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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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OpenCampus Reading Group – North American Fictions The Great Gatsby (1925)

Speaker: Becca Devine, PhD Candidate in English Literature, University of Hull.

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OpenCampus Culture Café – GEMS: ‘Deadly clouds and volcanic flows’

OpenCampus Culture Café – ‘GEMS of Hull Geology, Environment, Marine Science and Us - Tales from Yorkshire and beyond’.

‘Deadly clouds and volcanic flows’

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The Journey to Creating Strong Communities

Signs of Safety and Restorative Practice in NE Lincs Council.

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Watching the Transnational Detectives: Inspector Falke

Watching the Transnational Detectives: a series of screenings of and conversation around your favourite international TV dramas. 

The ‘Watching the Transnational Detectives’ project is a funded study into understanding the UK’s fascination with foreign language crime dramas. We are aiming to find out what you the audience really think and feel when you watch these shows.

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Ligeti Quartet In Recital: Songbooks

Ligeti Quartet showcase works for string quartet by some of the most exciting composers of recent times.

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OpenCampus Tea-Time Talk -‘Sex education and teenage pregnancy’

OpenCampus Tea-Time Talk -‘Sex education and teenage pregnancy –how are they linked and have we got it right?’

Speaker: Professor Mark Hayter, Professor of Nursing and Health Research, University of Hull.

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Middle East Study Group Guest Lecture: The Refugee ‘Crisis’ in Europe

The Refugee ‘Crisis’ in Europe: Between Luxembourg, Lesbos, Brussels, Dublin, and Aleppo

Dr Reuven Ziegler
Associate Professor in International Refugee Law
University of Reading, UK

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War at sea in the Middle Ages; what is known about weapons and tactics?

Blaydes House Maritime History Seminar Series October-December 2018
‘War at sea in the Middle Ages; what is known about weapons and tactics?’ - Dr Susan Rose (Roehampton University)

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Passenger Car 425

‘Places reserved for the most elite of elite, and imagine that… You’re one of them…’

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Watching the Transnational Detectives: Inspector Montalbano

Watching the Transnational Detectives: a series of screenings of and conversation around your favourite international TV dramas. 

The ‘Watching the Transnational Detectives’ project is a funded study into understanding the UK’s fascination with foreign language crime dramas. We are aiming to find out what you the audience really think and feel when you watch these shows.

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‘From Horn to Hope: The Oromo children of Lovedale, South Africa’

From Horn to Hope: The Oromo children of Lovedale, South Africa’, by Dr Sandy Shell

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The Breath: ‘Let The Cards Fall’

The Breath is guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach (pron. Ray-nuh) Connolly. 

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I Told You I Was Ill - Three short contemporary, surreal dramas

I Told You I Was Ill - Three short contemporary, surreal dramas inspired by the life and work of Spike Milligan. 

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Watching the Transnational Detectives: Spiral

Watching the Transnational Detectives: a series of screenings of and conversation around your favourite international TV dramas. 

The ‘Watching the Transnational Detectives’ project is a funded study into understanding the UK’s fascination with foreign language crime dramas. We are aiming to find out what you the audience really think and feel when you watch these shows.

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Jakob Fichert In Recital: The Virtuoso Poet – Poetic Virtuosity

Liszt and Busoni are known for their dazzling virtuosity, their star-status in the musical world of their time and their affinity to the poetic. 

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OpenCampus Reading Group – North American Fictions, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Margaret Atwood

Speaker: Layla Hendow, PhD Candidate in English Literature, University of Hull.

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MORE - Cultures of Equality

The final event of the series 'The Conversation Continues' addresses conversations as an artistic practice. The event embraces the open space technique in order to create more debates and exchanges about cultures of equality.

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Sing along: The Greatest Showman

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Hull Science Festival: The Demo Show - Tricks of the mind

Hull Science Festival: An interactive family show taking an interactive look at the brain boggling science of illusions
 

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Hull Science Festival: Hack your Brain

Hull Science Festival: A family show that provides a whistle stop tour of your brain and nervous system
 

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Hull Science Festival: SWAT! A Fly’s Guide to Staying Alive

Hull Science Festival, Show: A fun and informative family show about survival tactics for insects.
 

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Hull Science Festival: Get hands on with eye surgery!

Hull Science Festival, Demonstration Lecture: What's it like to perform eye surgery?
 

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Hull Science Festival: Mastering Memory

Hull Science Festival workshop: Takes a hands-on tour of the brain.
 

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Hull Science Festival: Destroy this book in the name of science

Hull Science Festival workshop: Tear apart this book and make ace science things!
 

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Hull Science Festival: Robot Forensics

Hull Science Festival: A robotics meets forensic workshop!
 

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Hull Science Festival: The Discovery Zone

Hull Science Festival: Interactive science, technology and engineering exhibits for all ages.
 

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Hull Science Festival: Lab Rascals - Slime & jelly worms workshop

Hull Science Festiva Workshop: Get hands on with this Lab Rascals workshop all about the science of slime.
 

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Hull Science Festival: The Demo Show: Use the Force

Hull Science Festival: A demo packed family show about the phenomenal science of forces
 

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Hull Science Festival: Physics Gets to the Heart of the Matter

Hull Science Festival: A family show that uses physics to peer into your chest. 
 

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Hull Science Festival: Dr Death and the Medievil medicine show

Hull Science Festival: A historically, scientifically accurate panto for children and other childish people.
 

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Hull Science Festival: How does it all fit?

Hull Science Festival, Demonstration Lecture. Your body is crammed packed with organs, all slotted together like a 3D jigsaw. 
 

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Hull Science Festival: Supercomputing life in future oceans: how will the future smell?

Hull Science Festival, Demonstration Lecture. Carbon dioxide isn't just affecting the atmosphere, its changing the oceans as well.
 

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Hull Science Festival: Control Freak

Hull Science Festival: A robot building workshop! Need we say more?
 

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Hull Science Festival: Hull Raspberry Pi Jam

Hull Science Festival hosts the ever popular Rasperberry Pi Jam workshop.
 

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Hull Science Festival: Chemistry in Minecraft

Hull Science Festival workshop: Bringing the wonders of chemisry to the wonderful world of Minecraft.
 

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Distortions in Space Time - Step inside a black hole in a new immersive art installation

Experience what it’s like to step inside a black hole with a brand-new immersive experience from audiovisual pioneers Marshmallow Laser Feast.

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Heritage Open Days at the University of Hull

University of Hull Heritage Open Days 2018
 

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Heritage Open Days 2018 Talks: Working off your debt? Slavery then and now, Dr Judith Spicksley

How was it that slavery was ever acceptable in law? This 30 minute talk will challenge you to think about slavery in a different way. Interested? Intrigued? Come and join the discussion.

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Heritage Open Days 2018 Talks: Between Two Bridges

Heritage Open Days 2018 Talks: Between Two Bridges: the rich maritime history of the River Hull with particular reference to the Drypool and North Bridge waterfront area, Dr Robb Robinson

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Heritage Open Days 2018 Talks: William Wilberforce, the ‘Great Change’, and the Hull connection

Heritage Open Days 2018 Talks: William Wilberforce, the ‘Great Change’, and the Hull connection, Dr David Bagchi

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Heritage Open Days 2018 Talks: Anti-trafficking policy in the UK, Dr Lorena Arocha

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Heritage Open Days 2018 Talks: From Hull to Bordeaux

Heritage Open Days 2018 Talks: From Hull to Bordeaux: Andrew Marvell, the wine trade, and the seventeenth-century struggle for religious toleration, Dr Stewart Mottram

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Heritage Open Days 2018 Talks: The Making of a Mosaic – migration through the port city of Hull

This illustrated talk by migrant historian Dr Nicholas Evans, of the University of Hull, explores a project which has occupied him for the past two decades – namely that Hull played a crucial role in facilitating numerous waves of migrants from Europe, the Middle East and further afield. 

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Heritage Open Days 2018 Talks: The Role of Heritage in European Cities and Capitals of Culture

By Professor Franco Bianchini

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Freedom Talks: What does freedom mean to you? A debate by children and young people from Hull

We hear from children their thoughts, views and feelings on the topic of Freedom. 

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Freedom Talks: Modern Day Slavery and Culpability led by Annie Kelly

Award-winning human rights journalist and editor of the Guardian's Modern-day slavery in focus series, Annie Kelly, leads a discussion on where responsibility for modern day slavery falls.

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Freedom Talks: Hello, is there anyone out there? Co-presented with the British Science Festival

The search for life elsewhere poses many scientific questions, but also deeper questions about our existence on Earth. 

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The Wilberforce Lecture with Dr Helen Pankhurst

Freedom Festival and The Wilberforce Lecture Trust are honoured to welcome Dr Helen Pankhurst, women's rights activist and great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, to deliver this year’s annual Wilberforce Lecture.

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Freedom Talks: Big Picture Activism for Systemic Change led by Local Futures

Led by Local Futures’ Associate Programs Director Anja Lyngbaeck we look at what ‘Big Picture Activism’ is, how it works and is it the answer to many of the challenges facing the world today. 

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OpenCampus Reading Group – North American Fictions, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976)

Speaker: Gul Dag, PhD Candidate in English Literature, University of Hull.

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Death Online Research Symposium 4

The 4th Symposium of the International Death Online Research Network will explore the ways in which online connectivity is changing how, when and where we engage with death and dying and how we invest death-related practices with meaning in the online environment.

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#echochamber

An interactive Anglo-Icelandic Twitter opera that ask: where do we live today? On or offline?

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OpenCampus Reading Group – North American Fictions, We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003)

Speaker: Dr Ellen Ricketts, University of Hull

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Hull’s Cultures of Knowledge - Apocalypse and Reform

Hull's Cultures of Knowledge 
Dr Rita Voltmer - Apocalypse and Reform

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Hull’s Cultures of Knowledge - Preaching and Print

Hull's Cultures of Knowledge 
Professor Ann Thayer - Preaching and Print

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Hull’s Cultures of Knowledge - Greek Bibles from Erasmus Onwards

Hull's Cultures of Knowledge 
Professor Keith Elliott - Greek Bibles from Erasmus Onwards

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Opera North’s Big Sing: World War One

Join us for a wonderful evening of music making as pupils from Kingswood Parks Primary School and Bude Park Primary School join forces to perform World War One themed music in a massed choir, accompanied by members of the Chorus of Opera North

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Hull Schools Gotta Dance

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OpenCampus Reading Group: The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945), Tove Jansson

OpenCampus Reading Group - Reliving Children’s Favourite Literature

Speaker: Catherine Sadler, PhD Candidate in Creative Writing, University of Hull.  

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OpenCampus Culture Cafe – ‘Hull: Culture, History, Place’

'Richard Bean: Hull Playwright?' and 'Hull, the East Riding and Me' Knowledge Share Event’

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I am Mehdi Ahmadi

Two new performances created for Refugee Week, followed by a Q and A with writers, directors and actors. 'I am Mehdi Ahmadi' is the story of a refugee's journey to Hull.

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Summer Song

An evening of a cappella with Hull University Barbershop Society, Humber Harmony, and Harmony Lincs.
 

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Sanctuary in Education

Talks exploring the experiences of forced migrants and the role university plays as a place of sanctuary.

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Hull’s Cultures of Knowledge - Christians and Jews in the Age of Reformation

Dr Kenneth Austin - Christians and Jews in the Age of Reformation

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Capitals and Cities of Culture: a worldwide experience

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Sanctuary Football Match

A football match involving refugees, asylum seekers and University staff

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(Media)ted

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Conserving the Most Threatened Family of Sharks, Pristidae

Conserving the Most Threatened Family of Sharks, Pristidae - the Role of Aquariums in Working Towards the IUCN Global Sawfish Strategy

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Institute of Applied Ethics Symposium: Work & the Good Life

Institute of Applied Ethics Symposium:
Work & the Good Life: Utopias, Alternatives, Ethical Perspectives
 

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‘Shade matters’: the importance of skin tone in former slave societies, a Jamaican case study

By Dr Henrice Altink, University of York.

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Tea-Time Talk: ‘Lady Butler at War’: Painting Conflict from the Crimea to the First World War

OpenCampus Tea-Time Talk - Creative Conversations 

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BBC Visit - ‘The Social’

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Tea-Time Talk: Performance Training In An Expanded Field

OpenCampus Tea-Time Talk - Creative Conversations 

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Pint of Science

Pint of Science brings scientists out of the lab and in to your local pub!

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Tea-Time Talk: Crossing the Line: Women in Rugby League 1950s – present day

OpenCampus Tea-Time Talk - Creative Conversations 

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OpenCampus Reading Group: Northern Lights (1995), Phillip Pullman

OpenCampus Reading Group - Reliving Children’s Favourite Literature

Speaker: Dr Janine Hatter, University of Hull.  

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Culture cafe: Memory on the Waterfront in late Twentieth-Century Hull

OpenCampus Culture Cafe - ‘Hull: Culture, History, Place’

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Culture Cafe:Trauma and utopianism in Second World War Hull – Part 2

Culture Cafe - ‘Hull: Culture, History, Place’

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Library Live

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Screening: Black Christmas

Where Forgiveness is not in the saying, it’s in the doing
 

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Mary Wollstonecraft Annual Public Lecture: ‘Complaint: Feminism, Diversity, Work and Institutions’

The lecture explores how complaint can be understood as a form of diversity work, as what you have to do in order to make institutions more accommodating. 

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Tea-Time Talk: Sympathy: Then and Now

OpenCampus Tea-Time Talk - Creative Conversations 

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Theatre for Children

An opportunity for families to come to the theatre together, to see a performance aimed at children in key stages 1 and 2. 

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HUMS Summer Concert 2018

Hull University Music Society Summer Concert 2018

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CLAC #4

CLAC is a series of cutting-edge new music and performance art.

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The Garnet Rees Memorial Lecture

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Al Morrison’s Blues Experience

The Blues Experience is a large band celebrating the music of the great Blues artists such as BB King, Robert Johnson, T Bone Walker, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton and many more. 

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Rethinking Sexual Violence in the Emancipation-Era Caribbean

By Professor Diana Paton, University of Edinburgh.

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Makuru: Formalising the Informal in Nairobi

Makuru: Formalising the Informal in Nairobi
Dr Steve Cinderby (Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York)
 

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Tea-Time Talk: The Music and Music Theory of Paul Hindemith

OpenCampus Tea-Time Talk - Creative Conversations 

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Annual Shakespeare Lecture 2018 #Me Too: Measure for Measure in the Twenty-First Century

Annual Shakespeare Lecture 2018 presented by Professor Emma Smith from Hertford College Oxford

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School of Law and Politics Annual Law and Politics Lecture: Human Rights – Where Are We Going?

The Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP will be presenting the Annual Law and Politics Lecture at the University of Hull.
 

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Claude Debussy: In Memoriam

Students from the University of Hull present a special showcase concert exploring the influential musical legacy of Claude Debussy (1862-1918). 

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Geoffrey Bond ‘The Life and Times of a Lawyer & Broadcaster – why not be a Polymath!’

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Institute of Applied Ethics presents: ‘Snap’ Perception

Institute of Applied Ethics presents:
‘Snap’ Perception: The Ethics of the Photographic Reflex in Contemporary Times
Professor Donna Ladkin, University of Plymouth
 

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Tea-Time Talk: Breakbeat science: groove as rhythm and sound, from funk to footwork

OpenCampus Tea-Time Talk - Creative Conversations 

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