Public lectures at the University
The programme for 2010/11 includes the following lectures to which members of the general public, staff and students are all very welcome. The list will be updated as more lecture titles become available.
This month's lectures
The lecture series has finished for this year. Watch out for the new 2011/12 programme in autumn.
Forthcoming lectures
- RESEARCH
Tuesday 8 November 2011
6.15pm | Room TBC
Title - TBC
Professor Peter Bruce, St Andrews University
Tickets: p.m.mcgrane@bath.ac.uk
- GULP
Wednesday 6 October 2010
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Are the oceans doomed?
Dr Stephen Simpson, University of Bristol
- BIME
Friday 8 October 2010
7pm 5 West 2.1
42nd Annual Lecture of Bath Institute of Medical Engineering (BIME)
The Arm - engineering for rehabilitation
Professor Garth R Johnson, FREng, CEng, FIMechE of Newcastle University and ADL Smartcare Ltd
- GULP
Wednesday 13 October 2010
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Debate: Wind, waves, waste or whatever
In association with the Royal Geographical Society - Millennium
Wednesday 20 October 2010
4:15pm | 8West 2.1
Biofuels - The next generation
Dr Steve Martin, Research Director at TMO Renewables - GULP
Wednesday 20 October 2010
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
John Henry Newman and Liberal Education
- a challenge to some contemporary trends?
Dr Mervyn Davies, Sarum College
- IMECHE
Thursday 21 October 2010
7pm for 7.30pm 5W 2.1
University public lecture in association with Institute of Mechanical Engineers
Electric Vehicles from TATA
Nick Fell, Vice-President, Engineering
TATA Motors European Technical Centre
- GULP
Wednesday 27 October 2010
5.15pm 8 West 1.1
Images of Ophelia
Dr Allan Phillipson
- GULP
Wednesday 3 November 2010
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
The gardens at Mount Stewart
Alan Power
- GULP
Wednesday 10 November 2010
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
A jobbing scientist's random walk
Dr Michael Brooke
- InauguralWednesday 10 November 2010
6.15pm 5W 2.3
Monetary policy and the financial crisis
Professor Chris Martin, Department of Economics
Free tickets: 01225 383799 or S.A.U.Rose@bath.ac.uk
- HERSCHEL Thursday 11 November 2010
7.00pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Our place in the Universe
Professor John D Barrow, Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University - Millennium
Wednesday 17 November 2010
4:15pm | 3WN2.1
Life in the Twilight Zone - a look at form and adaptation in deep-sea fishes
James Maclaine, Curator of the Zoology Department at the Natural History Museum - GULP
Wednesday 17 November 2010
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
'A raw head and bloody bones': the origins of Gothic literature
Professor William Hughes, Bath Spa University - ICIAWednesday
17 November 2010
7-8pm ICIA Art Space 2, 3WN 2.1
Ruth Maclennan & Professor Vic Seidler in Conversation
Artist Ruth Maclennan discusses her work with Vic Seidler, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London - CIAWednesday
1 December 2010
7-8pm ICIA Art Space 1
Bobby Baker, Bas Verplanken & Simone Lewis in conversation
Performance artist Bobby Baker talks about her work with Professor Bas Verplanken, Head of Department, Psychology & Simone Lewis, Sports Science Support Manager, Team Bath - RESEARCH
Tuesday 7 December 2010
6:15pm | 5 West 2.4
Kew in the digital age
Angela McFarlane, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Millennium
Wednesday 8 December 2010
4:15pm | 3WN2.1
Meteorites and the origins of life on earth. Interstellar trash or treasure?
Dr Terence Kee, Department of Chemistry, University of Leeds - CDASFriday
10 December 2010
10.15am-1pm 3 East 2.20
The dead body and its disposal
Kate Woodthorpe, John Troyer, Brian Parsons - Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath
Book a place: cdas@bath.ac.uk
- Millennium
Wednesday 9 February 2011
4.15pm | 3 West North 2.1
Exploring the dark universe
Dr Alex Murphy, Nuclear & Particle Astrophysics, University of Edinburgh
- GULP
Wednesday 9 February 2011
5.15pm | 8 West 1.1
In association with the Royal Geographic Society
The heart of the great alone
David Hempleman-Adams, explorer
- ICIAWednesday
9 February 2011
7pm | ICIA Art Space 2, University of Bath
Class wargames (Artists' talk and participatory performance)
Members in conversation: Dr Richard Barbrook, University of Westminster and author; Ilze Black, Queen Mary University, London and artist; Alex Veness, University of the Arts, London and artist; Rod Dickinson, University of the West of England and artist; Chair: Dr Daniel Hinchcliffe, ICIA
- Millennium
Wednesday 16 February 2011
4.15pm | 3 West North 2.1
Science in drug politics: From current oxymoron to future principle
Professor David Nutt, Neuropsychopharmacology, Imperial College London - GULP
Wednesday 16 February 2011
5.15pm | 8 West 1.1
In association with the Chaplaincy
Imagining our way to the future of the planet
Martin Palmer, Head of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC), theologian, author, broadcaster and environmentalist
- CHAPLAINCY
Monday 21 February 2011
6.30pm | 3 East 2.1
What happens when we die?
Rabbi Moshe Baron – Jewish University Chaplain for Bristol and the South West;
Rashad Azami – Imam of the Bath Islamic Centre;
Professor Gavin D’Costa – Professor in Catholic Theology, University of Bristol
- GULP
Wednesday 23 February 2011
5.15pm | Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
The prehistory of Bathampton Down - Bath's sacred landscape
Dr Rod Thomas, MA MD FRCP
- Millennium
Thursday 24 February 2011
4.15pm | 3WN 2.1
Mysterious cases of misbehaving molecules!
Professor Chick Wilson, Department of Chemistry, University of Bath
- BATH LIT
Friday 25 February 2011
1pm | Carpenter House
Birds & bees - threats & survival
Professor Tamas Szekely, University of Bath (birds) & Dr Edward Feil, University of Bath (bees)
Tickets: p.m.mcgrane@bath.ac.uk - GULP
Wednesday 2 March 2011
5.15pm | 8 West 1.1
Do we need emotional robots?
Dr Joanna Bryson, University of Bath - SHOWCASEThursday 3 March 2011
2.15pm | 4 East 3.10
The Paralympics legacy - research in disability sport & exercise
Dr James Bilzon, Simone Lewis and Dr Polly McGuigan, University of Bath
Tickets: p.m.mcgrane@bath.ac.uk - BATH LIT
Friday 4 March 2011
2.15pm | 6 West South
Them and us: Changing Britain - Why we need a fair society
Will Hutton, writer and columnist
Tickets: p.m.mcgrane@bath.ac.uk - CDAS
Friday 4 March 2011
2.15pm | 3 East 2.20
Dying/end of life
Family experiences of the Intensive Care Unit Paula Smith, Department of Psychology, UoB
Caring for a dying family member in the Republic of Moldova Allan Kellehear, Department of Social & Policy Sciences, UoB
Mediated dying: representations of Jade Goody's death in tabloids & magazines Daniel Ashton & Rebecca Feasey, Department of Film & Media Production, Bath Spa University
Does the internet affect the way we die? Tony Walter, Department of Social & Policy Sciences, UoB
Book a place: cdas@bath.ac.uk - GULP
Wednesday 9 March 2011
5.15pm | 8 West 1.1
The tale of the tulip
Russell Bowes - GULP
Wednesday 16 March 2011
5.15pm | 8 West 1.1
Europe's great witch hunt
Professor Ronald Hutton, University of Bristol - BATH TAPSWednesday
16 March 2011
7pm | University Hall
Stand up mathematician
Matt Parker - ICIAWednesday
16 March 2011
7.30pm | ICIA Art Space 2, University of Bath
Tom Marshman & Deborah Aguirre Jones in conversation
Tom Marshman & Deborah Aguirre - GULP
Wednesday 23 March 2011
5.15pm | Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Brunel - a man of vision
Reginald Palk, STEAM Swindon - FOUNDERSThursday 31 March 2011
5.30pm | East Lecture Theatre
Great ideas of biology
Sir Paul Nurse, British geneticist
Tickets: G.Gillespie@bath.ac.uk - RESEARCH
Wednesday 5 April 2011
6.15pm | 5W 2.3
Creative tensions between science & technology
Professor Sir Richard Friend, Cambridge University
Tickets: G.Gillespie@bath.ac.uk - Inaugural
Wednesday 6 April 2011
6.15pm | 3 West North 2.1
Title - TBC
Professor Chick Wilson, Department of Chemistry - ICIAWednesday
6 April 2011
7pm | ICIA Art Space 1, University of Bath
Artist's talk
Janek Schaefer
- Foreign Languages
Friday 8 April 2011
7pm | University of Bath
Cultural awareness evening
Isabella Stefanutti
Tickets: flc@bath.ac.uk or call 01225 383991 - Inaugural
Tuesday 12 April 2011
6.15pm | University of Bath
Losing the plot in the era of image: When a picture tells more than a thousand words
Professor Yiannis Gabriel, School of Management - CDASFriday
13 May 2011
10.15am | 3 East 2.20
Mourning & memory
Christine Valentine - How British and Japanese mourners materialise loss: a narrative analysis;
Chris Daniell - Memorial benches;
Ann Malamah-Thomas - Representing national loss: Israeli & Palestinian modern visual arts
- GULP
Wednesday 18 May 2011
5.15pm | 8W 3.22
Rutherford's Legacy: From the Nucleus to Superstrings
Dr Glenn Patrick, Particle Physicist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory - Inaugural
Wednesday 18 May 2011
6.15pm | 3WN2.1
Crystals, particles and powders
Professor Rob Price, Department of Chemistry
Tickets: fs-admin@bath.ac.uk or 01225 383647 - Gerald WaltersWednesday 18 May 2011
6.15pm | 5 West 2.4
Civilisation: Who decides? - Heritage and the fabrication of history
Dr Simon Thurley, Chief Executive, English Heritage
Tickets: G.Gillespie@bath.ac.uk
- GULP
Wednesday 1 June 2011
5.15pm | 8W 3.22
The Holburne Reborn
Dr Alexander Sturgis, Director of the Holburne Museum - Bath Ventures
Wednesday 15 June 2011
12.00 pm | East Building Lecture Theatre
The Entrepreneurial Academic
Doug Richard, Entrepreneur & Dragon's Den Star - GULP
Wednesday 15 June 2011
5.15pm | 8W 1.1
Red Heat in the Cold War: how US policy in the Caribbean nearly caused the end of the world
Alex von Tunzelmann's, Writer & Columnist - Inaugural
Wednesday 15 June 2011
6.15pm | 8 West 3.22
Monte Carlo or bust: Smart simulation for serious science
Professor Nigel Wilding, Department of Physics
Tickets: fs-admin@bath.ac.uk or 01225 383647 - Inaugural
Thursday 30 June 2011
6.15pm | 5W 2.1
Drinking, music, having fun and stuff: The importance of identity and belonging in young people's lives
Professor Christine Griffin, Department of Psychology
Tickets: C.A.Ransford@bath.ac.uk or 01225 383843