Open lectures: Summer term 2019

Improving mental health for everyone around the world is one of the most pressing concerns in global public health today...

A lead-up event to York Walls Festival 2019, taking place in August. By Barry Crump of the University of York's Centre for Lifelong Learning

Come along to this free talk and explore some of Twelfth Night's textual detail, and its history in print and performance with Professor Helen Smith

Come along to this free talk and explore some of The Tempest's strangeness and some of its wonder through looking at its textual detail with Professor Judith Buchanan

Why does Hamlet have such an extraordinary hold on our cultural imagination?

Peter Robinson reads from The Constitutionals: A Fiction (2019) and discusses the praxis of adaptation.

In the early sixteenth century, the eve of May Day was conventionally a night of revelry for artisans and labourers in the City of London. In 1517, the early summer celebrations turned to violence...

This lecture explores how and why it could be that masculinities based on violence and personal status proved so resilient as new forms of public politics became established in the thirteenth and fourteenth century

Henry V is a rousing play fully of memorable and stirring lines. But it is not simply a play that celebrates war and heroics in war: it is also a play that questions war and the right conduct of war

Although literature can be seen as another cultural product competing for ideological supremacy, ultimately it is the beauty of literary language which provides pleasure and allows us to meditate on our particular 21st century human experience

Did Adam and Eve experience sexual pleasure, and if so how much?

The Department of Politics host LSE Professor, Christopher R Hughes

The Department of Education hold two inaugural lectures back-to-back

A drop in session where everyone is welcome to come and handle some of the Petyt collection including a coloured atlas, an early chronicle of the world, and the dissection of a rat - something for everyone!

Professor Heritage is one of the world’s most prominent conversation analysts, and a leading figure in the study of social interaction, in both ‘everyday’ life and institutional settings

The Annual Aylmer Lecture

Steve Roskams will present work undertaken by our first year undergraduates at the Roman fort at Malton

Romesh Gunesekera will be talking about how the fiction he writes relates to the turbulent world we live in focusing on the journey from his first book, Monkfish Moon, to his most recent book Noontide Toll.

This talk will examine the latex “skinnings” (Häutungen) of architectural spaces by the Swiss sculptor, Heidi Bucher (1926–1993)

Oliver Craig director of BioArCh talks on Feeding Stonehenge showing how biomolecular research is throwing open new windows on the the understanding of food, diet and cuisine in the past...

This lecture examines the phenomenology of Jackson Pollock's Mural, installed in 1943 in Peggy Guggenheim's townhouse in New York (and now in Iowa City), in light of several photographs of the work in process and in situ

This seminar draws together figures from medicine, academia, and cycling activism to discuss whether cycle helmets should be made compulsory

The last in this term's events from the York Islamic Art Circle

Professor Jessica Wolfe gives this year's Annual Patrides Lecture

Nicky Milner will present her discoveries at Star Carr and their implications for the European Mesolithic

Everything has its price - even the dead...

In this lecture Dr John Pasley will explore the basics of ICF and consider some of the key physics behind this approach to fusion

Dr Manuel Sánchez former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Mexico discusses Mexico's economics

Explore opportunities and challenges presented by digital services and technologies: how have our perceptions of public and private changed? What is the impact on our security and freedom?

How can we ensure that people in the distant future do not excavate hazardous waste that we are burying today, produced from military and civilian nuclear programs?

Jonathan will explore how making the Harewood House at the end of the eighteenth century removed the earlier medieval landscape and Gawthorpe Hall

Professor Phil Hubbard presents the second of this term's CURB seminars

Laura Ashe talks about The Squire of Low Degree - a very strange medieval romance

The guardian of English poetry, Shakespeare has given us a treasure trove of English to read—funny how so much of it doesn't make sense until it's spoken out-loud...

Erica Whyman discusses her recent RSC productions as well as her broader work

Jonathan Haskel presents the Ken Dixon lecture

John Guest, a retired British Airways training captain, talks about the Kegworth Boeing 737 crash (1989)

Stephanie Wynne-Jones will talk about Songo Mnara

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips returns for his Summer term open lecture.

Annika Jonsson examines how the loss of a significant other unravels through a process of materialisation

Dr David Jesson talks about the recent Government policy to recruit 'disadvantaged' pupils to Grammar schools

The third in this term's events from the York Islamic Art Circle

This lecture aims to further the case for the centrality of the question of demarcation to a critically confident philosophy of science and to argue for the value of incorporating ideology-critique into this field

From the creation of virtual sound environments to the impact of sound on our environment; through listening to the past to telling stories in new ways for next generation audiences – what might our future sound like?

Martin Carver with talk on the Anglo-Saxon Royal Burial Ground at Sutton Hoo where he has directed research since 1983

Find out how researchers at Stanford are treating diseases such as cancer, despite biological complexity being a formidable obstacle

Join us for a special Writers at York event, which showcases the explosion of talent in writing for young adults

David Duff analyses Wordsworth’s public self-fashioning as a French Revolutionary eyewitness

The second in this term's events from the Islamic Art Circle

We are living in times of widening, interrelated crises - why do so many of us choose to look away?

At the limits of pages, in page breaks and margins, it is possible to see some limits to studying 'material texts'...

Katherine Brookfield talks about ageing and the environment

This lecture will discuss how the popular perception of librarians and librarianship can affect today’s libraries, their users and their staff

Poet Maureen McLane reads from her latest book

Can changes in policy focus more on emotional intelligence and include value-based outcomes such as feeling loved, safe, and respected?

In this talk Dr Rachel Maunder will be talking about children’s peer relationships at school, and the role that both friendship and aggression play in the peer group

This talk looks as the British artists who travelled east in the nineteenth century

This talk aims to provide a comprehensive comparison of how the law of religious accommodations and exemptions has developed in Britain and the US