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Society of Graphic Fine Art Members Only Regional Exhibition

The University of Hull is hosting an exhibition of work by members of the Society of Graphic Fine Art (SGFA). 

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Scottish Colourists from the Fleming Collection

The University of Hull will be showing a major exhibition, Scottish Colourists from the Fleming Collection from 25 May to 15 July 2018.

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Painting Power: the art of Terence Cuneo

Painting Power: The Art of Terence Cuneo is the Science Museum Group’s contribution to Hull UK City of Culture 2017.

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Cairns

An exhibition of life size sculptures by Icelandic artist Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir placed around the campus, stimulating thought and reflection about the historic connection between Iceland and Hull. 

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Opera North: La petite bohème

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OpenCampus Reading Group Series – Books on Film presents The Color Purple (1982), Alice Walker

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OpenCampus Culture Café Series: ‘Space: The Final Frontier’ ‘Chemistry on a comet’

By Dr David Benoit, Astrochemist at the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Hull.

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Shakespeare Schools Festival

14th November: Endike Primary and Ainthorpe Primary
15th November: Endike Primary and Wold Primary Academy

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Hull Jazz Festival -  Yazz Ahmed: Polyhymnia

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Hull Chamber Music presents Michael Matthews in Recital

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Hull Jazz Festival - Muhammad: The Rumble in the Jungle in concert

Hull Jazz Festival
Ikarai presents the dance of the century
Muhammad: The Rumble in the Jungle in concert
 

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The Middle East Studies Group: How the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Can be Resolved?

The Middle East Studies Group (MESG) Research Seminar
How the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Can be Resolved?
Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor
 

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OpenCampus Tea-Time Talks – Gothic Nature presents ‘Gothic Rats: The Nature of Gothic Vermin’

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The East Coast War Channels in the First World War

Rescheduled from 4 November

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The Institute of Applied Ethics presents The Open Society and two of its enemies or “Plato = Hitler”

The Institute of Applied Ethics presents:
The Open Society and two of its enemies or “Plato = Hitler”
Professor David Weinstein (Wake Forest University, USA)
 

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Showcase Gig: Refracture

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Bringing Breathlessness into View

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Friday Night Debate: What is the future of (art in) prisons?

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Hull Chamber Music presents Chiaroscuro String Quartet

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Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)

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‘I am the Coyote’ Film Screening: A Sense of Freedom (1979)

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Viewing of ‘I am the Coyote’ rare books and archive material

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‘I am the Coyote’: Creative Writing Workshop

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‘Piano’: Hull Piano School Student Concert

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The Unthanks The Emily Bronte Song Cycle + Special guests The Bookshop Band

Doors 7.00 pm
Bookshop band 7.30 pm – 8.05 pm
Interval 8.05pm – 8.30 pm
The Unthanks 8.30 – 10.00 pm

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West End Nights

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Beatrice’s Spell

"I've lived a thousand, thousand, thousand lives but none of them were mine." 

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Friday Night Debate: Creativity in prison - should people flourish inside?

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OpenCampus Tea-Time Talks – ‘Landfills and Garbage in American Gothic imagination’

OpenCampus Tea-Time Talks – Gothic Nature presents ‘Landfills and Garbage in American Gothic imagination’ 

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Royal Opera live broadcast screening: Don Pasquale

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Music Plega

A journey through the clarinet’s diverse interaction with 20th- and 21st-century chamber ensemble music, this concert showcases Rae W Todd with the fantastic Berkeley Ensemble.

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OpenCampus Reading Group Series – Books on Film presents Notes on a Scandal (2003), Zoë Heller

OpenCampus Reading Group Series – Books on Film presents Notes on a Scandal (2003), Zoë Heller

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Panto of the Dead

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OpenCampus Culture Café Series: ‘Space: The Final Frontier’ ‘Wonders of the Universe’

By Professor Brad Gibson, Head of Physics & Maths and Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Hull.

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[postponed] A Pint of Business and Culture: ‘Six Ways to Think about Creativity’

Unfortunately, this event has been postponed. Please check back for the rescheduled date.

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The Institute of Applied Ethics presents: Dr Vanja Čelebičić (Migration Yorkshire)

The Institute of Applied Ethics presents:
Dr Vanja Čelebičić (Migration Yorkshire)
‘The Ethics and Practice of Digital Storytelling as a Research Method with Young People who Seek Asylum in the UK’

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‘I am the Coyote’ Film Screening: Silent Scream (1990)

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Viewing of ‘I am the Coyote’ rare books and archive material

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‘I am the Coyote’: Drawing workshop with Graft Studio

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Friday Night Debate: Are prisons for punishing or rehabilitating?

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Bruch and Beethoven

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra launch the 2019/20 classical season in Hull with Beethoven's victorious 'Eroica'. 

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Pre-concert talk with Francesca Dego

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Svarc Hanley Longhawn

Nik Svarc – guitar/loops
Steve Hanley – drums
Martin Longhawn – organ/keys

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A Pint of Business and Culture: ‘The Power of Stories’

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Inspired in Hull with Luis Sambo: Leading the Fight Against Ebola, West Africa 2014

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Royal Opera live broadcast screening: Don Giovanni

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How the 1970s Shaped Margaret Thatcher – and Our Politics Today

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From the Art of Sailing to the Science of Navigation

From the Art of Sailing to the Science of Navigation: Seamanship, Typhoons and US Naval Operations in the Western North Pacific, 1944–45

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Hull Chamber Music presents Isata Kanneh-Mason – Romance: a Portrait of the Life of Clara Schumann

Hull Chamber Music presents Isata Kanneh-Mason – Romance: a Portrait of the Life and Music of Clara Schumann

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A Pint of Business and Culture: ‘Wabi-Sabi Leadership

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Sir Lenny Henry in Conversation

Sir Lenny Henry in Conversation

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‘I am the Coyote’ Film Screening: A Sense of Freedom (1979)

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Viewing of ‘I am the Coyote’ rare books and archive material

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‘I am the Coyote’: Drawing workshop with Graft Studio

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BBC Radio 3 live recording: The Mother by Bertolt Brecht with music by Hanns Eisler

Sorry, this event has now sold out.

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OpenCampus Tea-Time Talks – Gothic Nature presents ‘The Wendigo and Colonial Monstrosity’

 OpenCampus Tea-Time Talks – Gothic Nature presents ‘The Wendigo and Colonial Monstrosity in Algernon Blackwood and Stephen King’

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In the face of a climate crisis, why Art?

‘In the face of a climate crisis, why Art?’
Brian Eno considers the question - what is art for and why do we want it in our lives? In conversation with Martin Goodman

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Richard Strange performs the Songs of Lou Reed

An exploration of Lou Reed solo songs that are based on characters – including ‘Walk on the Wild Side’, ‘Satellite of Love’, ‘Charley’s Girl’, ‘Caroline Says II’, ‘Oh Jim’, ‘Street Hassle’ and ‘Sally Can’t Dance’.

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The Roaring Girls - Beach Body Ready

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OpenCampus Reading Group Series – Books on Film presents The Hours (1998), Michael Cunningham

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Lab-on-a-chip technology in biochemistry: a hands-on workshop

A Biochemical Society Training Event

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Freedom Talks

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Is it my Fault?

An exhibition dispelling the myths of rape and sexual assault

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OpenCampus Reading Group Series - Books on Film presents The Circle (2013), Dave Eggers

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Remote Control Humber photography exhibition

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Remembering Srebrenica Memorial Event ‘Bridging the Divide: Confronting Hate’

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Hope Walks By Me -  Justice & Liberty in the Lands of the Free

Book Launch of “Hope Walks by Me; Freedom and Justice in the Lands of the Free” (Barbican Press).

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Sanctuary Football Match

A football match involving sanctuary seekers, members of the University and our local community.
 

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Stories of Sanctuary

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OpenCampus Literary Landscapes Reading Group: ‘Heart of Darkness (1899)’ by Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), hosted by Dr Karen Turner

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OpenCampus Culture Café Talks - ‘Impacts of environmental change on past & present marine ecosystems

GEMS of Hull: Geology, Environment, Marine Science and Us Series 2:  'The impacts of environmental change on the past and present marine ecosystems'

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Rohingya…between two worlds

An evening of projected images and stories to mark the start of Refugee Week

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Philip Larkin: Personality, Poetry, Prose

A conference combining new perspectives on Philip Larkin's life and works, a keynote by Professor James Booth and Larkin-focused activities.
 

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“Summer Song” presented by Hull Barbershop Harmony Club

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OpenCampus Tea-Time Talks - ‘‘What happened to trust? Trust and mistrust of healthcare professionals

Tea-Time Talks - The mental health of pregnant women and new mums: ‘'What happened to trust? - how pregnant women trust and mistrust healthcare professionals after a previous traumatic birth'

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Faces of Slavery Exhibition

An exhibition of photographs by the Guardian from the Modern-day slavery in focus series Faces of Slavery.

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Free family music-making workshops with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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Walking Towards Ithaca

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Hull University Music Society (HUMS) Summer Concert

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Lunch Time Concert - Jurij Likin (Oboe)

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OpenCampus Literary Landscapes Reading Group: ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ (1967) by Joan Lindsay

Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967), hosted by Keith Parsons

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OpenCampus Tea-Time Talks - ‘Fear of Childbirth’ Open Panel Public Forum’

Tea-Time Talks - The mental health of pregnant women and new mums

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White Rose Aesthetics Forum

The White Rose Aesthetics Forum is a collaboration between those working in philosophical aesthetics at the Universities of Leeds, Hull, Sheffield and York. 

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Perception Gap

Conceptualised and Performed by Patrice Naiambana. 

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OpenCampus Culture Café Talks - Mass extinctions: past, present and future

GEMS of Hull: Geology, Environment, Marine Science and Us Series 2:  ‘Mass extinctions: past, present and future’

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Brexit: What Happened and Where Do We Go from Here?

Centre for European Union Studies (CEUS)
Hayward Lecture 2019

Brexit: What Happened and Where Do We Go from Here? 

Professor Anand Menon
King’s College London and Director of UK in a Changing Europe

 

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The bond of family: Slavery, commerce and culture in the British Atlantic world

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25th Anniversary Screening of The Shawshank Redemption & Guest Speakers

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Chinese Whispers Concert

The Confucius Institute at the University of Hull is again pleased to host a free music event, the Chinese Whispers Concert 3, on Tuesday 30 April 2019, at 18:30, in the Middleton Hall.
 

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Theatre Through The Decades A musical theatre extravaganza with orchestra

This musical theatre showcase takes the audience through the last century of musical theatre.

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Musical Beginnings: Inspirations and Memories

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Anti-slavery politics in the Age of Reform

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OpenCampus Tea-Time Talks - Fear of childbirth

Tea-Time Talks - The mental health of pregnant women and new mums: ‘Fear of childbirth; considering the continuum of expectant mothers’ fear, from almost free of fear to severe or disabling fear.'

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Talegate Theatre Company Presents The Little Mermaid, shrimply the best panto

Swimming to Middleton Hall this Easter 2019

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OpenCampus Literary Landscapes Reading Group: ‘Wind in the Willows (1908)’ by Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows (1908), hosted by Sue Hull

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OpenCampus Culture Café Talks - Geology, Environment & Marine Sciences

GEMS of Hull: Geology, Environment, Marine Science and Us Series 2:  Talk by Professor Mike Rogerson and Laura Bastianini

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Theatre for Children

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Nothing Like The Sun: The Gavin Bryars Ensemble

Commissioned by Opera North and the Royal Shakespeare Company, this haunting, dramatic piece for chamber group and voices weaves Gavin Bryars’ music through eight of Shakespeare's most meditative sonnets. The ensemble includes Bryars himself, tenor John Potter, American soprano Claron McFadden and cult Dublin singer-songwriter Gavin Friday. The selected poems focus on themes of time and memory, and each sonnet is spoken by Friday before Potter and McFadden sing Bryars’ setting, allowing for...

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The Shifting Status of of Authors in the World: Randomness and Unpredictability

The Garnet Rees Memorial Lecture 2019 - Speaker Professor Susan Bassnett, Professor of Comparative Literature at the Universities of Glasgow and Warwick. 

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General Systems Theory and its Relevance in Today’s World: Tackling the Grand Challenges of Our Time

The Centre for Systems Studies 2019 Annual Mike Jackson Lecture on Systems Thinking

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