Queen Mary, University of London Summer Events

Queen Mary Events Summer 2011

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Introduction

Queen Mary, University of London is one of London and the UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions. Amongst the three largest of the colleges of the University of London, Queen Mary's 3,000 staff deliver world class degree programmes and research across a wide range of subjects in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Laws, in Medicine and Dentistry and in Science and Engineering.

Queen Mary's distinctiveness arises from its commitment to an engagement with international excellence in education and research and a twin commitment to bring that engagement to bear on its London and Thames Gateway environment.

We invite you to join the events programme described in this leaflet, through which Queen Mary leads academic and public debate on a wide range of issues.

For the latest information on all Queen Mary events, including up-to-date venue and booking information, please visit www.qmul.ac.uk/events

Produced by:

Events Office Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 5148/5147 email: events@qmul.ac.uk Further information is available online at www.qmul.ac.uk/events

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Humanities and Social Sciences Medicine and Dentistry Alumni Events Former Staff Association Campus map

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Humanities, Social Sciences and Laws

Since the end of the 1990s, the number of aid workers deliberately killed, injured or attacked has grown steadily.

Humanities and Social Sciences

27 May 2011, 5pm Self-organization, pedagogy and reproduction Janna Graham, University of Zagreb This event is part of a series, a mixture of workshops and discussions on self-organisation and non-hierarchical work practices, that aims to bring together practitioners and theorists of forms of organisation that eschew hierarchical modes of division of labour as part of a critique of the imposition of work and productivity for profit, to share working practices and address their problems, obstacles, successes, and aspirations. Previous events in the series include self-organisation and group ecologies, on internal ecologies, openness and closure,

affects and ghosts, habits and artifices, scale and scope; and selforganisation and the economy, from cooperatives to social enterprises, between state funding, self funding, alternative economies and charity dependence, authorship, redistribution of resources, production of value and coproduction; and self-organisation and community, on external dynamics, political discourse and outreach; the role of the organizer when working with constituencies; issues of politicization, involvement, negotiation. Recordings and materials are available here http://self-org.blogspot.com/.

Venue: Lock Keepers Cottage, Mile End Event contact: selforganising@gmail.com

31 May 2011, 6.30pm Inaugural Lecture Apparent Perfection: The Image of John F. Kennedy Mark White, Professor of History This lecture will consider how John F. Kennedy was able to develop what became one of the most powerful, seductive images of any modern political leader. The process by which an alluringly multi-faceted image of JFK was constructed during his lifetime - as erotic symbol, familial symbol, war hero, precocious politician, and man of letters -- will be examined.

How the 'Camelot' image of Kennedy evolved in American political culture after his assassination will also be explored.

Venue: Drapers Lecture Theatre, Geography Building, Mile End Event contact: events@qmul.ac.uk

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Humanities and Social Sciences (cont)

3 June 2011, 6.30pm The Jenny Cheshire Lectures in Sociolinguistics Articulating Sociohistorical Linguistics Ecologically: Lessons from European Colonial Expansion Salikok Mufwene, Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Adopting an emergentist approach to language evolution but focusing especially on the late wave of the Indo-European dispersal since the 15th century, I will show how changes undergone and caused by European colonial languages largely reflect changes in the socioeconomic structures experienced and initiated by the migrating populations. I will discuss the extent to which particular population structures in the colonies

qua contact settings are consequences of particular economic systems (the latter being largely determined by particular geographical ecologies), and how the notion of 'population structure', augmented with that of 'periodization', can help us account for the specific ways in which the relevant European languages evolved structurally. I will also argue that the same ecological factors invoked to explain the varying directions of structural changes can also help us account differentially for language vitality (which languages prevailed at the expense of which others where and when) in the colonies.

Venue: Drapers Lecture Theatre, Geography Building, Mile End Event contact: events@qmul.ac.uk

7 June 2011, All day Pushing Legal Knowledge Boundaries – Queen Mary PhD Conference The School of Law invites all law students across the UK to attend the conference, which is supported by the Department of Law and the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS). It is organised and chaired

by School of Law PhD students at Queen Mary, University of London.

The Conference is a unique opportunity for presenters and participants to exchange ideas and knowledge on contemporary legal issues.

The deadline for registration is 31 May 2011. For more information and to register please go to http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/events The fee for attending the conference is ÂŁ15. The fee includes the cost of attendance, refreshments, light lunch and evening drinks reception.

The schedule and the list of papers and topics presented will be confirmed in due course.

Venue: Charterhouse Square, Event contact: law-gradconference@qmul.ac.uk

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11 June 2011, 1.45pm Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies Dissenting Academies Online This event marks the public launch of Dissenting Academies Online, an innovative digital resource for the history of the dissenting academies and the first major outcome of the Dissenting Academies Project, a collaboration between the Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies and the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History. Registration is Please visit www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams for further information

Venue: Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AR Event contact: i.rivers@qmul.ac.uk

16 June - 21 July 11, All day Summer Schools, Certificate Program in Global Arbitration Law and Practice: National and Transborder Perspectives A joint venture of the Dispute Resolution Institute at Hamline University School of Law and Professor Thomas E. Carbonneau, Orlando Distinguished Professor of Law (Penn State Dickinson School of Law), a nationally and internationally recognized author and authority on arbitration, in cooperation with The School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary University of London For more information go to http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/events and follow the link for Hamline School of Law

Venue: CCLS, Lincoln Inn’s Fields

20 June – 2 July 2011, All day Center for Transatlantic Legal Studies and International Business Law Prepare yourself for international legal practice in one of the world’s most important and vibrant business and financial centers.

The Transatlantic Legal Studies and International Business Law Summer Program is a cooperation between Tulane Law School and the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary’s School of Law, University of London.

For more information go to http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/events and follow the link for Tulane Summer School

Venue: CCLS, Lincoln Inn’s Fields, London WC2A 3JB

Event contact: jfedtke@tulane.edu

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Humanities and Social Sciences (cont)

23 – 25 June 2011, 9am Joint Conference: Who were the Nuns? Project and HWRBI The conference brings together the work of ‘Who were the Nuns?’ project and presentations by members of the international network interested in the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland. Since September 2008, the AHRC funded project team, based in Queen Mary’s School of History, has been studying the members and their families from the foundation of the convents to the nuns' move to England as they became the target of French Revolutionary violence (1600-1800).

This event sees members of the team talking about the nuns’ lives in exile, from their role as writers to the part they played in international networks. There will be a demonstration of the project’s online database with its associated genealogical material which will be of wide general interest. As well as papers and discussion there will be the first European showing of Bren Ortega Murphy’s prize-winning film ‘A Question of Habit’ looking at images of women religious in American popular culture.

Registration fee from £35. For full details please visit www.history.qmul.ac.uk

Venue: The Octagon, Queens' Building, Mile End

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27 -29 June 2011, All day School of Business and Management Summer School Bayesian Methods for Empirical Macroeconomics Professor Gary Koop, University of Strathclyde This is a hands-on course, which starts from basic concepts in Bayesian Econometrics, and deals with VARs and models which can be put in state space form (i.e. linearized DSGE models, model with multivariate stochastic volatility and Time Varying Parameter-VARs). The econometrics of these models will be the focus of the course. However, some discussion of the implications of the theory for the econometrics will be provided. Lectures will take place in the mornings followed by hands-on computer sessions in the afternoons.

Delegates from public and private sectors: £750.00, Delegates from Higher Education: £300.00, Students: £200.00. Please visit http://hosted.busman.qmul.ac.uk/ cgr/Summer Schools/44157.html for further details

Venue: Mile End Campus, Event contact: cgr@qmul.ac.uk

13 July 2011, 5.15pm Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar in Dissenting Studies Reliquiae Baxterianae and the Shaping of the Seventeenth Century Professor Neil Keeble, The University of Stirling Please visit www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams / for further information

Venue: Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AR Event contact: i.rivers@qmul.ac.uk

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School of Medicine and Dentistry

The Centre for Health Sciences is pleased to announce the official opening of its new premises on the Whitechapel site

Medicine and Dentistry

7 – 8 July 2011 Paediatric Endocrinology Summer Conference Biological Variablity of Growth and Puberty: from Genetics to Management Please visit www.whripaedendo conference.com for further information

Venue: Derek Willoughby Lecture Theatre, Charterhouse Square Event contact: marianbyrt@echocoms.com

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7 June 2011, 5.30pm

Inaugural Lecture Adina Micheal-Titus, Professor of Neuroscience

Guest Lecture in Primary Care and Public Health Birth of a network: Developing Women's Health Research

Venue: Perrin Lecture Theatre, Blizard Building, Whitechapel

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Khalid Khan, Professor of Women's Health and Clinical Epidemiology

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Venue: Perrin Lecture Theatre,

7 June 2011, 5pm

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Blizard Building, Whitechapel Distinguished Guest Seminar Wnt/beta-catenin signalling in stem and cancer stem cells Professor Water Birchmeier, MaxDelbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin

Venue: Derek Willoughby Lecture Theatre, Charterhouse Square Event contact: v.dominguez@qmul.ac.uk

13 July 2011, 9am Advances in inflamation and Translational Medicine Conference Lectures will take place in the mornings followed by hands-on computer sessions in the afternoons

Venue: Derek Willoughby Lecture Theatre, Charterhouse Square Event contact: j.haycocks@qmul.ac.uk

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5 July 2011, 5pm Joint 400th Celebration with The Charter House Master of The Charter House & the Brothers

Venue: The Charter House and Marquee on the lawn, Charterhouse Square Event contact: events@qmul.ac.uk

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Barts and The London Science FeSTivaL The Barts and The London Science Festival will feature: • The ‘Science Market’, a “Kasbah” of scientific interactive installations, live demonstrations, experiments and games • The ‘Lecturettes’, catchy talks on relevant topics in Science given by senior scientists from our University and targeted to the general public in an unconventional way.

• The ‘Science Exhibition’, open to students and junior scientists who will present their science, or their views on science, to the general public in unconventional ways (role plays/dramas, demonstrations, experiments and games).

• The day will be closed by a heart education seminar (‘Let’s Talk Hearts’), one of a series of heart education seminars.

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Saturday 2 July 2011, 12pm venue: The Marquee and Derek Willoughby Lecture Theatre, Charterhouse Square event contact: j.batchelor@qmul.ac.uk

Alumni

The Principal, Professor Simon Gaskell, will be hosting receptions for alumni living in, working or visiting the Far East.

Alumni

5 July 2011 400th Anniversary of The Charterhouse The Master of The Charterhouse, Dr James Thomson, invites all Queen Mary staff and alumni to join him for an evening tour of The Charterhouse, followed by a reception.

This event is additionally raising funds for the Barts and The London Hospital Medical Club Benevolent Fund which supports medical students with bursaries and help towards the cost of their electives.

All gifts received will be matched.

There is a charge for this event of ÂŁ10 per person for catering. You can book online at www.qmul.ac.uk/alumni If you are unable to attend a BATLAA gift form can be found at www.qmul.ac.uk/alumni

Event contact: batlaa@qmul.ac.uk

Alumni Receptions in the Far East The Principal, Professor Simon Gaskell, will be hosting receptions for alumni living in, working or visiting in the following cities. Please contact alumni@qmul.ac.uk for more information.

24 June 2011, 6.30pm Alumni Reception in Singapore

Venue: The Conrad Centennial Hotel, 2 Temasek Boulevard, 038983, Singapore

25 June 2011, 6.30pm Alumni Reception in Kuala Lumpur

Venue: The Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50088, Kuala Lumpur

Venue: The Ritz-Carlton Shanghai, Pugong, 8 Century Avenue, Shaghai, Lujiazui, Pudong 200120, China

28 June 2011, 6.30pm Alumni Reception in Beijing

Venue: The British Embassy, 11 Guang Hua Lu, Jian Guo Men Wai, 100600, Beijing

Dates for your diary

2 July 2011, 6pm

Alumni Reunion Weekend 30 September – 1 October

26 June 2011, 6pm

Alumni Reception in Hong Kong

Alumni Reception in Shanghai

Venue: Grand Hyatt, 1 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong Event contact: alumni@qmul.ac.uk

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School of Physics Alumni Day 1 October Celebrating 100 years of The London Hospital Dental School 3- 4 October Queen Mary, University of London 15

Former Staff Association

...stay in touch and join a number of visits throughout the year.

Former Staff Association

The Association is open to all former staff of Queen Mary, Westfield or Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and offers members the opportunity to stay in touch and join a number of visits throughout the year. Guests are welcome to attend.

The following events are planned for the coming months. Please keep an eye on www.qmul.ac.uk/alumni/former staff for up-to-date information, including booking fees, or contact former-staff@qmul.ac.uk.

June 2011 (date tbc) Waverley River Thames cruise to Southend Join us for lunch aboard Waverley, a paddle steamer, for a cruise along the Thames to Southend. Tower Bridge will be opened for the steamer.

Dates for your diary Guided tour of the Guards Museum, Wellington Barracks 22 September 2011 Backstage tour of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden October 2011 (date tbc) Former Staff Association Annual General Meeting 19 October 2011 Christmas Lunch The Red House, Redbridge December 2011 (date tbc) For more information about the Former Staff Association, including how to join, visit www.qmul.ac.uk/alumni/ formerstaff or email former-staff@qmul.ac.uk

13 July 2011 Boat trip from Westminster to Hampton Court This one-way boat trip will take us from Westminster to Hampton Court; our return journey will be by train.

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- Biophysics in Dentistry - Biomaterials - Disability and Dyslexia Service - Audio Visual Services - Language Lab - Bar Med 14 G E Fogg Building

- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences 15 G O Jones Building - Department of Physics - Learning Resource Centre - Lecture Theatre 16 Geography Building - Drapers’ Lecture Theatre - Advice and Counselling - Health Centre - Department of Geography - Occupational Health Service - Joint Research Development Office - Professionals Complimentary to Dentistry 17 Graduate Centre for Humanities and Social Science (Lock-keeper’s Cottage) 18 Hatton House (Student Residences) 19 Qmotion (Health and Fitness Centre) Students’ Union shop 20 Humanities Building (under construction 2010) 21 Ifor Evans Place (Student Residences) 22 Informatics Teaching Laboratory (ITL) 23 Library 24 Lindop House (Student Residences) 25 Lodge House (Student Residences) 26 Lynden House (Student Residences)

27 Mathematical Sciences 28 Maurice Court (Student Residences) 29 Maynard House (Student Residences) 30 Multi-Faith Centre 31 Nursery 32 People’s Palace - Great Hall - Skeel LT 33 Pooley House (Student Residences) 35 Principal’s Office 34 Queens’ Building - Main Reception/Enquiries - College Administration - Admissions Office - Residences Office - Security Lodge - The Octagon - Department of Economics 36 Richard Feilden House - Blomeley Centre (Student Union Offices) - The Curve - Student Residences 37 Selincourt House (Student Residences) 38 Sir Christopher France House (Student Residences) 39 St Benet’s Chaplaincy 40 Student Village Shop 41 Varey House (Student Residences) 42 Joseph Priestley Building - Engineering and Materials Science (Nanoforce) - School of Biological and Chemical Sciences

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