Other Chocolate Challenges

Wednesday 17 November 2010Lecture Theatre A, Department of Chemistry, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm

Dr Stephen Beckett, Visiting Professor, Department of PhysicalSciences, University of Hull

Dr Beckett was involved in research and factory production atRowntree and subsequently Nestlé. Up to his retirement from there in 2006, he was responsible for university and other outsidecollaborations. He has edited Industrial Chocolate Manufactureand Use and Physico-Chemical Aspects of Food Processing. As wellas numerous articles and patents, he is the author of The Scienceof Chocolate, which was published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (2nd edition, 2008). More recently he took on the role of Managing Director of Sporomex, a University of Hull spin-out company dealing with micro-encapsulation. In 2009 hebecame a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and joined our Department of Physical Sciences as a visiting professor.

Further informationDr Nicole Pamme, [email protected], 01482 465027

Physical Sciences seminars

Shipping and Governments: An Uneasy Partnership

Thursday 28 October 2010 Derwent Building, Hull University Business School, HullCampus, 6 pm

Dr Helmut Sohmen, chairman of the shipping industryheavyweight BW Group Ltd, will share his vast professionalexperience and discuss the increased involvement of governmentin the maritime industry.

In its fourth consecutive year, this prestigious public lecture isheld in recognition of the generosity of Dr Peter Thompson, OBE,JP, in endowing a chair in the Business School, which is currentlyheld by Professor David Menachof.

Further information Ian Calvert, [email protected], 01482 463183

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Dyslexia, Rhythm and Music

Wednesday 20 October 2010 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Professor Usha Goswami, Professor of Cognitive DevelopmentalNeuroscience, University of Cambridge

This lecture will show that the fundamental difficulty for childrenwith dyslexia is in analysing the sounds of words. However, theyhave problems with speech rhythm as well as with letter-sounds,syllables and rhymes, and acoustic rhythm perception is aprimary impairment. This suggests that music could offer usefulremediation, as rhythm is more obvious in music than inlanguage.

Usha Goswami is a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, andDirector of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education, whichcarries out research into the brain basis of literacy, numeracy,dyslexia and dyscalculia. She was previously Professor ofCognitive Developmental Psychology at the Institute of ChildHealth, University College London, and, before that, UniversityLecturer in Experimental Psychology at the University ofCambridge. She received her PhD from the University of Oxford in1987; her topic was reading and spelling by analogy. Her currentresearch examines relations between phonology and reading,with special reference to the neural underpinnings of rhyme andrhythm in children’s reading. A major focus of the research isdyslexic and deaf children’s reading. She has received a numberof career awards, including the British Psychology SocietySpearman Medal, the Norman Geschwind-Rodin Prize fordyslexia research, and Fellowships from the National Academy ofEducation (USA) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation(Germany).


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Religious services

Consuming Goods, Consuming People

Thursday 30 September 2010 WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, 4.30 to 6 pm

Professor David Richardson, University of Hull

‘The Products of the East by Free Men’: Sugar, Slaveryand East India Trade, 1823–43

Monday 1 November 2010 WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, 4.30 to 6 pm

Dr Andrea Major, University of Leeds

Slimy Subjects? Barack Obama, Mixed-RaceMetaphors and Neoliberal Multiculturalism

Thursday 2 December 2010WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, 4.30 to 6 pm

Dr Daniel McNeil, University of Newcastle

‘The Key to India’: Southern Africa, Troop Movementsand Britain’s Indian Ocean World, 1795–1820

Thursday 27 January 2011WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, 4.30 to 6 pm

Dr John McAleer, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

Further [email protected], 01482 465892.

Please join us for tea or coffee from 4.15 pm.

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Sunday 5 December 2010Holy Trinity Church, Market Place, Hull, 4.30 pm

Mulled wine and mince pies will be served afterwards. Everyoneis welcome. Tickets will be available for collection from thereception desks in the students’ union and the Venn Buildingfrom early November 2010.

The University of Hull Founder’s Day Service

Tuesday 8 March 2011University Chapel, Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Everyone is welcome. A buffet supper will be served in the ArtCafe foyer immediately after the service.


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During the 2010/2011 academic year, the Scarborough Campuswill host a series of public lectures. The lectures will be open toeveryone and free of charge. Details are available online athttp://pocketcampus.scar.hull.ac.uk.

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Further informationIf you would like to receive further copies of this booklet or yourname and address included in the Public Lectures/Events mailinglist, please contact

Karen Slater Marketing and Communications University of Hull Hull, HU6 7RX

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