Open lectures: Summer term 2023

Participants will be given opportunities for discussion and feedback under a range of topics broadly related to security, politics, development, and sustainability in the LCB&S region of Africa.

Since the late eighteenth century, parasols were a common dress accessory. They are now a curiosity of history. Have you ever held a Victorian parasol? Here is your chance!

This lecture dives into the concept of "truth", as it's being deployed or contested when it comes to exposing human rights abuses in Greece.

Celebrating the Launch of the School of Arts and Creative Technologies

Summer term's lecture with psychoanalyst Adam Phillips

Drop by to see the students' creations and find out more about digital creativity!

By situating Erasmus's nose in the context of humanist metaphors that invoke the nasus, sniffing and wiping, a playful pictorial game is revealed: one which treats wittily of acumen, character and style.

Failures to protect vulnerable people have become a normalised feature of politics during Covid-19. Dr Kate Brown explores the impact of vulnerability politics and its potential to deepen exclusions and injustices faced by the most vulnerable.

Find out how digital power supply tech is delivering faster journeys, more capacity and improved reliability with less cost, and risk!

Rick Anthony Furtak demonstrates the dynamics of grief, analyzed by Proust in the most intimate detail.

Embark on a captivating journey where science and fiction converge. From teleportation to faster than light travel. Let your curiosity soar!

Join us in conversation Amish Tripathi, as he discusses his journey from banker to author of the fastest-selling book series in Indian publishing history. 

Is single-session treatment is just as effective as multi-session therapy in treating phobias in children? Find out, with Lina Gega from the Institute for Mental Health at York.

Sayan Chattopadhyay explains Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's concept of singularity as the repeating of differences. This idea challenges the convention of a single person speaking about themselves in their life story.

In this lecture Jennifer Richards will be asking: what kind of women did Thomas Nashe know, from the wives of patrons to working women, and what might he have learned from them?

Learn about the resilience model with Dr Karisha Kimone George, who shares key advice on how to find meaning in the stressful ‘valleys’ of life.

Join UFBA and IGDC for a film screening on audiovisual community collaborations in Bahia, Brazil.

The Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre and the Instituto de Saúde Coletiva celebrate their global health research partnership.

The University of York's first art curator, Helena Cox, explores the range and depth of the University's art collection and how it can be used to benefit teaching, research, and public engagement.

Join Dr Alexandra Pike and Dr Melanie Forster for an illuminating discussion on the many faces of anxiety and how to recognise when this normal human emotion starts to become a problem.

Professor Mariana López’s inaugural lecture will explore her research on sound design and acoustics, while intertwining it with matters of diversity, equality, and her own position as a woman, a Latin American and an immigrant in academia.

This talk discusses historical maintenance and conservation practices of objects, including art, and their philosophical significance through a set of maintenance instructions from an early sixteenth-century English bishop.

Our broken economic model drives inequality and disempowerment, lining the pockets of corporations while extracting wealth from local communities. How can we reverse this?

Will 2023 be the year in which historic responsibility for climate change is finally acknowledged by the world’s major polluting nations?

Our lives have gone digital, making it hard to participate in society without an email and phone. This session will explore which digital rights are essential and discuss new laws' impact on our rights.

Alistair Boxall explains how knowledge of pollutants is being used to assess and manage chemical risks and suggest ways in which the public can help clean up the rivers in York.

Professor Cristelle Baskins (Tufts University) is giving a lecture on the Goletta of Tunis, and its Hafsid residents.

Global food production is inadequate due to climate change, pandemics, and war. By 2050, there will be a 50% deficit in protein supply. Can the Black Soldier Fly and agricultural waste be used to bridge this gap sustainably?

Gerd Oberleitner discusses what York can learn from the European and global networks of human rights cities.