Open Lectures in week 3

Posted on 10 October 2016

Find out something new at our free Open Lectures - everyone welcome.

Story-telling in the Great Mongol Shahnama
Thursday 13 October, 6.00pm
Speaker: Professor Robert Hillenbrand, University of St Andrews

York Islamic Art Circle
The launch event for the York Islamic Art Circle, Storytelling in the Great Mongol Shahnama, will see Professor Robert Hillenbrand, author of ten books on Islamic architecture and painting, speak on the Shahnama – the national epic of Iran.

Moral illusions: What are they and why should we care?
Tuesday 11 October 2016, 7.00pm

Antibiotics and resistance and you
Wednesday 12 October 2016, 1.00pm

Universities, Democracy and Public Sociology; The Challenge of the Neo-Liberal Knowledge Regime
Wednesday 12 October 2016, 4.00pm

Conversion and convergence: The Goddess Mazu and the Virgin Mary in global maritime history
Wednesday 12 October 2016, 6.30pm

Challenging stereotypes of ‘science’ and ‘belief’: STEM as cultural identity in a pluralist world?
Thursday 13 October 2016, 6.00pm

Penthouse and Pavement: Inequality in the 21st Century
Thursday 13 October 2016, 6.30pm

The beauty of ruins
Thursday 13 October 2016, 6.30pm