Open lectures: Summer term 2021
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Learn to sing the oldest song in English, in a guided historical ‘imagining’
Artists and activists will discuss the role art has played in keeping civic spaces open in the pandemic.
Discover how small portable objects enabled biblical sites to be relocated in Early Medieval Europe.
Join us in this masterclass as Chidubem Nwafubo discusses how businesses in Yorkshire are using the circular economy to deal with climate related and environmental issues.
In this lecture, Orietta Da Rold will consider the critical knowledge of paper, tell some of the hidden stories of this material, branching out to how the idea of paper in the medieval period shaped modernity.
There has never been a more important time in our lives to prioritise learning skills and abilities which help us to face the future, join us as Dr Glenda Rivoallan discusses this and more
The Departments of Philosophy and Physics at the University of York proudly present their Annual Royal Institute of Philosophy / Institute of Physics Public Lecture on the Philosophy of Physics
An expert panel discuss digital exclusion for people with severe mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic
Professor Derek Attridge explores the achievements of Afrikaans literary writing since the end of apartheid, and broadens the discussion to consider the issue of minor languages in the context of world literature.
Dr Lucy Selman presents findings from current research into grief and bereavement during the pandemic.
The circular economy has transformed from a resource management strategy into a worldwide concept, join us in this Masterclass as Pauline Deutz looks at the expectations, social benefits and the environmental gains.
This lecture focuses on the philosophical and architectural entailments of the classical science of optics of the Arab polymath Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham; b. ca 965 CE in Basra, d. ca. 1040 CE in Cairo).
Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst as well as one of the most influential essayists and thinkers writing today.
Experts discuss the limits to urban revolution in Turkey
Internationally renowned human rights defender and lawyer Azza Soliman will discuss the current state of civil society in Egypt.
Professor Gordon Campbell draws on the final twenty lines of Milton’s ‘Il Penseroso’ to discuss the 'garden hermit'
Join Professor Stephen Perkins in this Masterclass presentation as he explores the issues surrounding top salaries
Accomplished researchers from three UKRI Mental Health Networks come together to impart what they have learnt about loneliness in the UK during the pandemic based on their latest, separate studies.
An introduction to the Continuing Bonds model of grief.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been postponed until October 2021.
Find out about the history, design, delivery and future of York Guildhall from a client, design team, contractor and future occupier perspective
Join us on a trip of scientific discovery with an application scientist through the medium of circus!
Douglas Davies presents a discussion of ‘death cleaning’ and ‘life’ clearing’ as issues of minimal versus maximal ‘stuff’ as we sort things out in anticipation of our own death
Tom Goodfellow and David Jackman discuss the crucial rule of capital cities in the production of dominance and the politics of maintaining it.
Join Fatima Manji, award-winning broadcaster and journalist who anchors the UK's Channel 4 News, and discover the exciting opportunities and challenges of the world behind our nightly news.
In the first of an annual series of lectures on current issues in law and commerce, Professor Steven L Schwarz discusses the challenge of regulating global stablecoins.
Dr Edith Steffen presents the latest in the 'Grief: A Study of Human Emotional Experience' series of lectures
Diane Coyle, an expert on the digital economy, will explore why digital technology is rewiring the economy - especially now so much activity has been driven online and what economists are learning about its consequences
Do Jesus's teachings add up to a coherent moral system, still relevant today?
This lecture offers living examples from Scotland of combining human rights leadership at local, national and international levels.
Does virtual reality involve illusory or hallucinatory experience of things that are not present, or does it involve veridical experience of virtual objects?
Free and exclusive documentary screening followed by a panel Q&A with director Dan Laughton and Heroic Hearts UK
Join Gavin Esler as he discusses his new book; a book about history, but also about the strange, complicated identity of Britishness.
Join the York Politics Society as they discuss the continued injustices the BAME community face following the US Presidential election and change in leadership
Join Tracy Walters in this Masterclass presentation as she explains how we can build both personal and organisational resilience
Find out more about the sounds a 3,000 year-old mummy would have made and compare them to today's sounds
The Resources and Waste Strategy for England will require all English local authorities to collect food waste separately by 2023...
Tom Plowman talks about one of the more recent systems that Labman have produced, in a record turnaround of 4 weeks - the Rapid Sample Reformatter