Open lectures: Semester 2 - 2024-25
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Riley Miladi explores artist-centric machine learning tools, balancing innovation and creativity in production at CoSTAR Live Lab’s public talk.
James Fearnley, after 35 years studying propolis, launches BeeArc to address humanity's crises through deeper understanding of bees and nature.
This talk by Dr. Li will focus on land degradation in drylands, and the ecological impacts of large-scale ecological projects in China’s drylands.
A public talk exploring Digital UX in Arts and Cultural events from the perspective of people with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism.
Join us for an evening of poetic celebration with performances from Jason Allen-Paisant, Anthony V. Capildeo and Maya Caspari. Optional Dress Code: Bling up the North.
How do we keep the creative spark alive, nurture a love of writing in children, or regain that love as adults?
Zahra Montazeri, a computer graphics researcher, presents her latest work on realistic cloth rendering and geometry simplification.
This webinar presents findings on UK police responses to county lines, highlighting inconsistent safeguarding and calling for national guidance.
The seminar explores how EU accession reshapes environmental governance, highlighting legal reforms, sustainability, and Serbia’s regional integration challenges.
This seminar explores how generational and cultural factors influence Right to Repair perceptions, practices, and participation in Türkiye and the UK.
This lecture explores how bacteria and viruses evolve, shaping social life through water infrastructures, disease spread, antimicrobial resistance, diet, and pollution.
Discover how Sri Lanka’s ancient tank systems offer nature-based solutions for climate resilience, livelihoods, and sustainable water management.
CoSTAR Live Lab is excited to welcome Dr Phil Coleman for an exciting public talk exploring the innovative L-ISA technology by L-Acoustics.
Objects reveal rich histories through their materials, crafting, and use, offering insights into past lives, beliefs, and interactions.
This lecture provides a unique opportunity to hear from a senior diplomat from Indonesia - the world's 3rd largest democracy, 4th most populous country, and 10th largest economy.
Designing Futures explores interdisciplinary collaboration in design education, uniting STEM, humanities, and industry through talks, discussions, and a lunch reception.
Join us for an event which connects sustainability researchers and practitioners to explore future built environments through discussions, partnerships, and thematic sessions.
Curtis Chin’s memoir explores growing up Chinese American in 1980s Detroit, his family’s restaurant, and his journey as a writer.
Curators Tracey Bashkoff and Dr. Vivien Greene discuss the Guggenheim’s Orphism exhibition, exploring its themes, origins, and artistic impact.
In collaboration with Comma Press, the EUTERPE project is honoured to present a panel on Palestinian British voices.
This presentation reinterprets secularization, showing how modern cultural systems function as secular substitutes for religious meaning frameworks.
A poetic performance-lecture exploring language, feeling, and vulnerability—where words meander, evoke, and create meaning beyond the literal.
Join the EUTERPE Spring School opening evening exploring multilingual translation, with talks and readings.
This webinar explores the BIG Argument, its development, and role in supporting scalable AI safety across sectors and methodologies.
A delve into the research featured in Channel 4's 'Swiped' documentary and the links between sleep and mental health.
This talk explores how psychedelics support trauma healing by reshaping social roles, perceptions, and rituals beyond medical frameworks.
This lecture explores children's protest history, their rights to peaceful assembly, and how cities can support youth activism safely.
Coinciding with the publication of T.J. Clark’s Those Passions: On Art and Politics (Thames & Hudson, 2025), Adam Phillips and Clark will be in conversation about art, politics, and psychoanalysis.
Dr Lucy Martin explores feminist crisis responses to global permacrisis, highlighting research on effective, equitable, and joyful solutions.
Join Writers at York for a Water Poetics reading with Dr. Briony Hughes, featuring poetry, discussion on hydropoetics, and a water-writing demonstration.
This lecture explores how two Renaissance English writers used Italian culture to justify England’s conquest of Ireland in the late 1500s.
Come join York's Drug Science Society for a public lecture on art, altered states, and the therapeutic potential of creativity with the phenomenal multi-media artist Harry Pack!
Professor Marion Turner explores late-medieval views on fiction, its relationship to poetry, rhetoric, and ethics, focusing on Chaucer and reader emotions.
Sir Paul Nurse in conversation with The Times Science Editor, Tom Whipple
This webinar explores the global impact of reduced aid under Trump, featuring expert insights on development and humanitarian consequences.
Dr. Humpston explores hallucinations as perceptual convictions, challenging sensory definitions and examining links to selfhood, psychosis, and psychedelics.
While the popularity of the ‘Chocolate Orange’ has made Terry’s a famous name, it is not widely known that the firm’s origins go back to a York apothecary business opened in 1767.
Philosopher Doreen Fraser explores explanations for mathematics' success in science, questioning whether it has a rational basis or remains mysterious.
Join Dr James Cubiss to explore how precision laser systems can be used in nuclear physics research.
Are bookstagram, booktok, and booktube worth it? Has it changed the way we interact with books and reading?
Join a lecture and workshop on co-creation in sustainability with Professor van Zeijl-Rozema, exploring theory, practices, and academic development.
Find out about the scientific goals, design, and experimental setup of the Electron-Ion Collider, an advanced accelerator.
A public talk by Kit Monkman (Viridian FX) about recent collaborative work with Phoenix Dance Theatre.
This event explores the literary canon's ideological history, its role in literary study, and the melancholy of canonicity through Micromodernism.
Dr. Valery Radchenko will discuss how medical radionuclides are designed and made in order to advance medical imaging and targeted cancer treatment.
This talk explores how music streaming platforms reshape global music production, distribution, and consumption, highlighting power, inequality, and cultural impacts.
Sociologist, Dr Samuel Burgum, presents an alternative account of the real lives of London's squatters: their ambitions and struggles.
Lois Shearing explores how far-right movements recruit women online, exposing their roles, misogyny, and strategies to counter radicalisation.
Rebecca Buxton talks about how women in philosophy initiatives promote inclusion but may hinder lasting integration by focusing too much on gender identity.
Join Alistair Boxall for a lecture on chemical pollution in Yorkshire’s rivers, its impact on wildlife, and practical steps to reduce contamination.
By harnessing the process that powers the Sun and stars, fusion has the potential to provide a safe, abundant source of low carbon energy. The first of its kind, STEP is a programme that includes building a prototype fusion powerplant in the UK.
Join the York Drug Science Society at the University of York for a free public lecture on psychedelic experiences with biologist and author Dr Rupert Sheldrake.
Explore how we're discovering the origins of the elements that make up our world by recreating stellar reactions in the lab.
Find out more about sustainable careers: part of International Women's Day.
A public talk by Florian Block (dock10 and University of York) about AI innovation in live virtual production.
Historian Sarah Lonsdale explores five women’s inspiring efforts to reclaim and protect the wild, challenging societal norms worldwide.
Join Dr Christian Diget to explore how atomic nuclei are made, from astrophysical processes to cutting-edge experiments. Journey through the nuclear chart, to discover the properties of the building blocks of our universe.
Join University of York researchers from the Departments of Psychology and Sociology as they discuss the psychology of eating - or choosing not to eat - meat and meat-based substitutes.
Dr Stuart Higgins will introduce some of the core ideas around biomedical engineering, and discuss some of the active research being carried out at the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology.
Join York's Drug Science Society as Dr Simon Erridge prodives a comprehensive overview of the current UK medical cannabis landscape.
This talk explores Britain-India relations (late Victorian-Edwardian) through art and music, highlighting empire grandeur, colonial fantasies, and anti-imperial critiques.
Join the Department of English and Related Literature for the second in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, writer and psychoanalyst.
How do institutional gender regimes affect formal reporting processes for sexual harassment?
Queer as Folklore is an exhilarating journey across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy.
Join the Centre for Medieval Studies for a talk that explores how early Islamic garrison cities and palatial projects stimulated innovation in the art, architecture, and craft sectors.
Humans have long been designing and constructing robots, but could a robot create other robots to cope with unfamiliar environments? Join Dr Edgar Buchanan Beruman to explore the exciting Autonomous Robot Evolution project.
Fashion and cartography, rooted in practical geometry, shaped national identities and shared overlapping influences, explored through Dior’s legacy.
Dr Rob Harvey, Head of Production Systems at Rolls-Royce SMR Ltd will describe this vision to provide clean, affordable energy for all.