YorNight
Talks
YorNight will host a variety of engaging talks on a broad range of topics. Join us on 25 September and discover the amazing research happening all around us!
King's Manor KG/07
| 5.45pm - 6.30pm | It Lives… Will We? The Robots are Already Here! | Colin Williams |
| 6.40pm - 7.00pm | Tropical Forest Conservation, Exploration, And a Tree With No Name | Andy Marshall |
| 7.10pm - 7.30pm | The Accidental War on Nature | |
| 7.40pm - 8.00pm | Understanding Daydreams | Jonathan Smallwood |
| 8.10pm - 8.30pm | The Mystery of Dreaming |
Tom Stoneham |
*You can find King's Manor on the map. Please note, KG/07 is NOT wheelchair accessible.
King's Manor K/159
| 5.45pm – 6.05pm | Agriculture History in the French Alps | Charline Giguet-Covex |
| 6.10pm - 6.30pm | Hearing the Past: St Mary's Abbey Reconstructed | Ambrose Field, Thomas Krauss, Amelia Gully, Helena Daffern |
| 6.40pm - 7.00pm | Soundtracking Your World | Liam Maloney |
| 7.10pm - 7.30pm | Can You Handle the Truth? | Victoria Carpenter |
| 7:40pm - 8:00pm | FIFA World Cup 1966: Planning for Success | Alex Gillett, Kevin Tennent |
| 8:10pm - 8.30pm | Life in the European Union | Charlotte Burns, Paul Tobin |
*You can find King's Manor on the map. Please note, K/159 is NOT wheelchair accessible.
King's Manor K/133
| 6.15pm-7.15pm | To Infinity and Beyond... | Katherine Leech |
| 7.30pm - 8.30pm | Astronomy is Looking Up! | Emily Brunsden |
*You can find King's Manor on the map. Please note, K/133 is NOT wheelchair accessible.
York Medical Society
| 5.00pm - 5.20pm | Killing Cancer with Cold Plasma | Adam Hirst |
| 5.20pm - 5.40pm | From Black Pudding to Transfusions; The Weird and Wonderful World of Blood | Ian Hitchcock |
| 5.40pm - 6.00pm | Can We Use Antiepileptic Drugs to Treat Cancer? | Will Brackenbury |
| 6.00pm - 6.30pm | Interval with Wine and Soft Drinks | |
| 6.30pm - 6.50pm | Fixing the Brain in 'Lazy Eye' | Daniel Baker |
| 6.50pm - 7.10pm | Creating a Healing Campus: Challenging the Perceptions of Mental Illness | Nick Rowe |
| 7.10pm-7.30pm |
Interval with Wine and Soft Drinks |
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| 7.30pm-7.50pm | Robert Howlett | |
| 7.50pm-8.10pm | How to Win the Antimicrobial Resistance Arms Race |
Maggie Smith |
| 8.10pm-8.30pm | Incentivising the Pharma Industry To Develop Drugs That Do More Good Than Harm |
Mark Sculpher |
*You can find York Medical Society on the map. Please note, York Medical Society IS accessible through the garden.
York Explore
| 6.30pm-7.15pm |
From Fact to Fiction: Medieval Archives and Historical Fiction Writing |
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| 7.30pm- 8.30pm |
*You can find York Explore on the map. York Explore IS wheelchair accessible.
Barley Hall
| 5.30pm-5.50pm | Boomtown Rats: Ancient Rodent Bones from York as Markers of Urbanisation | Dr David Orton, University of York |
| 6.00pm – 6.20pm | Unearthing Industrial York | Rachel Cubitt, York Archaeological Trust |
| 6.30pm – 6.50pm | Apocalypse Now: Preserving a Medieval Master-piece | Sarah Brown, University of York |
| 7.00pm – 7.20pm | Laugh with Us: A Cabaret from a Concentration Camp | Dr Lisa Peschel, University of York |
| 7.20pm – 7.40pm | Yiddish Cabaret from the Rediscovered Finnish-Jewish Archives | Dr Simo Muir, University of Leeds |
| 7.40pm – 8.00pm | From Russia to the Cape of Good Hope: Jewish music bypassing the Holocaust | Dr Stephen Muir, University of Leeds |
*You can find Barley Hall on the map. Barley Hall IS wheelchair accessible.