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National Portrait Gallery: Paul Smith to J K Rowling

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Larkin Reflections - New Voices/Hull Voices poetry readings

As part of the University’s celebration of literature for 2017 “The Word is Hull”, we are hosting a series of three poetry readings celebrating new poetry, Hull poetry, and the poetic inheritance of Philip Larkin. The venue is the Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull where Philip Larkin was Librarian and where the City of Culture Larkin Exhibition will be showing from July to October. 

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BP Cultural Visions Lecture Series: Kevin O’Hare, Director of the Royal Ballet

Looking at the journey from inspiration to creativity featuring Kevin O'Hare, Director of the Royal Ballet. 

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Thwaite/Botanic Gardens City of Culture Open Days

Open Garden

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Exhibition - Ethel Leginska: The Musical Pioneer

Ethel Leginska, was the Hull-born pianist who paved the way for women all over the world to find a place on the professional conducting podium. Our exhibition seeks to recognise this now forgotten trailblazer by celebrating her rightful place in British history and demonstrating her significance for the future.

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Hull International Cello Encounter

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 Culture 2017 celebrations, to take place over the weekend of 29-30 July.

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Hull Rises - Bread Baking and Creative Writing at Western Library, Hull

Join poet John Wedgwood Clarke, artisan baker Patrick Crabtree and visual artist Laura Wilson for a tasty day of baking, creative writing and discussion. Families welcome. Materials provided.

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Pride in Hull Tea-Time Talk - ‘Eurovision: the Biggest Pride Parade in Europe?’

A Talk and Discussion Event - Part of the OpenCampus 'Reflections on Gender and Sexuality' Tea-Time Talk Series for Pride in Hull week

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Pride in Hull Tea-Time Talk - ‘How do we know what we think we know?’

"How do we know what we think we know? Trans issues and the production of ignorance" by CN Lester

A Talk and Discussion Event - Part of the OpenCampus 'Reflections on Gender and Sexuality' Tea-Time Talk Series for Pride in Hull week

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Pride in Hull Tea-Time Talk - ‘Where Only Those Who Don’t Belong, Belong”

Where Only Those Who Don’t Belong, Belong”: The Queerness of Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe.

A Talk and Discussion Event - Part of the OpenCampus 'Reflections on Gender and Sexuality' Tea-Time Talk Series for Pride in Hull week

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Festival of Textiles and Community Archaeology

Get a hands-on guide to history through the Festival of Textiles and Community Archaeology. 

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Pride in Hull Tea-Time Talk: “Over the Rainbow: Pride, Politics & LGBT Liberation” the 2017 Edition

Part of the OpenCampus 'Reflections on Gender and Sexuality' Tea-Time Talk Series for Pride in Hull week

Nicola Field - Writer, Artist and Activist.

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Pride in Hull Tea-Time Talk: “Wedding Jitters” Why is the Church so freaked about same sex marriage?

Part of the OpenCampus 'Reflections on Gender and Sexuality' Tea-Time Talk Series for Pride 50 week.

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Dr Ferret’s Bad Medicine Roadshow

Beware Dr Ferret and his gang! The doctor and his Sweetheart Singers are out to find out just how mischievous today’s children really are, as they sort the good eggs from the bad.

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Larkin Reflections - New Voices/Hull Voices poetry readings

Join us to hear these poets read from their work and for a chance to chat with them during an interval.

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BP Cultural Visions Lecture Series – Nick Cullinan

Looking at the journey from inspiration to creativity featuring Nick Cullinan - Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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OUR CRIMINAL ANCESTORS: PUBLIC WORKSHOPS

Skeleton in your closet? Black sheep in the family? Sinister secret hiding in your family tree?

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Trent Falls to Spurn Point

The world premiere of an original, multi-channel sound installation from internationally acclaimed and BAFTA award-winning sound artist Chris Watson. 

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Cairns: A Walk with the Artist

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BBC Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend

Pianist Anna Tilbrook, tenor James Gilchrist, the Sacconi Quartet and friends join the BBC at the University of Hull’s Middleton Hall for a Big Chamber Weekend - four concerts celebrating the city’s musical, cultural and political heritage.

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BBC Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend: THE BLITZ

Pianist Anna Tilbrook, tenor James Gilchrist, the Sacconi Quartet and friends join the BBC at the University of Hull’s Middleton Hall for a Big Chamber Weekend - four concerts celebrating the city’s musical, cultural and political heritage. The four concerts will be presented by Petroc Trelawny and broadcast on Radio 3 in October.

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BBC Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend: THE NORTH SEA

Pianist Anna Tilbrook, tenor James Gilchrist, the Sacconi Quartet and friends join the BBC at the University of Hull’s Middleton Hall for a Big Chamber Weekend - four concerts celebrating the city’s musical, cultural and political heritage. The four concerts will be presented by Petroc Trelawny and broadcast on Radio 3 in October.

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BBC Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend: WILBERFORCE

Pianist Anna Tilbrook, tenor James Gilchrist, the Sacconi Quartet and friends join the BBC at the University of Hull’s Middleton Hall for a Big Chamber Weekend - four concerts celebrating the city’s musical, cultural and political heritage. The four concerts will be presented by Petroc Trelawny and broadcast on Radio 3 in October.

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Piano recital - Graziana Presicce

A lunchtime classical piano recital by PhD student Graziana Presicce.

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BBC Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend: WRITERS Old and New

Pianist Anna Tilbrook, tenor James Gilchrist, the Sacconi Quartet and friends join the BBC at the University of Hull’s Middleton Hall for a Big Chamber Weekend - four concerts celebrating the city’s musical, cultural and political heritage. The four concerts will be presented by Petroc Trelawny and broadcast on Radio 3 in October.

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Conference on Ancient Legal and Political Philosophy

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Democracy and Experts: Ancient Perspectives on a Contemporary Theme’

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NAM - the Annual National Astronomy Meeting

Galaxy Zoo: From Penguins to Peas - Dr Chris Lintott - Public Lecture with The 2017 National Astronomy Meeting

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Soapbox Science Hull 2017

Soapbox Science is back for 2017. Come and listen to our amazing female scientists talking about their research.

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Chris Watson - Cultural Visions Lecture

A presentation in 30 channel surround-sound from BAFTA award-winning sound artist and field recordist Chris Watson. Chris is one of the world's leading recorders of wildlife and natural phenomena - in his own words ‘putting a microphone where you can't put your
ears’. 

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Sound + Environment 2017 Art | Science | Listening | Collaboration

Sound + Environment 2017 is a four day conference bringing together artists and scientists to explore the ways that sound can deepen our understanding of environments.

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BP Cultural Visions Lecture Series – ‘Poetry in the Beginning’ by Sir Andrew Motion

Looking at the journey from inspiration to creativity featuring Sir Andrew Motion.

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Hull Noah Play 2017

You are warmly invited to the Hull Noah Play, a resurrection of a proud medieval tradition in the city – as part of Hull 2017. 

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Summer lunchtime concert

The New International Chamber Ensemble (NICE) will perform a menu of varied chamber music in Hull Minster.

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Sounding the Sea Symposium by Invisible Dust

Sounding The Sea, major two-day symposium exploring our artistic and scientific connections to the ocean. 

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‘More than Larkin: Hull in national biography: 300 lives from de la Pole to Leo Schultz’

This event marks Hull's City of Culture year by celebrating the 300 'Hull lives' in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography with a panel discussion by experts and local celebrities, introduced by Professor Sir David Cannadine, acclaimed historian of Modern Britain and General Editor of the ODNB. 

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Gendering Cities of Culture

Preliminary observations on the production of cultures of gender equality in Donostia/ San Sebastián European Capital of Culture 2016.

Organised by Culture, Place and Policy Institute (CPPI) 

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Literary Locals: Jack Returns Home (Get Carter) by Ted Lewis

Part of the Open Campus Reading Group 'Literary Locals' season

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CultureCafe: The Making of a Mosaic: The influence of Celtic migrants upon the development of Hull

Part of History@Hull's 'City of Culture' series of Culture Cafe events

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Big Friendly Culture: A celebration of Children’s Literature and Laureateships

This is a one day event which is held the day before the announcement of the Children’s Laureate for 2017- The new children’s laureate will be unveiled in Hull, City of Culture 2017 and will take over from the current inspirational postholder, Chris Riddell, in a ceremony at Hull City Hall on the 7th of June.

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David Hammond - ‘An Introduction to the Development of Human Rights at Sea’

Institute of Applied Ethics Seminar

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History Makers on Tour

The University Library will be running a crafts event under the banner of History Makers on Tour. 

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‘New Voices at Hull - Poetry Readings for the City of Culture’

As part of the University’s celebration of literature for Hull City of Culture 2017 "The Word is Hull", we are hosting a series of three poetry readings celebrating new poetry.

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The Humber Bridge: engineering triumph and cultural icon

The Humber Bridge is an engineering triumph, an important piece of transport infrastructure, and a cultural icon.

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BP Cultural Visions Lecture Series – Deborah Bull in conversation

Looking at the journey from inspiration to creativity featuring Deboray Bull, Assistant Principal at King's College London.

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CultureCafe: Our roots: what is Britishness?

Part of History@Hull's 'City of Culture' series of Culture Cafe events

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The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in the United States

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Literary Locals: South Riding by Winifred Holtby

Part of the Open Campus Reading Group 'Literary Locals' season

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Doc’n Roll Film Festival Hull: Supersonic

Doc'n Roll Film Festival Hull presents Supersonic

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Music from Katharine Norman Featuring Flautist Carla Rees

An immersive multi-media experience performed through our loudspeaker orchestra HEARO (Hull Electroacoustic Resonance Orchestra). 

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Dido & Aeneas

Students from across the School of Arts perform an extended production of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, including an original re-imagining of the lost prologue from 1689.

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George De Boer Biennial Public Lecture

Palaeobiologist and mammoth expert Dr Tori Herridge is visiting Hull to share her research on the evolution of dwarf elephants, which once lived on Mediterranean islands but are now extinct.

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Cryptography: From Enigma to Elliptical Curve Cryptography

The history of cryptography can be likened to a reawaking history of mathematics and computer science. The story of cryptography goes back 4000 years and some of the mathematics employed goes back as long. 

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Virtual Wilberforce

The University of Hull and the School of Simulation and Visualisation (SimVis) at The Glasgow School of Art are bringing pioneering abolitionist, William Wilberforce, whose movement led to the passing of the Slave Trade Act (25 March 1807), ending Britain’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, back to life with innovative 3D technology.

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Thomas Gould and Gwilym Simcock

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Literary Locals: Scream if You Want to go Faster by Russell Litten

Part of the Open Campus Reading Group 'Literary Locals' season

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Flow² (Part II) - David Braid and the Sinfonia UK Collective

Sinfonia UK Collective 

David Braid: piano
Lee Tsang: conductor

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A most active, enterprising officer’: the boundaries of slavery and liberty in the Caribbean

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The Annual Victorian Lecture

‘The Ambridge Woodlanders – The Archers’ debt to Thomas Hardy and the Victorian serial. Speaker: Adrian Flynn (Scriptwriter to The Archers.)

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CultureCafe: New Hull Lives in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: A Celebration

Part of History@Hull's 'City of Culture' series of Culture Cafe events

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Hull: From City of Culture to Intercultural City

A seminar series organised by the Culture, Place and Policy Institute

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The Annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture ‘The Last Days of William Shakespeare’

Professor Gordon McMullan explores the curious resurgence of the eighteenth-century notion that William Shakespeare wrote his last plays not in theatrical London, but rural Stratford-upon-Avon.

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BP Cultural Visions Lecture Series – Richard Twose

Looking at the journey from inspiration to creativity featuring Richard Twose, artist. 

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Risk, Networks and Privateering in Liverpool during the Seven Years’ War

Part of the Maritime Historical Studies Centre Seminar Series 2016-17

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The Berkeley Ensemble in concert

Hailed as ‘an instinctive collective’ (The Strad) the Berkeley Ensemble takes its name from two British composers of the last hundred years, father and son Sir Lennox and Michael Berkeley

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International Conference on Musical Cultures, 3 - 5 April 2017

To celebrate Hull as the UK's City of Culture in 2017, the School of Drama, Music and Screen will host a 3-day International Interdisciplinary Conference based on the overarching theme of ‘Musical Cultures’

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Hull Science Festival

With input from the University of Hull, the Science Museum and science performers from around the country, this year’s festival is all about showcasing the role of science, maths and engineering within our culture.

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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell: The Discovery of Pulsars and their Extreme Physics

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has made many exceptional contributions to physics. She is best known for the discovery of massive rotating neutron stars that appear to pulse regularly and so became known as pulsars.

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Water Fluoridation Conversation

Do you have questions or concerns about plans to add fluoride to Hull’s water supply?

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Can Music Change our Immune System?

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Personalised Medicine: Can Micro-Technologies Pave The Way?

This interactive session will discuss how lab on a chip technology can be used as an alternative for testing drugs and helping clinicians treat patients.

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Hull’s Dan Billany: Teacher, Writer, War Hero

Dan Billany Exhibition at the History Centre from 28 February to 31 March

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IWD: International Women’s Day 2017

Here at the University of Hull, we are celebrating International Women’s Day with a programme of more than 20 events to reflect the great strides that women have made, and continue to make, in the University and beyond.

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London Sinfonietta: under the skin by arrangement with studiocanal

Intoxicating. Captivating. Extraordinary. These are just some of the words used to describe the BAFTA-nominated score composed by Mica Levi that underpinned Jonathan Glazer’s 2014 sci-fi epic, Under the Skin.

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Student Showcase IV - Classical

From pop to jazz, classical to electronica, our students are composing and performing stunning original pieces on a daily basis.

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Between national and transnational: commemorating slavery and abolition in the French-speaking world

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Inspired in Hull: In conversation with Jeremy Darroch, Group CEO of Sky

A graduate of the University of Hull, Jeremy will share experiences and insights about the changing world of business and its implications for the leaders of the future.

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The Jazz Aesthetic at Hull Jazz

Funky contemporary jazz from University music students.

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Professor Jackie Ford - ‘Ethical Leadership and the Dark Side’

Institute of Applied Ethics Seminar

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Tea-Time Talks: Digital Dystopias: Imagining Our Virtual Futures in a Post -Orwellian World

Tea-Time Talks Series (Spring 2017): Spies, Trolls, Drones and Polls: Being(s) in Cyberspace

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Professor Veronica O’Mara: The Education of a Medievalist: English Godly Literature Unbound

Inaugural Lecture: The Education of a Medievalist: English Godly Literature Unbound to be given by Professor Veronica O’Mara Professor of Medieval English Literature

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Hull Independent Cinema at Middleton Hall: Moonlight

Hull Independent Cinema presents: Moonlight

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Hull: City of Cinema (Sunday)

Celebrating Hull's film and television makers and cinemas, past present and future.

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Hull: City of Cinema (Saturday)

Celebrating Hull's film and television makers and cinemas, past present and future.

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IWD: The Female Gaze

This exhibition is not simply for women.

We are celebrating some of the city’s wonderful female artists – and we need your help to do that. Hull’s women form a strong part of the city’s lifeblood, and its artists are no exception.

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Hull: City of Cinema (Friday)

Celebrating Hull's film and television makers and cinemas, past present and future.

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Hull: City of Cinema Conference

A three-day conference exploring and celebrating the contribution of Hull and East Yorkshire to British cinema and television. 

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IWD: How to Start and Grow Your Business with Helena Hills

Helena Hills is the Co-Founder & CEO of multi award-winning TrueStart Performance Coffee, the only coffee in the world designed for sports performance.

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Venn Lecture: ‘Maths versus disease’

Venn Lecture 2017

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Staff-led Ensembles

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The 2017 Andrew Marvell Lecture: Marvell’s Imagined Worlds

Professor Paul Hammond explores the landscapes of Marvell's poetry, beginning with Marvell's life in Hull. He will be speaking in the chancel of the church where Marvell’s own father once preached.

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Tea-Time Talks: Perceptions of Privacy, Surveillance, Trust, and Security in Online Life

Tea-Time Talks Series (Spring 2017): Spies, Trolls, Drones and Polls: Being(s) in Cyberspace

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IWD: The role of business and business schools in addressing Gender Equality and Women’s empowerment

ESRC RESEARCH SEMINAR

‘The role of business and business schools in addressing Gender Equality and Women’s empowerment’

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Carry On Up the Khyber Film Screening

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Literary Locals: Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith

Part of the Open Campus Reading Group 'Literary Locals' season

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CultureCafe: Medicine Made in Hull

Part of History@Hull's 'City of Culture' series of CultureCafe events

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IWD: Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) Athena SWAN Masterclass

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Student Showcase III - Jazz and Pop

From pop to jazz, classical to electronica, our students are composing and performing stunning original pieces on a daily basis.

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Professor Kate Pickett - ‘Persisting in Error: Evidence for action in health and social policy’

Institute of Applied Ethics Seminar

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Tea-Time Talks: The Strategic and Moral Implications of Cyber Attack

Tea-Time Talks Series (Spring 2017): Spies, Trolls, Drones and Polls: Being(s) in Cyberspace

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