Brain Food Summer 2011

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public events at ucl

TALKS, EXHIBITIONS, WORKSHOPS & MORE APRIL–AUGUST 2011 www.ucl.ac.uk/events

Welcome to Brain Food. In these pages you’ll find highlights from UCL’s wide range of public events. For a full listing and the most up to date information, please visit our public events website at: www.ucl.ac.uk/events As London’s leading multidisciplinary university, we’re passionate about bringing our research into the community and welcoming visitors into UCL to share in our activities. Everything from talks, workshops and seminars through to film screenings and exhibitions is featured here.

Highlights this issue include UCL Lunch Hour Lectures on Tour at the British Museum throughout June (see p14-15) and a rare glimpse inside UCL’s Slade School of Art and Bartlett School of Architecture with their Summer Shows, featuring innovative work by this year’s graduating students (p9). Or, if you’re looking for free family activities over the holidays, then visit our Museums & Collections for some inspiring and fun days out (p6-8, 18 & 21).

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The majority of UCL events are free, open to everyone and require no booking unless otherwise stated. The events listed in this leaflet are just a small selection of what’s on offer – for a full listing please visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/events If you would like to subscribe to our Brain Food email newsletter, or to receive future copies of the UCL events leaflet, please send your details to: events@ucl.ac.uk or call +44 (0)20 3108 3842.

public events at ucl

Contents 2 Events diary 14 Lunch Hour Lectures on Tour 22 Exhibitions 24 Venue locations 25 Getting to UCL 26 Visitor information

+44 (0)20 7679 2000 www.ucl.ac.uk/events University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT

events diary APRIL–AUGUST 2011 Thursday 28 April

My big fat ancient Egyptian wedding

6.30–7.30pm UCL Petrie Museum

Lucia Gahlin (Friends of the Petrie Museum) d.challis@ucl.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7679 4138 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie

Doors open from 6pm

See below.

Thursday 5 May

Petrie, archaeology and eugenics

Lecture

6.30–7.30pm Lecture UCL Petrie Museum Doors open from 6pm

Dr Kathleen L Sheppard (American University, Cairo) d.challis@ucl.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7679 4138 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie

An exploration of Flinders Petrie’s involvement with Francis Galton and the eugenics movement at UCL by Kathleen L Sheppard. This talk examines Petrie’s views on politics and eugenics – views that would be considered controversial today – and asks whether these had an effect on

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his archaeological work.

MY BIG FAT ANCIENT EGYPTIAN WEDDING Thursday 28 april 6.30–7.30pm Wedding? What royal wedding?

People have been getting together for millennia – find out how they did (or didn’t do) it in ancient Egypt.

Lucia Gahlin will guide us through Egyptian relationships and look at the economics of romance.

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6.30–7.30pm Lecture & reception JZ Young Lecture Theatre A UCL Grant Museum event

Life in the universe: Chance or necessity?

Dr Nick Lane (UCL Genetics, Evolution & the Environment) zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on/

Dr Nick Lane, leading expert on life’s origins and author of the award-winning Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, joins us to investigate the beginnings of life. The ‘meaning of it all’ ultimately hinges on whether we arose by chance, or whether there is some cosmic imperative behind our existence.

Forty years ago, geneticist Jacques Monod arrived at the bleak conclusion that we are alone, a freak accident in an empty universe. Since Monod, we have transformed our understanding of molecular biology and evolution, as well as our knowledge of the cosmos and the conditions under which life appeared.

As a fitting start to the Life Begins season at the Grant Museum, Dr Lane will reappraise Monod’s stark perspective on life’s origins. He shall argue that the origin of life was easy, thermodynamically nearly inevitable, but the birth of complex life was another matter altogether. This event is free and there is no need to book.

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Tuesday 10 May

Thursday 12 May

Geeks at the Petrie

5–8pm Late Opening

d.challis@ucl.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7679 4138 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie

UCL Petrie Museum

Get down and dirty with technology at the Petrie Museum. Find out more and play with our virtual museum project, try out our iPad exhibition, turn objects upside down on our 3-D programme and check out our QR-code labels. An informal chance to see how ancient and contemporary technologies collide.

Friday 13 May 6–8.30pm Treasure hunt &

Life and death treasure hunt with UCL Museums

Chadwick Lecture

zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on

Theatre

Join the chase and follow clues which lead

reception

A UCL Museums &

you around the incredible hidden

Collections event

museums & collections at UCL, hunting out intriguing objects and specimens in store.

There are prizes to be won by the team that solves all the mysteries and locates every artefact required from art, Egyptian archaeology, zoology and geology. For Museums at Night, spend Friday the 13th exploring the vital themes of life and death with our amazing collections. Part of the Life Begins season at the Grant Museum.

Friday 13 May

Gothic Egypt

6–9pm

d.challis@ucl.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7679 4138 www.culture24.org.uk/places+to+go/ museums+at+night

Late Opening UCL Petrie Museum

Pick up a trail to explore the Petrie Museum or just come along and enjoy the museum after work. The Gothic Egypt trail considers some of the myths and stories used in late 19th century and early 20th century horror stories that led to The Mummy and numerous films since. The museum is open late along with the Grant Museum of Zoology and the Art Collections as part of a quiz on ‘Life and Death’ around UCL campus.

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the journey to find and save the world’s rarest primates Tuesday 24 may 6.30–7.30pm Join us for an evening of light-hearted discussion as we investigate what it is like to search for and study an animal on the brink of extinction. How do conservation organisations go about choosing what to save? What is life like trekking through jungles and swamps looking for an animal that only exists in double figures? If you find it, how would you try to protect it? What are the challenges in communicating conservation messages when it comes to endangered species? With an expert panel of field researchers and leading conservationists, join us to celebrate International Day of Biodiversity and the Year of Forests.

Tuesday 24 May 6.30–7.30pm Discussion & reception Darwin Lecture Theatre A UCL Grant Museum of Zoology event

The journey to find and save the world’s rarest primates Sam Turvey (Zoological Society of London), Helen Thirlway (Director, International Primate Protection League UK), Helen Chatterjee (UCL Genetics, Evolution & the Environment), Jessica Bryant (UCL Genetics, Evolution & the Environment and Zoological Society of London) zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on

See above.

Wednesday 25 May

Population footprints

& Thursday 26 May

c.lister@ich.ucl.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7905 2232 www.populationfootprints.org

9am–5pm Conference

Human population growth and global

Mermaid Conference

carrying capacity is often regarded as

& Events Centre

simply too controversial and difficult to be

Puddle Dock, Blackfriars, London EC4V 3DB Pre-booking essential Tickets £120 or £40 for students

tackled through rational analysis. High profile international speakers from multinational and government agencies, NGOs and leading academic institutions will discuss gender, climate change, the Millenium Development Goals, migration, reproductive rights and ageing.

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BRIGHT CLUB’S popping up all over THIS SUMMER This summer, Bright Club – UCL’s variety night where researchers perform stand-up comedy about their work – will be popping up all over the place.

Come and join us at our regular monthly gigs at the Wilmington Arms in Clerkenwell, at the Green Man Festival in Wales in August, and as part of the Camden Fringe.

Visit www.brightclub.org for details.

Wednesday 25 May

Egyptian medicine

6.30–7.30pm

Dr Carole Reeves (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL) d.challis@ucl.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7679 4138 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie

Lecture UCL Petrie Museum Doors open from 6pm

Outreach historian Carole Reeves will introduce us to medical knowledge and concepts in Ancient Egypt. She examines the idea of physical and spiritual healing and considers how much the Egyptians knew about what is today defined as medicine.

Tuesday 31 May

Rainforest animals: Half-term activities

– Friday 3 June Family activity

zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on

UCL Grant Museum

For half-term and the International Year of

1–5pm

Forests, take a trip to the Grant Museum and investigate the fantastic creatures from the world’s jungles and rainforests. Handle a howler monkey, stroke a snake skin and discover a dodo with the museum’s brilliant hands-on activities.

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(Post) Yugoslav Cinema Festival

Wednesday 1 June Film festival

u.staiger@ucl.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7679 8737 www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/events/ yugoslav-film

Darwin Lecture Theatre

To commemorate the great Yugoslav actor

5–9pm

Bekim Fehmiu, the UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies and the UCL European Institute host a two day festival of (post) Yugoslav cinema. Events include premier screenings and debates with some of the most famous Yugoslav film directors, as well as the new and rising film makers from Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia.

Come and discover why Yugoslavia had one of Europe’s biggest and most successful film industries, and how it was related to the state and its tragic collapse.

Could film making be peace making and how are films now made across the borders?

Thursday 2 June 4–5.30pm Panel discussion Roberts G08 Lecture Theatre

Pilgrimage, travel and tourism in European and global contexts u.staiger@ucl.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7679 8737 www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/events/ piligrimage

Millions of people go on pilgrimage every year and the numbers are increasing, despite conflicts in the regions where some of the most famous shrines are located. This global movement is intimately associated with another of increasing significance – tourism. This public discussion will consider not only the social and cultural dimensions of this relationship but also the business of organising and leading pilgrimage tours in Europe and beyond.

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Tuesday 31 May–

Wednesday 1 June

Bling and beads: Half-term activities

2–4.30pm Family activity

d.challis@ucl.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7679 4138 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie

UCL Petrie Museum

Pick up a trail about jewellery in Ancient Egypt, then make your own bling and thread beads in the museum.

Thursday 2 June 6–8pm Late Opening UCL Petrie Museum

Dress like an (Ancient) Egyptian Janet Johnstone d.challis@ucl.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7679 4138 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie

Find out more about what the Ancient Egyptians wore in this practical demonstration of dress and jewellery by Egyptology Clothing expert Janet Johnstone. Warning – we will need volunteers to try out the clothes! Also, pick up some practical suggestions on making your own Egyptian outfits and accessories.

Tuesday 7 June 6.30-8pm Talk/stand up Darwin Lecture Theatre Doors open from 6pm Pre-booking essential via eventbrite

Ideas man: The stranger notions of Francis Galton Daniel Maier (UCL Museums & Collections and UCL Library Services) d.challis@ucl.ac.uk, +44 (0)20 7679 4138 www.eventbrite.com/event/652880784

Comedy writer Daniel Maier examines the stranger side of the Victorian polymath and scientist Francis Galton. Take a tour through some of Galton’s odder investigations, from measuring insect hearing to better cake slicing.

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Degree Show: UCL Slade School of Fine Art 28 May–2 June & 16 June– 22 June, weekends 10am–5pm weekdays 10am–8pm Sculptures, paintings, installations and multimedia works will be on show at the annual exhibition by the current graduating year of students from the prestigious UCL Slade School of Fine Art. slade.enquiries@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2313

UCL Bartlett School of Architecture: Summer Show 2011 2 July–9 July, 10am–5pm The Summer Show is the annual celebration of work at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture. Over 450 students show innovative drawings, models, devices, texts, animations and installations. www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture (check online for further details)

UCL CHAMBER MUSIC CLUB CONCERT SERIES HALDANE ROOM, UCL MAIN CAMPUS Check for up-to-date details at: www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music TUESDAY 10 MAY, 5.30–6.30pm Renaissance and Baroque music for voices and instruments by Palestrina, Monteverdi, Handel and others.

FRIDAY 27 MAY, 1.10–1.55pm A lunch hour concert presented jointly with RUMS Music Society; the programme will include Beethoven’s Serenade Op.25 for flute, violin and viola.

THURSDAY 9 JUNE, 5–6.30 pm End-of-year concert and AGM. Richard Strauss’s Serenade Op.7 for 13 winds will be followed by the work said to have inspired it, Mozart’s Gran Partita KV 36 for similar forces.

Refreshments will be served.

Contact: Jill House j.house@ucl.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7679 4231

Thursday 9 June 1.15–1.55pm BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG

A climate of fear: What the past tells us about human responses to climate change Dr Joe Flatman (UCL Institute of Archaeology) tickets@britishmuseum.org +44 (0)20 7323 8181; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhlontour

Free, pre-booking

For World Environment Day (5 June),

recommended

archaeologist Joe Flatman will use a series of objects from the British Museum to explore what the past tells us about human responses to climate change. The barrage of conflicting information about climate change can seem insurmountable – a problem too big for any one person to understand or any one community to manage. Ancient objects from around the world provide us with insights into how people in the past dealt with, perceived of, responded to and ultimately prospered in changing climates. Archaeology thus also provides analogies for how modern society can face the ‘climate challenge’ now and in the future.

Thursday 9 June

Lessons from the Eurozone crisis

5.30pm

u.staiger@ucl.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7679 8737 www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/events/ eurozone

Panel discussion Darwin Lecture Theatre A UCL European Institute event

The Eurozone’s crisis, following on from the global financial crash, confirmed that large imbalances in the real economy or the financial sector are bound to disrupt the functioning of economic systems.

Preventing or redressing such imbalances has thus become a central challenge for economic policy, crystallizing in the efforts to reform the Eurozone’s system of governance. Yet whether a more supranational institutional set-up is needed or nation-centred ones should prevail is the subject of fierce debate. This discussion with politicians, journalists and academics, will explore this critical issue.

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lunch hour lectureS ON TOUR

Tuesday 14 June

Astrobiology: The hunt for alien life

6.30–7.30pm

Dr Lewis Dartnell (UCL Centre for Planetary Sciences) zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on

Lecture & reception Darwin Lecture Theatre A UCL Grant Museum of Zoology event

Astrobiology is a new field of science encompassing the origins and limits of life on our own planet, and where life might exist beyond the Earth. But what actually is ‘life’? And what are the most extreme life forms we’ve now discovered on our home world? Join Lewis Dartnell on a tour of the other planets and moons in our solar system which may harbour life, and even further afield to alien worlds we’ve discovered orbiting distant stars, to explore one of the greatest questions ever asked: “are we alone…?”

Wednesday 15 June

Alternative Vote referendum

1pm

Jenny Watson (Chair, Electoral Commission) constitution@ucl.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7679 4977 www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/events/publicseminars-10-11/av-referendum

Seminar Council Room, UCL School of Public Policy

At this seminar, Jenny Watson, Chair of

Pre-booking essential

the Electoral Commission, will give a post

A UCL Constitution

referendum seminar discussing issues

Unit event

surrounding the administration of the referendum and the lessons that can be learned for the future.

Thursday 16 – Sunday 19 June 12–10.30pm

Open City London documentary film festival

Darwin Lecture Theatre

+44 (0)20 7679 4907; www.opencitylondon.com www.mystreetfilms.com

Pre-booking essential

International, Emerging, Best City and

Film festival

Tickets £5

Best Mystreet filmprizes to be won.

Major parallel screenings and panels including Shoah with Claude Lanzmann Q&A, Roma in Film and Film in the City.

A major film festival over four days at UCL. Check online for screening times.

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lunch hour lectureS ON TOUR Thursday 16 June 1.15–1.55pm Lecture BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG Free, pre-booking recommended

30 years and still counting: slowing the spread of HIV in a complex world Professor Anne Johnson (UCL Institute for Global Health) tickets@britishmuseum.org +44 (0)20 7323 8181 www.ucl.ac.uk/lhlontour

Nearly 30 years on from the first description of AIDS, there are now over 33 million people estimated to be infected with HIV worldwide. Thanks to new drugs, people with HIV are now living longer and healthier lives. However, less than a third of people who could benefit currently get treatment, and for every 2 people put on treatment, 5 more are becoming infected. This lecture will look at the successes and failures of HIV prevention and explore the social, economic and technical challenges involved in slowing its future spread.

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LUNCH HOUR

LECTURES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM

ON TOUR

Thursday 9 June A climate of fear: what the past tells us about human responses to climate change Dr Joe Flatman (UCL Institute of Archaeology) BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum

Thursday 23 June Desirability and domination: Greek sculpture and the modern male body Professor Maria Wyke (UCL Greek & Latin) Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum

Thursday 16 June 30 years and still counting: slowing the spread of HIV in a complex world Professor Anne Johnson (UCL Institute for Global Health) BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum

Thursday 30 June Science meets art: investigating pigments in art and archaeology Professor Robin Clark CNZM, FRS (UCL Chemistry) BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum

Follow us:

During June 2011, UCL’s Lunch Hour Lectures are going on tour to the British Museum.

Running since the 1940’s, this bite-sized lecture series showcases UCL’s ground breaking research to the general public.

1.15–1.55pm Entrance is free, with booking advised.

To book tickets tel: 020 7323 8181 or email: tickets@britishmuseum.org

How to get to the British Museum Euston Square

Southampton Row

UCL Gower Street

Goodge Street

Tottenham Court Road

EUSTON ROAD

Russell

Square

Russell Square

British Museum Tottenham Court Road

Great Russell St.

Holborn

All lectures will also be available to watch online:

www.ucl.ac.uk/lhlontour

lunch hour lectureS ON TOUR Thursday 23 June 1.15–1.55pm Lecture Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum Great Russell Street,

Desirability and domination: Greek sculpture and the modern male body Professor Maria Wyke (UCL Greek & Latin) tickets@britishmuseum.org +44 (0)20 7323 8181 www.ucl.ac.uk/lhlontour

London WC1B 3DG

This lecture will discuss Greek sculptures

Free, pre-booking

and some of the ways in which their ideal

recommended

representations of the male body have shaped the 20th century strongman and the bodybuilder, particularly in terms of their display of power and sexuality. The talk will include the culture of the circus strongman, bodybuilding shows, physique magazines and the post-war craze for Italian sword-and-scandal films starring bodybuilders as ancient heroes.

2–11pm

Royal Anthropological Institute ethnographic film festival

Film festival

+44 (0)20 7679 4907; www.raifilmfest.org.uk

Darwin Lecture Theatre

See opposite.

Thursday 23 June

and other venues Pre-booking essential

lunch hour lectures on tour Thursday 30 June 1.15–1.55pm Lecture BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG Free, pre-booking recommended

Science meets art: investigating pigments in art and archaeology Professor Robin Clark CNZM, FRS (UCL Chemistry) tickets@britishmuseum.org +44 (0)20 7323 8181 www.ucl.ac.uk/lhlontour

Professor Clark has used pigment analysis to reveal the secrets of the Lindisfarne Gospels, Gutenberg Bibles, Greek icons, forged papyri and the ‘36th Vermeer painting’. In this lecture he will explain and explore how the technique of Raman spectroscopy has helped in the restoration, conservation and dating of artwork along with the detection of forgeries.

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UCL Open Day

10am–4pm Main UCL campus

c.fionda@ucl.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7679 3016 www.ucl.ac.uk/openday

Pre-booking essential

An opportunity to visit the campus and attend subject talks and general presentations. This event is primarily for Year 12 students about to make UCAS decisions. The online booking system will be open from mid-April 2011 for individual and group bookings.

Thursday 30 June 6.30–8.30pm Film night & reception Darwin Lecture Theatre A UCL Grant Museum event

The Lost World (1960) on the big screen Dr Joe Cain (UCL Science & Technology Studies) zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on

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Royal Anthropological Institute ethnographic film festival thursday 23 june Exciting programme of over 60 films from around the world competing for prizes: Royal Anthropological Institute Film Prize, Basil Wright Film Prize, Wiley-Blackwell Student Film Prize, Material Culture and Archaeology Film Prize, Intangible Culture Film Prize (music-dance-performance)

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Thursday 30 June

Saturday 2 July

Nasty nature: Family activity day

11am–4pm

zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on

Family Activity UCL Grant Museum

Meet some of the nastiest creatures on the planet with the Grant Museum’s special hands-on activities. Find out why some animals are more dangerous than others, and which are just pretending. With specimens showing some impressive natural weapons, discover which animals are nasty and which ones are nice.

Wednesday 6 July

Reforming party funding

6pm

Professor Justin Fisher (Brunel University) constitution@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4977 www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/events/publicseminars-10-11/party-funding

Seminar Council Room Pre-booking essential A UCL Constitution Unit event

The Coalition has promised to ‘pursue a detailed agreement on limiting donations and reforming party funding in order to remove big money from politics’. Professor Fisher will discuss the reform options that are available and the challenges in reaching an all party consensus.

the lost world (1960) on the big screen THURSDAY 30 june In this classic 1960 remake, join roguish Professor Challenger as he attempts to prove that dinosaurs (portrayed by lizards with spikes glued on) survive in South America. The dare-devil team of adventurers meet more then they bargained for, in the shape of giant spiders, cannibals and man-eating plants. The film includes aerial views of the great Angel Falls.

The equally roguish Dr Joe Cain, science historian and resident film boffin, will introduce the film.

Part of the Life Begins season at the Grant Museum.

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UCL OPEN DAY THURSDAY 30 june 10am–4pm An opportunity to visit the campus and attend subject talks and general presentations. This event is primarily for Year 12 students about to make UCAS decisions. The online booking system will be open from April 2011 for individual and group bookings www.ucl.ac.uk/openday

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Thursday 7 July

Alexander and the Greeks in Egypt

5–8pm

d.challis@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 679 4138 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie

UCL Petrie Museum

The museum opens its doors late for a trail on Alexander the Great and the Greeks in Egypt. This trail explores why there have been so many recent exhibitions reevaluating Alexander’s life. Find out how Greek culture became Egyptian with a twist and the impact of Egypt on Greece, in particular Macedonia.

Monday 8 August–

Big Beasts: Summer holiday activities

Friday 12 August

zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on

1–5pm Family Activity UCL Grant Museum

From six tonne elephants to six metre worms, come and investigate the animals at the top end of the scales. Discover the longest, heaviest, strongest and tallest creatures on Earth with the museum’s fantastic specimens and activities. What would you do if you met an eight metrelong crocodile or snake as long as a bus?

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exhibitions 29 March – 22 December Museum opening times UCL Petrie Museum

Typecast: Flinders Petrie and Francis Galton Dr Debbie Challis d.challis@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

In 1886 Francis Galton commissioned Flinders Petrie to take photographs of different ‘racial types’ that were present in or enemies of Ancient Egyptian civilization.

This was part of Galton’s project of skull measurements and research into racial difference and the start of a lifelong friendship between Galton and Petrie. This exhibition displays some of those photographs and explores their contentious legacies, examining and inviting comment on Galton and Petrie as well as on the impact of racial theory on archaeology. It is part of the Legacies of Galton: Centenary Programme at UCL. 11 April – 17 June Monday – Friday 1-5pm The Strang Print Room UCL Art Collectionss

Moreover: The Slade revisits UCL Art Collections college.art@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)207 679 2540 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/uclart

© Nicolas Feldmeyer

This exhibition began with a challenge to all current students at the Slade to develop their own practice using contemporary media and contemporary modes of thinking while taking the time to consider and appreciate what has gone before.

Moreover presents the work of 21 finalists – all of whom have appropriated, undermined and/or marked up past masters to create individual, new works in a range of media, including performance, print, sculpture, and video.

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Climate stories

– March 2012

charlotte.jones.10@ucl.ac.uk

Weekdays 9am–5pm

www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/archaeology

Leventis Gallery

Polar bears. Apocalypse. Carbon Footprint.

UCL Institute

You might think of these things when you

of Archaeology

think about climate change. But how did the Vikings experience it? Or Henry VIII? Climate stories explores the fascinating historic diversity of human reactions to the changing climate.

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Stories of the world: London

Geffrye Museum A UCL Institute of

www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/whatson/ stories-world-london

Archaeology event

MA students from the Museum & Site Interpretation module at the UCL Institute of Archaeology are collaborating with the Geffrye Museum to develop an exhibition for their Stories of the World: London project, part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad programme, Stories of the World.

BA Fine Art Show:

Slade School Degree Shows

28 May–2 June

slade.enquiries@ucl.ac.uk +44(0)20 7679 2313

MFA/MA Show: 16 June–22 June weekends 10am–5pm weekdays10am–8pm Slade School of Fine Art

Sculptures, paintings, installations and multimedia works will be on show at the annual exhibition by the current graduating year of students from the prestigious UCL Slade School of Fine Art.

10am–5pm

UCL Bartlett School of Architecture: Summer Show 2011

(check online for

www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture

further details)

The annual celebration of work at the UCL

2 July–9 July

Bartlett. Over 450 students show innovative drawings, models, devices, texts, animations and installations.

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exhibitions

10 May 2011

Venue Locations

5 UCL Darwin Lecture Theatre Darwin Building, Malet Place, London, WC1E 6BT

1 UCL Main Campus Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT +44 (0)20 7679 2000 www.ucl.ac.uk

6 UCL Grant Museum of Zoology Rockefeller Building, 21 University Street, WC1E 6DE Monday–Friday, 1–5pm zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/zoology

2 UCL Art Collections (Strang Print Room) South Cloisters, UCL Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Monday–Friday, 1–5pm college.art@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540 www.artmuseum.ucl.ac.uk

7 JZ Young Lecture Theatre UCL Anatomy Building Gower Street, WC1E 6BT 8 UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Malet Place, UCL, WC1E 6BT Tuesday to Friday 1–5pm and Saturday 10–1pm petrie.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2884 www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk

3 Leventis Gallery UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY 4 UCL Bloomsbury Theatre 15 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AH +44 (0)20 7388 8822 www.thebloomsbury.com Check online for full Bloomsbury Theatre event listing

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Getting to UCL

By Tube Underground stations near to UCL’s main campus: Euston Square (Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith and City Lines) Goodge Street (Northern Line) Warren Street (Northern and Victoria Lines).

By Rail Mainline train stations near to UCL’s main campus: Euston, King’s Cross and St Pancras International

By Bus Buses serving Gower Street 134, 390, 10, 73, 24, 29, 14

By Car The Bloomsbury area has metered parking and visitors are strongly advised not to travel to UCL by car.

UCL Grant Museum of Zoology Relocation Notice UCL Grant Museum of Zoology, has moved!

Come and visit us in the Rockefeller building 21 University Street, WC1E 6DE

venue locations / getting to UCL

9 UCL Roberts Building (G06, G08,106) Torrington Place, UCL, WC1E 7JE Entrance on Malet Place

VIsitor information ADMISSION All events are free and open to everyone with no need to book in advance – unless otherwise stated.

WATCHING ONLINE If you are unable to attend any of our lectures, many are now being filmed and are available to download for free from our website, our YouTube site or on iTunes U. further information For further information please contact individual events or visit www.ucl.ac.uk/events term dates 3 May–17 June

ACCESSIBILITY UCL aims to provide accessibility to all its events.

If you require any information about any accessibility requirements please contact UCL Disability Services on +44 (0)20 7679 0100 disability@ucl.ac.uk GENERAL ENQUIRIES Main Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7679 2000 Main address: University College London Gower Street London, WC1E 6BT For further information about any of our events please visit our website www.ucl.ac.uk/events

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