Public Events

UCL Events

Below, you can find details of UCL’s events. Unless otherwise indicated, all events are open to staff, students, alumni and the public, there is no need to book in advance and entry is free. As events are subject to change, it is always advisable to confirm details in advance with the named contact.

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If you cannot find an event you expected to be listed here, please contact UCL Room Bookings.

For information about UCL’s exhibitions and collections, and the UCL Bloomsbury theatre programme, use the links at the bottom of this page.

Download the leaflet below for information on events from September to December.

11 May 2009 - May 2010

UCL Institute of Archaeology
‘Discover Culture with Darwin’
Days & Times: Monday-Friday, 1:00pm-5:00pm
This exhibition interprets the research work if the Arts and Humanities Research Council Centre (AHRC) for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity (CECD). It considers the four key themes of contemporary Darwinian thought (variation, transmission, selection and drift) as they apply to techniques, styles and other aspects of cultural traditions.
Advance booking not required
Contact: Ian Carroll, 020 7679 7489

3 June - 22 December

UCL Slade School of Fine Art
‘A Tribute to Bartolomeu dos Santos’
Days & Times: Monday-Friday, 1:00pm-5:00pm
Venue: UCL Slade School of Fine Art
This is an exhibition commemorating Bartolomeu dos Santos’ (1931 - 2008) long association with UCL Slade School of Fine Art, first as a student in the 1950s, then as a teacher and Professor of Printmaking from the 1960s until his retirement in 1996. The exhibition features prints he made as a student, including early nudes, still lifes and cityscapes, as well as a series of spectacular imaginary architectural constructions from the 1770s inspired by the work of Piranesi and Jorge Luis Borges.
Full details

23 October - 3 December

UCL Physics and Astronomy
‘Galileo, Galileo!’
Venue: Islington Arts Factory
Galileo, Galileo! is a project which has created the opportunity for three artists to produce and exhibit work inspired by astronomy. The project was concieved and is being coordinated by Andrew Charalambous. It is also part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009.
The artists will produce work by autumn 2009. The work will be exhibited at the
between 23 til 30 October 2009, with private view on the
evening of 23 October. The project will be presented as one of the three
projects at the discussion evening at UCL on Thursday evening on the 3rd December 2009 (see ‘3 December’ listing [below] for further details of this evening).
Full details
Contact: Dr Andy Charalambous, 07753 639 397

19 November

UCL Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
‘The Primate Paranasal Sinuses: Morphology & Functional Considerations’
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: UCL, Room 106, 1st floor, Anatomy Building, Gower Street
Speaker: Dr Thomas Koppe
Advance booking not required
Contact: Glenda Young, 020 7679 3346

UCL Research Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
‘InsP3-stimulated calcium signalling in cardiac hypertrophy’
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Venue: Room 106, 1st Floor, Anatomy Building, Gower Street
Speaker: Dr H Llewelyn Roderick
7th of 11 Cell & Developmental Biology seminars for 2009 autumn term.
Contact: Glenda Young, 020 7679 3346
Full details

UCL Events
Lunch Hour Lecture: ‘Liverpool to Liverpool’
Time: 1:15pm-2:00pm
Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Simon Faithful
Travelling by container ship, train and bus in the summer of 2008, Simon Faithful completed a journey between one Liverpool and another. The lecture will use 181 digital drawings made on the expedition to present the minutiae and randomness of travel and describe the dislocation of one person along the historic paths of trade and exodus between the ‘old’ world and the ‘new’.
Contact: Dan Martin, 020 7679 7675
Full details

UCL Electronic & Electrical Engineering Department
Inaugural lecture: ‘The Engineering of Physics’
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: UCL Wilkins JBR and JZ Young Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Professor Sir Michael Pepper
In this lecture the history of experimental condensed matter physics will be traced in terms of the phenomena discovered at each advance in the technology.
There will be a reception in the Wilkins JB Rooms from 5:30pm followed by the lecture at 6:30pm in the JZ Young Lecture Theatre
Advance booking required
Contact: Paul McKenna, 020 7679 3186

Postgraduate Study in London - Edinburgh Information Session
Time: 6:30pm - 21:00pm
Venue: Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Road, EH8 8AS
Representatives from four of the leading institutions in London will be holding a presentation followed by an exhibition and offering information, advice and guidance to prospective postgraduate students and applicants in Edinburgh.
Advance booking required
Book a place

UCL Drama Society
‘Dr Faustus’
Time: 7:30pm-11:00pm (approx.)
Venue: The UCL Bloomsbury Theatre
A production of Elizabethan Playwright Christopher Marlowe’s ‘Dr Faustus’, the tale of a man who sells his soul to the Devil.
Ticket cost: £10 (£5 concessions)
Tickets are available to all, with a special promotional offer for schools.
Advance booking required
Contact: Louie Corpe, 07948 343 026
Full details

20 November

UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health
‘Neighbourhood Attributes and Risk of Coronary Calcification’
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Speaker: Dr Daniel Kim
Contact: Floriana Bortolotti, 020 7679 1681

21-22 November

The London - New York Conference - hosted by UCL
‘What Now? Europe and North America in a Disordered World’
Venue: UCL, The Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
This innovative international conference will look at the state of the North Atlantic world in light of the recent administration change in Washington. The conference has drawn on the worldwide influence and renown of UCL, The New York Review of Books and The Guardian to bring together speakers of exceptionl distinction from academia, the media and public life. We hope to open new perspectives on current public realities.
Full details
Book now
Contact: David Merrill

23 November

UCL Centre for Transnational History
‘Global Perspectives on the Current Crisis: The impact of the financial crisis on developing countries’ - lecture 2/3
Time: 6:15pm
Venue: The Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
In this series of lectures, internationally renowned experts probe the origins, development and consequences of the current financial crisis. Audience questions and discussion will follow each talk.
Speaker: Professor Frances Stewart, University of Oxford
Advance booking required
Contact: Bernhard Rieger, 020 7679 7396

24 November

UCL Vice Provost - Operations
‘Association of University Administrators (AUA) London Region 2nd One-Day Conference’
Time: 9:30am - whole day event
Venue: UCL, Wilkins Building
Speakers: Mr Rex Knight and Baroness Blackstone
This one-day conference is open to all those who are involved in management and administration Higher Education. The conference will be hosted at UCL and will include a Plenary, a choice of Working Sessions and a Closing Address with a Networking Wine Reception. Baroness Blackstone (Vice Chancellor of the University of Greenwich) will deliver a plenary address on ‘The Role of Administration in Higher Education: How this is increasing the professionalisation of administration as a career’.
Advance booking required
Contact: AUA Events Team, 0161 275 2063

UCL Events
Lunch Hour Lecture: ‘A Visual People and a Visual Language’
Time: 1:15pm-2:00pm
Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Professor Bencie Woll
There are many myths surrounding British Sign Language - the third most widely used indigeonous language in the UK. In this lecture, Professor Woll will try to dispell some of them by introducing BSL, explaining how it works and exploring the community it has created.
This lecture will have a sign interpreter and an induction loop so please switch your hearing aid to the ‘T’ position.
Contact: Dan Martin, 020 7679 7675
Full details

25 November

UCL Constitution Unit
‘Constitution Unit Public Seminar Series: Reforming Parliament’
Time: 12:30pm
Venue: 29-30 Tavistock Square
Speaker: Dr Tony Wright MP - Chair of the Select Committee on Reform of the House of Parliament
Dr Tony Wright MP will discuss his Committee’s report examining the appointment of members and chairmen of select committees, the appointment of Chairmen and Deputy Chairmen of Ways and Means, scheduling business in House and enabling the public to initiate debates and proceedings in the Commons.
Lunch will be available at 12:30pm before the seminar commenses at 1:00pm.
Advance booking required
Please contact us in advance is you have mobility requirements
Contact: Victoria Spence, 020 7679 4977

UCL Art Collections
‘Printmaking at Slade in the 1970s’
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Venue: Strang Printing Room
Speaker: Professor Paul Coldwell
Contact: Emma Chambers, 0207 679 2540
Advance booking not required
Full details

UCL History of Medicine - Medicine Across Asia Lecture Series
‘Buddhism in Psychotherapy: A Preliminary History’
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: The Welcome Trust, 183 Euston Road, 5th Floor
Speaker: Dr Asaf Federman
Advance booking not required
Contact: Carol Bowen, 020 7679 8163

UCL Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology & Biostatistics
‘Vitamin D and type 1 diabetes - evaluating the causal association’
Time: 2:00pm
Venue: Seminar room B, 2nd Floor WTB, ICH, 30 Guilford Street
Speaker: Dr Elina Hypponen
Advance booking not required
Contact: Helen Bedford, 020 7905 2333

UCL Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching - UCL Deabates in Higher Education Seminar Series
’Becoming professional: A Personal Learning Journey’
Time: 3:30pm
Venue: UCL Chadwick Building, Room 218
Speaker: Dr Jenny Marie
These debates are intended to provide a forum for consideration of a wide range of topics central to higher education.
Advance booking not required
Contact: Peter Phillips, 020 7679 1792

UCL Psychoanalysis Unit
‘Dreams: An Indisciplinary Seminar - Psychoanalysis, Social Anthropology and the Study of Dreams’
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: UCL, Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre, Roberts Building
Speakers: Dr Charles Stewart, Rosine Jozef Perelberg and Briony Fer
Chair: Lesley Caldwell
This is the first inter-faculty collaboration by the Psychoanalysis Unit to think about the interest in and uses of psychoanalysis among staff at UCL. The series begins with dreams, a topic of central interest in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and one of enduring interest in many disciplines.
After the seminar there will be a reception in the Roberts Building Foyer.
Advance booking required
Contact: Nicola Harding, 020 7679 5997

UCL Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
‘Stem Cell Clinic: Targeting and imaging of cells using nanoparticles and high-field MRI’
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: UCL Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street
Speaker: Dr Mark Lythgoe, UCL Division of Medicine
Advance booking not required
Contact: Mariana Resnicoff, 020 7679 3292
Full details

UCL Centre for Advanced Spacial Analysis - CASA Seminar Series
Title: TBC
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: Basement Lecture Theatre, 1-19 Torrington Place
Speaker: Andrew Hudson-Smith, CASA
All welcome
Advance booking not required but please email Christiane Morgan so Security can be informed in advance.
Contact: Christiane Morgan, 020 7679 1809

UCL Italian Department
’Screening of ‘ll piu’ bel giorno della mia vita’
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: UCL Italian Seminar Room, Foster Court 351
Director: Cristina Comencini
Troubled matriarch and widowed grandmother Irene lives alone in a decaying family villa, where she frets about her wayward children and her roses in equal measure. Since the death of her husband, eldest daughter Sara has lived in emotional solitude, unable to open up even to her adolescent son, Marco. She fills the gap by obsessing about whether he might have an accident, that he might be on drugs or ‘worse still’ that he might be gay like his uncle Claudio. Claudio himself feels detached from the family, initially able to accept himself as a gay man only through sexual contact without emotional ties, despite the offer of support from a loving partner. Claudio has never managed to tell his mother about his sexual orientation and even though a successful lawyer, this need fro secrecy puts a strain on his relationship. The middle child, Rita, is apparently the most settled but her passion for veterinarian Davide acts as a line of fracture, splitting her apart from her husband Carlo.
The film will be in Italian with English subtitles.
Advance booking not required
Contact: Dr Cristina Massaccesi, 020 7679 0322

UCL Bartlett School of Architecture
‘International Lecture Series - Term 1 - Lecture 8’
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: UCL Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building, Gower Street
Speaker: Juhani Pallasmaa
Contact: Nadia O’Hare, 020 7679 4642

26 November

UCL Chamber Music Club concert
Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm
Venue: Haldane Room, North Cloister, Wilkins Building, main UCL campus,
Gower Street
If you love music why not join us?
Admission is free and all are welcome
Contact: Jill House, 020 7679 4231
Full details

UCL Museums & Collections
‘The Wolf Man (1941) - on the Big Screen’
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Grant Museum of Zoology
With a cast packed with Oscar winners and nominees, ‘The Wolf Man’ is one of the truly great monster movies. With a script so rich and well written, some of the concepts created in this film have take root in many of our minds as real, old-world werewolf folklore. The dreamlike atmospheres, elaborate settings and chilling musical score all combine to make the film a masterpiece not only for the genre, but for all time.
The film will be followed by a free glass of wine for all and a private view of the Museum.
Speaker: Dr Joe Cain
Admission is free and all are welcome
Advance booking not required
Contact: Andy Richmond, 020 7679 2647
Full details

UCL Events
Lunch Hour Lecture: ‘Living Buildings: Towards Sustainable Cities’
Time: 1:15pm-2:00pm
Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Dr Rachel Armstrong
Dr Armstrong will discuss the potential of ‘metabolic materials’ that possess some of the properties of living systems. By generating such materials it is hoped that our cities will be able to replace the energy they draw from the environment, respond to the needs of their populations and eventually become regarded as ‘alive’ in the same way we think about parks or gardens. Metabolic materials could become a key sustainable technology with the potential to transform the world’s urban environments.
Contact: Dan Martin, 020 7679 7675
Full details

UCL Research Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Venue: Room 106, 1st Floor, Anatomy Building, Gower Street
‘From Ca2+ signalling to bioengetics and cell damage - tales of good and bad Ca2+’
Speaker: Professor Alex Tepikin
8th of 11 Cell & Developmental Biology seminars for 2009 autumn term.
Contact: Glenda Young, 020 7679 3346
Full details

UCL Petrie Museum
’Workers and/or Archaeologists: In Conversation
Time: 6:00pm (conversation begins at 6:30pm)
Venue: UCL Petrie Museum
Professor Stephen Quirke, curator of the Petrie Museum, talks about his recent research on the Egyptians who worked with Flinders Petrie on archaeological excavations from the 1880s to the 1920s. He will look at how integral they were to Petrie’s work in Egypt and how the workers themselves have been lost from the landscape of the history of archaeology.
Speaker: Professor Stephen Quirke
Advance booking required
Contact: Debbie Challis, 020 7679 4138
Full details

UCL Urban Laboratory
‘RIBA Building Futures Debate Series’
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: BDP Hub, Clerkenwell
Speaker: Dr Pushpa Arabindoo
Building Futures hosts an evening scruitinising architectural education and its purpose.
Chaired by Dickon Robinson, the Chairman of Building Futures and featuring contributions from Adrian Forty, Professor of Architectural History at The Bartlett, the Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London with Paul Monaghan Partner at Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and architect and educator and Jeremy Till, Dean of the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster with Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, focusing on socially responsive place-making and Building Futures Advisory Group member, Harriet Harris.
Advance booking not required
Contact: Dr Pushpa Arabindoo, 020 7679 5512
Full details

UCL Institute of Nanotechnology
‘Applying Nanotechnology to Improve Dentistry - A one-day professional training course’
Venue: UCL Eastman Dental Institute
Find out how innovative and convergent medical technologies are contributing to a range of novel treatments promising both major benefits for patients and exciting new opportunities for dentistry.
Advance booking required
Contact: Gemma McCulloch, 01786 458 075
Full details

27 November

UCL Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
‘Special Lecture: Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Commitment, Adaptation and Cancer’
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: UCL Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street
Speaker: Professor Peter Andrews, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield
Advance booking not required
Contact: Mariana Resnicoff, 020 7679 3292
Full details

30 November

UCL Discovering Latin America Film Festival
‘Screening of InvasiÃ³n’
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: UCL, Galton Lecture Theatre, 1-19 Torrington Place
Speaker: Professor Jason Wilson
We are delighted to nvite you to the screening of ‘InvasiÃ³n’ (1969), a little-known gem of Latin American cinematic history and one of the two feature films made with a script by Jorge Luis Borges. The film will be shown in Spanish, with English subtitles. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Professor Jason Wilson and will include the prominent film critic Gonzalo Aguilar and the director Alejo Moguillansky, who produced the DVD extras of ‘InvasiÃ³n’.
Advance booking not required
Contact: Paula Perroni, 07723 71 53 35

UCL Division of Surgery & Interventional Science
‘Adenocarcinoma of the Oesophagus - Management of 2009’
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: UCL Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Professor Derek Alderson
Adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus has risen in insidents in the UK more than any malignancy in the last 20 years. Various approaches to diagnosis, staging and treatment have been associated with modest increases in survival. This lecture focuses on these new approaches and the implications for future research.
Advance booking not required
Contact: Chau Chong, 020 7679 6490

UCL Science & Technology Studies Department
‘Structural Realism: A Case Study based on Lorenz Theory of the Electron’
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: UCL, Room G3, 22 Gordon Square - access to 22 Gordon Square is at the rear of the building
Speaker: Dr Angelo Cei
Advance booking not required
Contact: Jo Pearson, 020 7679 1328

UCL Institute of Human Rights
‘Daoud Hari: The Translator’
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: UCL Christopher Ingold Lecture Theatre
Daoud Hari was born in the Darfur region of Sudan. After escaping an attack on his village in 2003, he entered the refugee camps in Chad and began serving as a translator for major news organizations including the New York Times, NBC and the BBC, as well as for the UN and other aid groups. His 2008 book ‘The Translator’ tells his story. Daoud will be visiting us from his home in Baltimore to talk about his experiences and afterwards there will be an opportunity to buy his book and have it signed.
Advance booking not required
Contact: Richard Menzies-Wilson, 07725 590 364

1 December

UCL Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
‘Special Lecture: Stem cells in mammalian epidermis’
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: UCL Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street
Speaker: Professor Fiona Watt, Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute
Advance booking not required
Contact: Mariana Resnicoff, 020 7679 3292
Full details

UCL Events
Lunch Hour Lecture: ‘The Challenge of HIV Refuses to Disappear’
Time: 1:15pm-2:00pm
Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Professor Deenan Pillay
To mark World AIDS Day this lecture discusses how the AIDS epidemic continues to grow despite our immense knowledge of the virus itself. Professor Pillay will examine some of the failures of the HIV vaccination programme and look at how the roll out of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to the developing world is a priority. Professor Pillay will also discuss how ART is merging with prevention and rapidly becoming the major tool in the fight against HIV.
Contact: Dan Martin, 020 7679 7675
Full details

UCL Institute of Human Rights
‘Darfur: Perspectives on a Region in Crisis’
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: UCL Christopher Ingold Lecture Theatre, Chemistry Department
Speakers: Lord David Alton, Marc DuBois, Daoud Hari, Julie Flint & Michael O’Neill
Chaired by Lord David Alton, this event brings together an esteemed panel, with experience ranging from freelance journalism to direction of MSF. Each panelist will present their interpretation of events in Darfur since violence broke out in early 2003. Following this there will be a panel discussion and the opportunity for the audience to participate. The evening therefore promises to be an insightful introduction to events in the Darfur region, as well as a forum for debate on the crisis.
Advance booking not required
Contact: Richard Menzies-Wilson, 07725 590 364

2 December

UCL Centre for Advanced Spacial Analysis - CASA Seminar Series
‘UrbanDiary: The Spacial Narrative of Everyday Life’
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: UCL, Basement Lecture Theatre, 1-19 Torrington Place
Speaker: Mr Fabian Neuhaus, UCL Centre for Advanced Spacial Analysis
All welcome - please email Christiane Morgan if you wish to attend so Security can be informed in advance.
Contact: Christiane Morgan, 020 7679 1809

UCL History of Medicine
’Is Life a Book and the Body a Text?‘
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: The Wellcome Trust, 183 Euston Road, 5th Floor
Speaker: Dr Adam Bencard
Contact: Carol Bowen, 020 7679 8163
Advance booking not required

UCL Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
‘Lecture: Loss of Spinal Cord Regenerative Ability with Development’
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: UCL Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street
Speaker: Dr Patrizia Ferretti - UCL Institute of Child Health
Advance booking not required
Contact: Mariana Resnicoff, 020 7679 3292
Full details

UCL Bartlett School of Planning - London Planning Seminar Series
‘Lessons from Hammarby Sjostad - A Sustainable Urban Development in Stockholm’
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: UCL Bartlett School of Planning, Room 517, Wates House, 22 Gordon Street, WC1H 0QB
Speaker: Stellan Fryxell - Partner, Tengbom Architechs, Stockholm, Sweden
Refreshments available after talk
Contact: Dr Ben Clifford

UCL Vice-Provost Office (Research)
’UCL Town Meeting on Evolution’
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: UCL Archaeology Lecture Theatre, 31-34 Gordon Square, WC1
Panel: Professor Ruth Mace, Professor Stephen Shennan, Dr Christophe Soligo and Professor Mark Thomas.
UCL has a long tradition of many excellent scientists and social scientists working on human evolution but they are scattered across different department and faculties. However, this event brings the different disciplines together, so come and get involved and join the discussion about how to promote research in this area at UCL.
The discussion will be followed by a reception in the UCL Anthropology Staff Common Room, 14 Taviton Street.
Advance booking required
Full details and registration
Contact: Tola Okogwu, 020 7679 8585

UCL Institute of Human Rights

‘Human Rights in Darfur: The International Community’
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: UCL Wilkins Building, Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Speakers: Dr Saladin Meckled-Garcia, Fabrico Guariglia, Richard Hermer QC, Louise Roland-Gosselin
With a view to evaluating the response of global organisations, has international law failed the people of Dafur? This esteemed panel promises to deliver and interesting and informatiove presentation of their experience of working for the protection of human rights in regions of conflict.
Advance booking not required
Contact: Richard Menzies-Wilson, 07725 590 364

3 December

UCL Events
Lunch Hour Lecture:‘Studying Dinosaur Evolution - An early 21st century perspective’
Time: 1:15pm-2:00pm
Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Dr Paul Upchurch
The study of dinosaur evolution is a growing field - thanks in part to an influx of new information from China, Argentina and other previously neglected parts of the world. New technology is also providing palaeontologists with new ways of extracting data form fossils discovered decades ago. This lecture will provide and update on new insights into dinosaur evolution and set out some of the prospects for future research.
Contact: Dan Martin, 020 7679 7675
Full details

UCL Research Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
‘The private lives of IP3 receptors’
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Venue: Room 106, 1st Floor, Anatomy Building, Gower Street
Speaker: Professor Colin Taylor
9th of 11 Cell & Developmental Biology seminars for 2009 autumn term.
Contact: Glenda Young, 020 7679 3346
Full details

UCL Hospitals
‘UCL Hospital Open Day’
Times: 3:30pm-6:00pm
Venue: University College Hospital, 235 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BU
The UCLH annual open event sees the flagship University College Hospital showcasing its services to the public. You can take a tour of the departments including the high-tech radiotherapy unit and the Macmillan information centre, become a virtual doctor in our state-of-the-art education centre and browse over 40 interactive displays from different services and meet the frontline staff who provide them.
To add festive cheer, there will be entertainment, carol singing, mince pies and the official switch on of the Christmas tree lights by globe trotting adventurer Ben Fogle.
Advance booking not required
Full details

UCL Crucible Centre
‘Cafe Scientifique lecture’
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: UCL Print Room Cafe
Speaker: Professor Geraint Rees
Advance booking not required
Contact: Roselle Thoreau, 020 7679 1597
Full details

UCL Physics and Astronomy
‘Galileo, Galileo!: What does Science get from Art?’
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Venue: UCL, Jeremy Benthan Room
Panel Members: Professor John Aiken, Professor Mark Lancaster, Liliane Lijn, Maggie Siemple OBE, Professor Marina Wallace and Isambard Poulson.
Galileo, Galileo! is a project which has created the opportunity for three artists to produce and exhibit work inspired by astronomy. The project was concieved and is being coordinated by Andrew Charalambous. It is also part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009.
The artists will produce work by autumn 2009. The work will be exhibited at the
Islington Arts Factory between 23 till 30 October 2009 [see listing above], with private view on the Friday evening of 23 October. The project will be presented as one of the three projects at the discussion evening at UCL on Thursday evening on the 3 December 2009. This evening will include presentations of three art/science projects and a short panel and audience discussion.
Register here
Full details
Contact: Dr Andy Charalambous, 07753 639 397

4 December

UCL Office of Vice-Provost (Research)
‘Just Enough: Sufficiency and the Cultural Imagination’
Time: 11:30am
Venue: UCL Chadwick Lecture Theatre
This one-day symposium ‘Just Enough: Sufficiency and the Cultural Imagination’ will examine how different cultures and contexts (institutions, disciplines, places, periods) have characterised and fleshed out the idea of ‘enough’. We will hear from several academics (from UCL and other universities) about particular resonances of the idea of ‘enough’ in their disciplines or period. Members of UCL English Language & Literature will also offer us part of a linguistic and cultural history of ‘enough’ as it has been manifested in Britain over the centuries. This will be followed by roundtable discussions in which questions that emerge in response to short papers will be explored by panellists and audience members.
Advance booking required
Contact: Tola Okogwu, 020 7679 8585

UCL Office of Vice-Provost (Research)
‘Just Enough: Sufficiency and the Cultural Imagination - Debate’
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: UCL Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
A roundtable discussion following the one-day symposium ‘Just Enough: Sufficiency and the Cultural Imagination’ with academic representatives from the symposium, as well as Nicola Baird, environmental journalist, Saamah Abdallah (New Economics Foundation), and Danny Chivers, slam poet and activist.
Please also see the one-day ‘Just Enough: Sufficiency and the Cultural Imagination’ symposium (above).
Advance booking required
Contact: Tola Okogwu, 020 7679 8585

UCL International Health Department
‘Spotlight on Darfur: The Role of Media in Conflict’
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: UCL, Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1, Cruciform Building, Gower Street
Speaker: John Steele
The media has become one of the most powerful and influential forces of our time. It plays an essential role in the recognition and presentation of conflicts to the western world and subsequently influences our level of response. However, Darfur is no longer ‘fashionable’ and recently the media has been accused of simplifying the conflict, over eagerly using terms such as ‘genocide’ and antagonising aid agencies. Is the media’s influence doing more harm than good?
This panel discussion is the finale to UCL’s Darfur Week campaign and is set to be provicative debate by some of the most discerning minds in the media today.
Advance booking not required
Contact: Richard Menzies-Wilson, 07725 590 364

5 December

UCL Art Collections
‘Greet with Art: Making seasonal greeting cards’
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm
Venue: Strang Printing Room
Inspired by the Slade collection of greeting cards by artists such as Paula Rego and Richard Hamilton, in this workshop you can enjoy creating some original cards in time for the holiday season.
Contact: Emma Chambers, 0207 679 2540
Drop-in - all ages welcome
Advance booking not required

7 December

UCL History of Medicine
’Healers and Psychiatrists: The Transformation of Mental Health Care in Tajikistan 1867-2007‘
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: The Wellcome Trust, 183 Euston Road, 5th Floor
Speaker: Mr Alisher Latypov
Contact: Carol Bowen, 020 7679 8163
Advance booking not required

UCL Centre for Transnational History
‘Global Perspectives on the Current Crisis: The Current Crisis: Alternative Histories’ - lecture 3/3
Time: 6:15pm
Venue: The Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
In this series of lectures, internationally renowned experts probe the origins, development and consequences of the current financial crisis. Audience questions and discussion will follow each talk.
Speaker: Professor Charles S. Maier, Harvard University
Advance booking required
Contact: Bernhard Rieger, 020 7679 7396

8 December

UCL Events
Lunch Hour Lecture: ‘The Right to Obscene Thoughts’
Time: 1:15pm-2:00pm
Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Professor Stephen Guest
This lecture discusses how genuine freedom must include all manner of thought, including the irrational, the bad, and the obscene, and how the recent new offence of possessing extreme pornography has breached this principle.
Contact: Dan Martin, 020 7679 7675
Full details

UCL Union
‘Winter Market by Cabbages and Frocks’
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: UCL Quad and Northb Cloisters
UCL Union are expanding their annual Charity Concert to include a winter markt running throughout the day. It will be selling arts and crafts and all things pretty; a brilliant opportunity to get ahead with present buying for the season. Drop in to get ahead with present buying or to treat yourself and then stay for a song or two after work at the concert (see below).
Contact: Grace Barnett, 020 7679 7985

UCL Union
‘Charity Concert in the Quad’
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: UCL Quad
Join UCL Union for a festive sing along in the main UCL Quad. Santa will give gifts to children and mince pies and mulled wine will be available for adults. Proceeds this year will go to the Multiple Sclerosis Society. This year the concert has expanded to include a winter market supllied by Cabbages and Frocks (see above).
Contact: Grace Barnett, 020 7679 7985

UCL Chamber Music Club concert
Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm
Venue: Haldane Room, North Cloister, Wilkins Building, main UCL campus,
Gower Street
The programme will include the Cesar Franck Sonata for Violin and Piano.
Admission is free and all are welcome
If you love music why not join us?
Contact: Jill House, 020 7679 4231
Full details

UCL Museums & Collections
‘Adventures of a Fossil Collector’
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: UCL Grant Museum of Zoology
Geologists, like cats, have 9 lives, and over the last 40 years Professor Richard Fortey has used up 8 of his in collecting trilobites around the world. In this lecture he will describe some of the many fascinating adventures he has had.
A drinks reception and private viewing of the museum will follow the lecture.
Advance booking not required
Contact: Andy Richmond, 020 7679 2647
Full details

9 December

UCL Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
‘Stem Cell Clinic: Periodontal and bone regeneration in dento-alveolar region - from preclinical models to clinical evidence’
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: UCL Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street
Speaker: Dr Nikos Mardas, UCL Eastman Dental Institute
Advance booking not required
Contact: Mariana Resnicoff, 020 7679 3292
Full details

UCL Centre for Advanced Spacial Analysis - CASA Seminar Series
‘CensusGiv: Geovisulisation of the 2011 UK Census’
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: Basement Lecture Theatre, 1-19 Torrington Place
Speaker: Hanif Rahemtulla (McGill University, Canada)
All welcome
Advance booking not required but please email Christiane Morgan so Security can be informed in advance.
Contact: Christiane Morgan, 020 7679 1809

UCL Bartlett School of Architecture
‘International Lecture Series - Term 1 - Lecture 9’
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: UCL Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building, Gower Street
Speaker: Mark Pauline
Contact: Nadia O’Hare, 020 7679 4642

10 December

UCL Events
Lunch Hour Lecture: ‘The Making of Johnson’s Dictionary’
Time: 1:15pm-2:00pm
Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Professor John Mullan
Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language taught the British how to spell, established Shakespeare as their greatest writer and provided the first and longest lasting map of the English language in all its subtlety and variety. To mark the 225th anniversary of the death of Samuel Johnson, this lecture will tell the extraordinary story of how the first dictionary was made and take you inside what has become the least well known great book of our literature.
Contact: Dan Martin, 020 7679 7675
Full details

UCL Research Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Venue: Room 106, 1st Floor, Anatomy Building, Gower Street
‘Molecular basis of different modes of mitochondrial Ca2+ fluxes’
Speaker: Professor Wolfgang Graier
10th of 11 Cell & Developmental Biology seminars for 2009 autumn term.
Contact: Glenda Young, 020 7679 3346
Full details

UCL Department of Political Science
‘Launch of the staff-student research project - Nominal Commitment to Human Rights: A Global Survey’
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: UCL Pearson Lecture Theatre
Speakers: Dr Basak Cali (UCL Polictical Science)
Keynote Speakers: Mr Osvaldo Marisco (Sharge d’Affairs, The Embassy of Argentina in the UK) and Meghna Abraham (Head of the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Team, International Secretariat of Amnesty International)
This research project presents a global and comprehensive picture of the state of commitment to human rights through international law. Created by a team of staff and student researchers from UCL’s Department of Polictical Science, the project’s aim is to document states’ legal commitment to international treaties concerned with human rights issues as well as international oversight and judicial mechanisms. The Survey will assist researchers to analyse the global picture of legal commitments to human rights and to compare countries globally as well as within and across regions.
Advance booking required
Contact: Alice Wyss, 020 7679 4992

12-13 December

UCL Psychoanalysis Unit
‘Psychic Truth & Psychic Reality Conference’
Start times: Sat 12 Dec - 8:30am / Sun 13 Dec - 9:30am
Venue: UCL, Cruciform Building, Lecture Theatre 1, Gower Street
Speakers: Dr David Taylor, Dr Rudi Vermote, Chris Mawson, David Tuckett, Elias Mallet Da Rocha Barros and Elizabeth Lima Da Rocha Barros.
This two day conference will explore the issue of psychic truth through plenary sessions, smaller parallel paper sessions and clinical seminars. The conference will also honour Ruth Riesenberg Malcolm on the occasion of her 80th birthday. Refreshments (tea and coffee) and book stands will be located in the North Cloisters (UCL Wilkins Building).
Advance booking required - there is a special price for students
Cost: £120 - please note that lunch is not included in this fee.
Booking contact: Nicola Harding, 020 7679 5997

15 December

UCL Chamber Music Club, Christmas Concert
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: North Cloisters, Wilkins Building, main UCL campus, Gower Street
The programme will include the Overture and Nativity music from Handel’s Messiah and Vaughan William’s Fantasia on Christmas Carols. Seasonal refreshments will be provided after the concert. If you love music why not join us?
Admission is free and all are welcome
Contact: Jill House, 020 7679 4231
Full details

16 December

UCL Centre for Advanced Spacial Analysis - CASA Seminar Series
‘Modelling Dynamic Urban Growth in Support of Planning Policy Making’
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: Basement Lecture Theatre, 1-19 Torrington Place
Speaker: Dong Han Kim, CASA
All welcome
Advance booking not required but please email Christiane Morgan so Security can be informed in advance.
Contact: Christiane Morgan, 020 7679 1809

UCL Bartlett School of Architecture
‘International Lecture Series - Term 1 - Lecture 10’
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: UCL Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building, Gower Street
Speaker: Dawn Ades
Contact: Nadia O’Hare, 020 7679 4642

17 December

UCL Research Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
‘Imaging neocortical microcircuit plasticity in healthy and diseased brains’
Venue: Room 106, 1st Floor, Anatomy Building, Gower Street
Speaker: Dr Vincenzo de Paola
11th of 11 Cell & Developmental Biology seminars for 2009 autumn term.
Contact: Glenda Young, 020 7679 3346
Full details

UCL Museums & Collections
‘The Incredible Human Journey’
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: UCL Grant Museum of Zoology
Who are we and where do we come from? Genetics, archaeology and fossils come together to provide some answers. Amazingly, we can all trace our ancestry back to Africa, where our species appeared around 200,000 years ago. Dr Alice Roberts, presenter pf the BBC series ‘The Incredible Human Journey’, tracks the ancient migrations that took our ancestors to the corners of the Earth: through stones, bones and genes, the story of our incredible human journey unfolds.
Following the lecture there will be a drinks reception and a private view of the Museum.
Speaker: Dr Alice Roberts
This event is free and advance booking is not required
Contact: Andy Richmond, 020 7679 2647
Full details

19 December

UCL Mathematics Department
‘M1 Revision Day’
Time: 10:00am
Venue: UCL Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Speakers: Dr Luciano Rila, Chris Brown (Imperial College), Jenny Davey (Kingston University)
This is a revision day designed for A-Level students writing Mechanics 1 (M1) exam in January 2010. Sessions will cover Kinematics, Forces, Friction, Vectors, Momentum, Newton’s Laws, Projectiles, Variable acceleration (calculus) and Exam Technique. Students will receive a substantial revision pack which will contain summary sheets and solutions to exam questions.
Cost: £20.00
Advance booking required
Contact: Luciano Rila, 07732558198

22 & 23 December

UCL Museums & Collections
‘Christmas Creatures’
Time: 1:00pm-5:00pm
Venue: Grant Museum of Zoology
How do arctic animals cope with the cold? Do penguins shiver? And why do fish freeze? From mountains to icebergs, the Grant Museum’s specimen-based hand-on activities investigate the lives of the world’s snow-bound beasts. Interactive games will also look at ice-age animal and will happen if our ice melts.
Admission is free and all are welcome
Advance booking not required
Contact: Andy Richmond, 020 7679 2647
Full details

2010

13 January

UCL Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
‘Seminar: Repair of CNS injuries by olfactory ensheathing cells’
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: UCL Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street
Speaker: Professor Geoffrey Raisman, UCL Institute of Neurology
Contact: Mariana Resnicoff, 020 7679 3292
Full details

23 February

UCL Picture Club
‘Draw Meeting’
Time: from 5:30pm
Venue: UCL, Haldane Room
Events for UCL staff
Drinks will be provided
Contact: Marion Mark, 020 7679 1426

3 June