The Beatles, Shakespeare’s desk and the purpose of prisons in University summer public lectures
Posted on 30 April 2007
Professor Colin Campbell, of the University’s Department of Sociology, will consider the contribution the Beatles made to the ‘youth movement’ or ‘cultural revolution’ of the 1960s and the extent to which their cultural legacy still influences the world today.The Dixon Lecture will be given by Professor Richard Blundell CBE, from University College London on Making work pay: designing tax and welfare policy for low income families. The Patrides Lecture, Shakespeare’s Desk, will be given by Professor Peter Stallybrass, from the University of Pennsylvania.
The Department of Archaeology will host an afternoon of five lectures by five of its professors in June on the theme Archaeology and the future: research at York in the 21st century. Topics include archaeology above and below the sea, narrative and landscape archaeology, and digital archaeology.
A lecture by the Director-General of the Prison Service, Phil Wheatley will examine the major challenges facing the UK’s justice system and ask What are prisons for?.
Technological developments that have changed the way we live will feature in a series of lectures hosted by the Department of Electronics. The series will examine the way musical inventions have changed music composition, recording and performance over the past 100 years, behind the scenes in film and television and the history and operation of the Internet.
Academics from the University of Manchester and the Wellcome Trust will give the York Biology Lectures, speaking on Brown fat, brain damage and being a woman in science and Genes, identity and health.
Other highlights will include the 2007 Leverhulme Lecture by Professor Mark A Cohen from the Vanderbilt University, USA on How much are we prepared to pay for crime control?. There will also be a reading by Scottish poet and playwright, Liz Lochhead as part of the Writers at York series.
There will be a Practical Ethics lecture again this term given by Celia Deanne-Drummond from the University of Chester, on Seeking wisdom as virtue for an ethics of genetics.
Notes to editors:
- All the Electronics lectures will take place at 7pm in P/L001, Physics:
- Tuesday 8 May - Dr Andy Hunt, ‘Electronics and music’
- Tuesday 15 May - John Mateer, ‘Electronics and the moving image’
- Tuesday 22 May - Dr Dave Pearce, ‘Electronics and the Internet’
- Wednesday 9 May at 5.30pm - The Dixon lecture, room P/X001, Physics
- All York Biology Lectures take
place at 12.15pm in room KO/18, Biology:
- Wednesday 16 May - Professor Nancy Rothwell, University of Manchester, ‘Brown fat, brain damage and being a woman in science’
- Wednesday 23 May - Professor Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust, ‘Genes, identity and health’
- Thursday 17 May at 5.15pm - The Patrides Lecture, in V/045, Vanbrugh College
- Tuesday 22 May at 5.30pm - The reading by Liz Lochhead, room V/045, Vanbrugh College
- Friday 25 May at 6.30pm - The Practical Ethics lecture, room P/L002 Physics
- The Beatles lectures will take place at
6.15pm in room P/L001, Physics:
- Tuesday 5 June - ‘I thought I knew you, but what did I know?’ The Beatles 1960-1966
- Tuesday 12 June - ‘Now you know who you are, what do you want to be?; The Beatles 1967-1970
- Tuesday 19 June - ‘Well you know, we all want to change the world’, The Beatles: the legacy
- Wednesday 6 June - The Archaeology inaugural event
will be held,
starting at 2pm in the Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum, York:
- Professor Geoff Bailey, ‘In the long run: Archaeology above and below the sea’
- Professor Terry O’Connor, ‘My species and other animals’
- Professor Matthew Collins, ‘What remains to be discovered’
- Professor Mark Edmonds, ‘Other ways of telling: Narrative and Landscape Archaeology’
- Professor Julian D Richards, ‘Bits and bytes: Digital Archaeology’
- Thursday 14 June at 6.30pm - Phil Wheatley, Director General of the Prison Service, room P/L001, Physics.
- Thursday 21 June at 5.30pm - The Leverhulme Lecture, room P/L001, Physics
- All lectures are free and open to the public. For details on venues and times, please visit the public lectures website or contact the Communications Office.