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MusicThe Breath: ‘Let The Cards Fall’
The Breath is guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach (pron. Ray-nuh) Connolly.
04 October 2018
Middleton Hall, University of Hull -
LectureCultural Policy, Professional Ethics and the Public Good
13 November 2018
Austen and Blake Rooms, Canham Turner -
MusicThe Breath: ‘Let The Cards Fall’
The Breath is guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach (pron. Ray-nuh) Connolly.
04 October 2018
Middleton Hall, University of Hull -
LectureCultural Policy, Professional Ethics and the Public Good
13 November 2018
Austen and Blake Rooms, Canham Turner -
MusicThe Breath: ‘Let The Cards Fall’
The Breath is guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach (pron. Ray-nuh) Connolly.
04 October 2018
Middleton Hall, University of Hull -
LectureCultural Policy, Professional Ethics and the Public Good
13 November 2018
Austen and Blake Rooms, Canham Turner -
MusicThe Breath: ‘Let The Cards Fall’
The Breath is guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach (pron. Ray-nuh) Connolly.
04 October 2018
Middleton Hall, University of Hull -
LectureCultural Policy, Professional Ethics and the Public Good
13 November 2018
Austen and Blake Rooms, Canham Turner
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Society of Graphic Fine Art Members Only Regional Exhibition
Exhibition Space, Brynmor Jones Library, University of Hull
27 July 2018
Our Creativity
Mar
“It’s been enlightening”
History student Ethan Harding gained valuable work experiences at the University of Hull during the Hull UK City of Culture year: firstly as a Gallery Assistant on a National Portrait Gallery...
Dec
Ben Fowler: Music graduate to international composer
It has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride for music graduate Ben Fowler.
Oct
First Government Art Collection exhibition for UK City of Culture
Oct
CAIRNS sculptures to stay until end of 2017
Sep
New BBC festival kicks off in Hull
The University of Hull will help showcase some of the best of British poetry and spoken word this month.
Sep
Catching up with music graduate Ross Flight
Sep
University of Hull prepares to Tell the World
Aug
A chat at the barre with Kevin O’Hare
Kevin O’Hare is coming to the University of Hull on Wednesday 16 August to share his incredible 40-year journey from dancer to Director of the Royal Ballet as the Company prepares to take to the...
Jul
Summer on campus – Larkin and beyond
The University’s programme for Hull 2017 continues this summer, lots to do on campus – and it’s all open to the public.
Jul
Hull goes a bit Brazilian for an international midsummer festival of classical music
The University of Hull, in collaboration with the Rio Cello, is pleased to announce a major festival of cello concerts led by the distinguished cellist Dr David Chew OBE, as part of the Hull City of...
Previous Events
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).
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.
Event Reviews
It was good to be able to read the information about the paintings and artists - THANKS TO THE...
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.
Event Reviews
There are some amazing original paintings on view, and a great privilege to be able to see them...
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.
Event Reviews
Really enjoyed the trail so came back for a second look. I’ve never been on the campus before and...
An Eyeful of Wry: Government Art Collection
Presenting works rife with wit and a hint of the absurd, An Eyeful of Wry is an exhibition intent on exploring art cut with a wry sense of humour.
Event Reviews
An intriguing and gripping exhibition, curated invitingly, it indicates that something is working...
National Portrait Gallery: Paul Smith to J K Rowling
Event Reviews
Great exhibition, well presented and lit. We loved it, wanted to stay longer than time allowed.
Sing along: The Greatest Showman
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
Hull Science Festival: Hack your Brain
Hull Science Festival: A family show that provides a whistle stop tour of your brain and nervous system
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.
Hull Science Festival: Get hands on with eye surgery!
Hull Science Festival, Demonstration Lecture: What's it like to perform eye surgery?
Hull Science Festival: Mastering Memory
Hull Science Festival workshop: Takes a hands-on tour of the brain.
Hull Science Festival: Destroy this book in the name of science
Hull Science Festival workshop: Tear apart this book and make ace science things!
Hull Science Festival: Robot Forensics
Hull Science Festival: A robotics meets forensic workshop!
Hull Science Festival: The Discovery Zone
Hull Science Festival: Interactive science, technology and engineering exhibits for all ages.
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.
Hull Science Festival: The Demo Show: Use the Force
Hull Science Festival: A demo packed family show about the phenomenal science of forces
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.
Hull Science Festival: Dr Death and the Medievil medicine show
Hull Science Festival: A historically, scientifically accurate panto for children and other childish people.
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.
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.
Hull Science Festival: Control Freak
Hull Science Festival: A robot building workshop! Need we say more?
Hull Science Festival: Hull Raspberry Pi Jam
Hull Science Festival hosts the ever popular Rasperberry Pi Jam workshop.
Hull Science Festival: Chemistry in Minecraft
Hull Science Festival workshop: Bringing the wonders of chemisry to the wonderful world of Minecraft.
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.
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.
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
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
Heritage Open Days 2018 Talks: Anti-trafficking policy in the UK, Dr Lorena Arocha
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
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.
Heritage Open Days 2018 Talks: The Role of Heritage in European Cities and Capitals of Culture
By Professor Franco Bianchini
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
OpenCampus Reading Group – North American Fictions, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976)
Speaker: Gul Dag, PhD Candidate in English Literature, University of Hull.
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.
Event Reviews
This looks interesting. May I attend one of the sessions?
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#echochamber
An interactive Anglo-Icelandic Twitter opera that ask: where do we live today? On or offline?
OpenCampus Reading Group – North American Fictions, We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003)
Speaker: Dr Ellen Ricketts, University of Hull
Hull’s Cultures of Knowledge - Apocalypse and Reform
Hull's Cultures of Knowledge
Dr Rita Voltmer - Apocalypse and Reform
Hull’s Cultures of Knowledge - Preaching and Print
Hull's Cultures of Knowledge
Professor Ann Thayer - Preaching and Print
Hull’s Cultures of Knowledge - Greek Bibles from Erasmus Onwards
Hull's Cultures of Knowledge
Professor Keith Elliott - Greek Bibles from Erasmus Onwards
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
Hull Schools Gotta Dance
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.
OpenCampus Culture Cafe – ‘Hull: Culture, History, Place’
'Richard Bean: Hull Playwright?' and 'Hull, the East Riding and Me' Knowledge Share Event’
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.
Summer Song
An evening of a cappella with Hull University Barbershop Society, Humber Harmony, and Harmony Lincs.
Event Reviews
A most enjoyable evening with a variety of songs to suit all ages. The compere added a bit of...
Sanctuary in Education
Talks exploring the experiences of forced migrants and the role university plays as a place of sanctuary.
Hull’s Cultures of Knowledge - Christians and Jews in the Age of Reformation
Dr Kenneth Austin - Christians and Jews in the Age of Reformation
Capitals and Cities of Culture: a worldwide experience
Event Reviews
Will there be online streaming?
Sanctuary Football Match
A football match involving refugees, asylum seekers and University staff
(Media)ted
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
Institute of Applied Ethics Symposium: Work & the Good Life
Institute of Applied Ethics Symposium:
Work & the Good Life: Utopias, Alternatives, Ethical Perspectives
‘Shade matters’: the importance of skin tone in former slave societies, a Jamaican case study
By Dr Henrice Altink, University of York.
Tea-Time Talk: ‘Lady Butler at War’: Painting Conflict from the Crimea to the First World War
OpenCampus Tea-Time Talk - Creative Conversations
BBC Visit - ‘The Social’
Tea-Time Talk: Performance Training In An Expanded Field
OpenCampus Tea-Time Talk - Creative Conversations
Pint of Science
Pint of Science brings scientists out of the lab and in to your local pub!
Tea-Time Talk: Crossing the Line: Women in Rugby League 1950s – present day
OpenCampus Tea-Time Talk - Creative Conversations
OpenCampus Reading Group: Northern Lights (1995), Phillip Pullman
OpenCampus Reading Group - Reliving Children’s Favourite Literature
Speaker: Dr Janine Hatter, University of Hull.
Culture cafe: Memory on the Waterfront in late Twentieth-Century Hull
OpenCampus Culture Cafe - ‘Hull: Culture, History, Place’
Culture Cafe:Trauma and utopianism in Second World War Hull – Part 2
Culture Cafe - ‘Hull: Culture, History, Place’
Library Live
Event Reviews
Thank you for making this event open to the public. I found the film and the discussion moving,...
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.
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.
The Garnet Rees Memorial Lecture
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.
Rethinking Sexual Violence in the Emancipation-Era Caribbean
By Professor Diana Paton, University of Edinburgh.
Makuru: Formalising the Informal in Nairobi
Makuru: Formalising the Informal in Nairobi
Dr Steve Cinderby (Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York)
Tea-Time Talk: The Music and Music Theory of Paul Hindemith
OpenCampus Tea-Time Talk - Creative Conversations
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
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.
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).
Geoffrey Bond ‘The Life and Times of a Lawyer & Broadcaster – why not be a Polymath!’
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
Event Reviews
Many thanks for the invite to Donna Ladkins’ Ethics and Photography lecture. I found it quite...
Tea-Time Talk: Breakbeat science: groove as rhythm and sound, from funk to footwork
OpenCampus Tea-Time Talk - Creative Conversations
Vengeance, Atrocity and the Body
This year, second-year Drama students having been exploring how contemporary performance aesthetics can be used to adapt and appropriate historically distanced plays that deal with themes of violence, atrocity and vengeance.
The Systems View of Life: A Science for Sustainable Living
The Centre for Systems Studies invites you to the second Annual Mike Jackson Lecture on Systems Thinking to be delivered by Dr Fritjof Capra, the internationally celebrated award winning writer, scientist, educator and activist.
Sound Art of the Railways
Two musical works housed in each of the University’s two 1935 Giles Gilbert Scott-designed telephone kiosks.
Hull Chamber Music Presents: Tamsin Waley-Cohen & Hugo Ticciati In Recital
The Virtuoso Violin
OpenCampus Reading Group: Matilda (1988), Roald Dahl
OpenCampus Reading Group - Reliving Children’s Favourite Literature
Speaker: Professor Valerie Sanders, School of Arts, University of Hull.
Tamsin Waley-Cohen & Hugo Ticciati in Recital
Children’s rights and modern slavery
Children’s rights and the current and possible impact of the work of the Children’s Commissioners on children caught up in modern slavery and exploitation.
Tea-time Talk: Performing Craftivism: Resistant Bodies in Protest Spaces
OpenCampus Tea-Time Talk - Creative Conversations
Institute of Applied Ethics Annual Debate 2018: “On immigration and integration”
"David Goodhart vs. Lord Bhikhu Parekh: On immigration and integration"
‘We Trust in God’: searching for Franklin’s crew in the Archives
‘We Trust in God’: searching for Franklin’s crew in the Archives
Jeremy Michell
National Maritime Museum
Acoustic & Electronic Orchestra
Austrian Short Film Festival in Hull
The OeAD lecturers at nine universities throughout the UK are screening the short films that were nominated for the Austrian Film Prize, as well as the winning film.
Event Reviews
Enjoyed the screening, particularly the variety of films from fiction to documentary. bravo to all.
Making Performance: The Birds By Aristophanes
A tale of two friends trying to start a new life that turns into a daring bid to usurp the gods and overthrow Zeus.
andrew-marvell-lecture-marvell-and-manuscript-culture- POSTPONED to a later date TBC
Third Annual Andrew Marvell Lecture 'Marvell and Manuscript Culture'
Event Reviews
Not understood - attended similar lecture last year at the Archive History library