YorkTalks 2015

YorkTalks was inaugurated as part of the University’s 50^th anniversary year with the University's Anniversary Professors presenting their research as part of a day-long event. YorkTalks is designed to encourage inter-disciplinary interactions by bringing together academic speakers from different disciplines in each session and is purposefully styled to emulate the best of TED style talks.

Each session is ticketed separately to encourage audiences to attend as much of the day as they can.  The History of Art Department's Michael White will be speaking at the first session:

Programme for Session One:

8.45am - Coffee

9.10am - Welcome and Introduction
Professor Koen Lamberts, Vice-Chancellor

9.15am - Launching the University of York Research Strategy
Professor Deborah Smith, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research

9.45am - Session One talks

• Professor Andrew Street - Realising Florence Nightingale’s vision
• Professor Michael White - The avant garde and the everyday
• Dr Mark Roodhouse - Uncovering the London underworld
• Professor Kate Pickett - The enemy between us: how inequality harms us all

See the full programme for the day.