What's On at UEA - spring 2013

University of East Anglia What’s On Spring 2013

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What’s On Spring 2013

What’s On brings you up to date on what is happening in and around the University. From drama performances and concert tickets to family days out, we make sure that we keep you updated with what’s happening.

Contents 03_Drama 04_Literature 05_Gigs 10_Lectures 12_Economics Lectures 13_Inaugural Lectures 14_Concerts 16_Art Events and Exhibitions 20_Translation 21_Community University Engagement 22_Other Events 23_How to get to UEA

Drama Studio (UEA Studio)

All performances take place at 7.30pm at the UEA Studio, unless otherwise stated.

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

Thursday 17, Friday 18, Saturday 19 January

Thursday 14, Friday 15, Saturday 16 February

Thursday 7 and Friday 8 March

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Cabaret: a night at the musicals

A play by Edward Albee

(charity event)

Tickets £6, £4 concessions

Free admission: donations welcome. To book tickets please email dramaevents@uea.ac.uk

Thursday 24, Friday 25, Saturday 26 January

Shackled A play by Ayse Tary – Winner of the Minotaur Theatre Company’s New Writing Competition 2013 Tickets £6, £4 concessions

To book tickets please call 01603 508050 or visit www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk

Thursday 28 February, Friday 1 and Saturday 2 March March

Rhinoceros A play by Eugène Ionesco, translated by Martin Crimp Tickets £6, £4 concessions

Sword in the Stone A new staged adaptation of TH White’s novel, with music

by Benjamin Britten – a co-production between UEA Drama and Chamber Orchestra Anglia Ticket prices TBC Wednesday 13 – Saturday 19 March

Sacré Théâtre – Eugène Inoesco’s Macbett (French language production) Cost TBC For more information please email Claudine Tourniaire at c.tourniaire@uea.ac.uk or visit www.uea.ac.uk/lcs/frenchtheatre-at-uea

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Literature

Tickets for UEA Spring Literary Festival talks cost £7 per event (no concessions) or £49 for a season ticket (£42 concessions). Poetry Passports cost £12. All lectures begin at 7pm in Lecture Theatre 1.

For more information please visit www.uea.ac.uk/litfest or email literaryevents@uea.ac.uk. To book tickets please call 01603 508050.

FEBRUARY

Lee Child

Wednesday 6 February

Lee Child Tuesday 12 February

Kathleen Jamie Tuesday 19 February

Tracey Thorn MARCH Tuesday 12 March

Ruth Padel APRIL Tuesday 16 April

James Meek Tuesday 23 April

Posy Simmonds MAY Tuesday 7 May

Tessa Hadley Tuesday 28 May

Colm Toíbín

Ruth Padel

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Tracey Thorn

Gigs

Doors open 7.30–11pm (7pm on Sundays) unless otherwise stated.

For more information and to book tickets please call 01603 508050 or visit www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk. All gigs are for over 14’s only.

Prices are advance only (more on the door) and may be subject to a booking fee.

Chris Ramsey

Gigs at the University’s LCR

Steve Cropper

Little Feat

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

Wednesday 9 January

Friday 8 February

Comedy Club: Chris Ramsey

The Kerrang Tour 2013

Feeling Lucky Tour – with support from Carl Hutchinson 8pm, £10 (£8.50 NUS)

feat. Black Veil Brides + Chiodos + Tonight Alive + Fearless Vampire Killers 6.30pm, £16.50

Wednesday 23 January

Sunday 10 February

Steve Cropper & The Animals

Little Feat £28.50

£20 Friday 15 February

NME Awards Tour 2013 feat. Django Django + Miles Kane + Palma Violets + Peace 7pm, £19.10 (tickets are subject to a 50p + VAT donation to teenage cancer)

Black Veil Brides

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Gigs

Jake Bugg

Foals

Clannad

Sunday 17 February

Friday 8 March

Thursday 14 March

Jake Bugg

Foals

Skunk Anansie

+ Valerie June + Hudson Taylor £12 SOLD OUT

£16.50 SOLD OUT

£24

Saturday 9 March

Thursday 21 March

Lawson

Clannad

Chapman Square Tour + Special Guests 6.30pm, £14

(2x 55 minute sets, no support) £25

MARCH Saturday 2 March

The Straits £25

Monday 23 March Sunday 3 March

The Stranglers

Of Monsters & Men

+ The Godfathers £23

£14 SOLD OUT

Of Monsters and Men

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The Stranglers

Tuesday 26 March

Eels ÂŁ23.50

Eels

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Gigs

Miguel

Doors open 7.30–11pm (7pm on Sundays) unless otherwise stated.

For more information and to book tickets please call 01603 508050 or visit www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk. All gigs are for over 14’s only.

The Joy Formidable

Funeral For A Friend

Gigs at the Waterfront

FEBRUARY

Thursday 21 February

Friday 8 February

Your Demise

JANUARY

Frightened Rabbit

Friday 18 January

The Waterfront Rocks!

BBC Radio 1’s Daniel P Carter DJ Set 10pm, £5 (£4 NUS) Saturday 19 January

Miguel + Special Guest 6.30–10pm, £18.50

+ Wintersleep + Washington Irving 7–10pm, plus free entry to club 10–3am, £12.50

Tuesday 26 February

Uriah Heep Saturday 9 February

Funeral For A Friend + Such Gold + Daytrader + I Divide £14 Sunday 10 February

Wednesday 23 January

High On Fire

The Joy Formidable £12.50

+ Special Guests 7pm, £13

Thursday 31 January

Monday 11 February

We Are The Ocean

Modestep

+ Yashin + Straight Lines 7pm, £12.50

£12

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+ Heights + Counterparts + Fact £10

£20 MARCH Monday 4 March

Reel Big Fish £14.50 Tuesday 5 March

Yellowcard + Set It Off + Like Torche £14

Prices are advance only (more on the door) and may be subject to a booking fee. The Waterfront, a Student Union run venue, is situated in King Street, Norwich.

In the Studio

Johnny Marr

Friday 8 March

Bastille 6.30–10pm, plus free entry to 90’s from 10pm, £10

Wednesday 9 January

Tuesday 5 February

The Barlights + We Can’t Dance + CC41 + The Rumble £5

Orange Goblin £12.50

Thursday 10 January Darwin & The Dinosaur + Fans of Faye + Native Sons + Light Parades £5 Friday 11 January

Monday 11 March

Intensi-T 7–10pm, plus free entry to club 10– 3am, £8.50

Johnny Marr

Saturday 12 January

£19.50

Thursday 21 February Exit 10 £8 Sunday 24 February Stray From The Path + Landscapes £7 Wednesday 27 February Jim Lockey and The Solemn Sun £7

Cockney Rejects

This Is Colour + Annotations of an autopsy + Martyr Defiled + One Step Down 7–10pm, plus free entry to 80’s club 10–3am, £6

(new date, original tickets valid) £16.50

Friday 18 January

Tuesday 26 March

Wednesday 20 March

TWR Live!

Burning Crows + Wicked Faith + Soulborn + Blind Tiger + Enigma 7–10pm, £5

Thursday 4 April

Saturday 16 March

Stiff Little Fingers £17

Wednesday 30 January Thursday 21 March

The Selecter £15

Henrik Freischlader + Nina Baker £11

Sunday 3 March Chantel McGregor £11

The Martin Harley Band + Marc O’Reilly £12.50

King Charles £10 Sunday 7 April Larry Miller + Nina Baker £11

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Lectures

Lectures are open to all and free unless otherwise stated.

JANUARY

Thursday 24 January

Thursday 17 January

Space and time in Jomon Japan Prof Yasuhiro Taniguchi, Kokugakuin University, Japan 6–7.30pm, Norwich Cathedral Hostry (Weston Room) Free entry, booking required.

For more information please call 01603 597507, email sisjac@ sainsbury-institute.org or visit www.sainsbury-institute.org Thursday 24 January

UEA London Lecture Dangerous neighbours: living alongside active volcanoes

Representing the UK in the EU – is English enough?

by Sam Scott 1.10–2pm, Lecture Theatre 4 Free entry For more information please email Leticia Yulita at l.yulita@uea.ac.uk Thursday 31 January

Keswick Hall Lecture Compassion: nice idea or urgent global imperative?

FEBRUARY Monday 4 February

The Sebald Lecture Paradise Lost: Confessions of an apostate translator Boris Akunin 7pm, Kings Place London, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG £9.50 For more information please visit www.bclt.org.uk/events/ sebald-lecture Thursday 14 February

Three Faiths Dialogue

Karen Armstrong

David Gillett

Time TBC, Thomas Paine Lecture Theatre.

1.10–2pm, Lecture Theatre 4

Dr Jenni Barclay

Free entry

7pm, UEA London, 102 Middlesex St, London E1 7EZ

For more information please email events@uea.ac.uk

For more information please email Leticia Yulita at l.yulita@uea.ac.uk

Free entry, all welcome Please register online at www.uea.ac.uk/alumni or email alumni@uea.ac.uk

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Free entry

Thursday 21 February

Innovating Tradition: Conservation of Japanese Scroll Paintings in Britain Keisuke Sugiyama, Senior Conservator of Japanese Paintings, Hirayama Studio, The British Museum 6–7.30pm, Norwich Cathedral Hostry (Weston Room) Free entry, booking required For more information please call 01603 597507, email sisjac@ sainsbury-institute.org or visit www.sainsbury-institute.org

MARCH Thursday 21 March

‘From Cold War to Tropical Heat: a career in diplomacy’ Philip Priestley 1.10–2pm, Lecture Theatre 4 Free entry For more information please email Leticia Yulita at l.yulita@uea.ac.uk Thursday 21 March

Thursday 21 March

Arthur Batchelor Lecture Broken Pastoral and the English folk: P.H.Emerson and Ralph Vaughan Williams Prof Tim Barringer (University of Yale) 6.30pm, Thomas Paine Lecture Theatre Free entry For more information please email events@uea.ac.uk

Washi: The Art of Japanese Paper Nancy Casserley, Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures 6–7.30pm, Norwich Cathedral Hostry (Weston Room) Free entry, booking required For more information please call 01603 597507, email sisjac@sainsbury-institute.org or visit www.sainsbury-institute.org

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Economics Lectures

The Contemporary Economic Issues Lecture Series take place at 6pm. Admission is free and refreshments are served at the end of each lecture. For more information please email Dr Liliana Harding at liliana.harding@uea.ac.uk.

JANUARY

Monday 18 February

MARCH

Monday 28 January

NHS reforms and hospital competition

Monday 4 March

Financial Innovation and Banking Risks Dr Alper Kara (University of Hull, Business School) UEA Arts 1 building, Lecture Theatre 01.02 FEBRUARY

Dr Farasat Bokhari (University of East Anglia, School of Economics) UEA Arts 1 building, Lecture Theatre 01.02 Monday 25 February

Monday 4 February

GDP: measurement and values

Rip off Britain? Is there sufficient competition where it really matters?

Prof Diane Coyle, OBE (Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford)

Prof Stephen Davies (UEA Centre for Competition Policy and the School of Economics)

UEA Arts 1 building, Lecture Theatre 01.02

UEA Arts 1 building, Lecture Theatre 01.02

The economics of the sex industry Dr Peter Moffatt (University of East Anglia, School of Economics) UEA Arts 1 building, Lecture Theatre 01.02 Monday 11 March

New determinants of collected tax revenue Dr Mihai Mutascu (West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration) UEA Arts 1 building, Lecture Theatre 01.02 Monday 18 March

Monday 11 February

Financial Frictions and Monetary Economics Dr Tatiana Damjanovic (University of Exeter, Economics Department) UEA Arts 1 building, Lecture Theatre 01.02

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An introduction to key resources for social scientists Dr Hershbinder Mann (The UK Data Service, Essex) UEA Arts 1 building, Lecture Theatre 01.02

Inaugural Lectures

Celebrating the University’s newly appointed Professors and their research, these lectures will take place at 6.15pm in the Thomas Paine Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated on the following dates.

Each lecture lasts approximately 45 minutes and will be followed by a drinks reception. For more information please call 01603 592130, email events@uea.ac.uk or visit www.uea.ac.uk/events.

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

APRIL

Tuesday 15 January

Tuesday 12 February

Tuesday 16 April

Nice work: a psychological analysis of daily well-being in the workplace

From Homer to heroin, a public health journey

Lies, damn lies and information in financial markets

Prof Kevin Daniels Norwich Business School, Faculty of Social Sciences Tuesday 29 January

Polar weather, Global climate Prof Ian Renfrew School of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science

Prof Richard Holland Norwich Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Prof Raphael Markellos Norwich Business School, Faculty of Social Sciences

Tuesday 26 February

On the borders between states and religions in south-east Europe Prof Cathie Carmichael School of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities MARCH Tuesday 26 March

Infinite mathematics in the finite world Prof Mirna Dzamonja School of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

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Concerts

UEA Symphony Orchestra and Choir Concert tickets are priced from £5 and are available from UEA Box Office 01603 508050, Prelude Records 01603 628319, St George’s Music Shop 01603 626414, or on the door.

Sonic Arts Concert tickets are priced from £4 and are available from UEA Box Office 01603 508050.

JANUARY Tuesday 29 January

Sonic Arts 71 Performance of Architectural Music by Diemo Schwartz, Sound Kitchen and Sonic Arts Ensemble 7.30pm, The Forum, Norwich FEBRUARY Thursday 21 February

Britten’s Spring Symphony and Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto in G minor, No 1 UEA Symphony Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Sharon Andrea Choa 7.30pm, St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich

UEA Festival of Britten

Monday 25 February

MARCH

Sonic Arts 72

Thursday 7 and Friday 8 March

Performance by Richard Craig (contra-bass flute), Jonathan Impett (Meta-trumpet) and Simon Limbrick (percussion) Time TBC (please check website), Strode Concert Room, UEA

The Sword in the Stone New staged adaptation of TH White’s novel, with incidental music by Benjamin Britten, performed by UEA Drama students and Chamber Orchestra Anglia 7.30pm, UEA Drama Studio

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For more information about any of the concerts listed please call 01603 593948, email musicevents@uea.ac.uk or visit www.uea.ac.uk/mus/musicevents.

UEA Festival of Britten

UEA Festival of Britten

Friday 8 March and Saturday 9 March

Britten Symposium Academic papers, panel discussions and performances, open to all, registration essential.

Times TBC – two day event, UEA School of Music

UEA Festival of Britten

Wednesday 13 March

Saturday 23 March

Sonic Arts 73

Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings

Performance of Trance Map

by Evan Parker (saxophone), Matt Wright (turntables, MAX/ MSP), Sonic Arts Ensemble 7.30pm, Strode Concert Room, UEA

Chamber Orchestra Anglia, conducted by Sharon Andrea Choa, with Pip Eastop (horn) and Robin Tritschler (tenor) Pre-concert talk by art historian, Tim Barringer (Yale) on the influences of the pastoralist movement on Britten’s music 7.30pm, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA

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Art Events and Exhibitions

All events take place in the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts unless otherwise stated. For more information on all of these events and for bookings, please contact the Sainsbury Centre on 01603 593199, email cva@uea.ac.uk or visit www.scva.ac.uk.

Opening times: Tue – Sun 10am – 5pm.

Current Exhibitions Present – Sunday 27 January

Special Exhibition Thomas Houseago: Where the Wild Things Are Free admission Present – September 2013

Special Exhibition The First Moderns: Art Nouveau, from Nature to Abstraction Free admission

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Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

Mini-Studio Family Event

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

Thursdays 17, 24, 31 January

Thursdays 7, 14, 21, 28 February

Thursday lunchtime talks Free admission 1.15pm – 1.45pm

Thursday lunchtime talks Free admission 1.15pm – 1.45pm

Friday 18 January

Mini-Studio

Friday 22 February

Family event

Last Friday Art for Lunch

Tickets £7, £5 concessions, free for accompanying adults, booking essential 10.15am – 11.45am Wednesdays 6, 13, 30 January

ArtsLAb Workshops

Talk Free admission 1.15pm – 1.45pm

ArtsLab Workshops

Friday 28 February – Sunday 9 June

Exhibition: Falling Backwards 10am – 5pm, School of World Art Studies and Museology (SCVA), and public sites across UEA campus Free admission For more information please email fallingbackwardsuea@gmail.com or visit www.scva.ac.uk Fridays 1, 15 February

Mini-Studio Family event

Tickets £6, £4 concessions, booking essential

Tickets £7, £5 concessions, free for accompanying adults, booking essential

4.30pm – 6.30pm

10.15am – 11.45am

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Art Events and Exhibitions

Saturdays 2, 15 February

Saturday Art Club Family event Tickets £8, £6 concessions (includes materials) 2pm – 4pm Sunday 10 February

Craft Club Family event Free admission 1pm – 4pm – drop in any time Creative Studio Botanical Drawing and Painting Workshop

Tuesday 19 – Sunday 24 February

MARCH

Friday 29 March

Object of the Holiday: February Half-term

Tuesday 12 March – Saturday 20 April

Last Friday Art for Lunch

Family event

Exhibition: ‘Washi’ – The Art of Japanese Paper

Free admission

12 – 5pm, The Gallery at NUCA (Norwich University College of the Arts)

Fridays 1, 15 March

Free admission 10am – 5pm – drop in any time Wednesdays 6, 13, 27 February

ArtsLAb Workshops Tickets £6, £4 concessions, booking essential 4.30pm – 6.30pm

Free admission For more information please visit www.sainsbury-institute.org

Talk 1.15pm – 1.45pm

Mini-Studio Family event Tickets £7, £5 concessions, free for accompanying adults, booking essential 10.15am – 11.45am

Thursdays 7, 14, 21 March

Thursday lunchtime talks

Saturdays 9, 23 March

Free admission

Saturday Art Club

1.15pm – 1.45pm

Family event Tickets £8, £6 concessions (includes materials) 2pm – 4pm

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Wednesdays 6, 13, 20, 27 March

APRIL

Family event

ArtsLAb Workshops

Free admission

Tickets £6, £4 concessions, booking essential

Object of the Holiday: Easter Holiday

Sunday 10 March

Craft Club 1pm – 4pm, drop in any time

4.30pm – 6.30pm Friday 16 March

Tuesday 2 – Sunday 14 April

Family event Free admission 10am – 5pm – drop in any time

Creative Studio Botanical drawing and painting workshop £60, £40 concessions (includes materials), booking essential 2012_179FoJUC_IFRinCity.pdf

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Translation

The following Translation Workshops are free to attend.

For more information please email Cecilia Rossi at c.rossi@uea.ac.uk.

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

Wednesday 16 January

Wednesday 6 February

Wednesday 6 March

Working as a professional translator

Poetry in Translation Mini-Series

Translating detective fiction

Dr Debbie Elliot

German poetry in translation, with Martyn Crucefix reading Rilke and Iain Galbraith reading Sebald

Dr Jon Evans

5–7pm, UEA Arts I building, room 3.07 Thursday 24 January

Refreshments provided 6.30pm, UEA Drama Studio

Translating Harry Potter

5–7pm, UEA Arts I building, room 3.07 Wednesday 13 March

Editing

Emeritus Prof Janet Garton

Thursday 7 February

Prof Jean Boase-Beier

5–7pm, UEA Arts I building, room 3.07

Author-translator collaborations

5–7pm, UEA Arts I building, room 3.07

Wednesday 30 January

Title TBC

Christine MacSweeney 5–7pm, UEA Arts I building, room 3.07

Dr Rocío Baños Piñero 5–7pm, UEA Arts I building, room 3.07

Poetry translation workshop

Wednesday 13 February

Christina Piňa

Interpreting politicians

5–7pm, UEA Arts I building, room 3.07

Declan MacCavana 5–7pm, UEA Arts I building, room 3.07 Thursday 28 February

Power play: translation, globalization, and the elite migrant athlete Dr Roger Baines 5–7pm, UEA Arts I building, room 3.07

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Wednesday 20 March

Community University Engagement (CUE)

The following CUE events are all free to attend and open to all.

This series of Literature, Culture and Language Café Conversations will take place at the White Lion Café, 19–21 White Lion Street, Norwich NR2 1PX. Each session will start at 2pm. For more information please email b.epstein@uea.ac.uk or visit www.uea.ac.uk/ssf/cue-east/events

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

Wednesday 16 January

Wednesday 6 February

Wednesday 6 March

American ghost towns

The pleasure and politics of historical fiction

Introduction to Translation

Dr Hilary Emmett

Dr B.J. Epstein

Monday 18 February

Wednesday 13 March

Meet the Pastons, Norwich’s best known medieval family

Who do you think you are and should you care? Genealogy and the pitfalls of family history

Dr Malcolm McLaughlin Wednesday 30 January

Bearing witness: seen but not witnessed Dr Rachael McLennan and Dr Rebecca Fraser

Elizabeth McDonald Wednesday 27 February

Dr Rebecca Fraser

Telling it well?

Mourning autobiography

Thursday 21 March

Dr Rachael McLennan

Norfolk Noir Henry Sutton APRIL Tuesday 2 April

Proving Beauty Dr Ross Wilson

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Other Events

For more information and to book tickets please call 01603 508050 or visit www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk

MARCH

Sunday 10 March

Friday 8 March

Wild Night Out

Managing on the Margins (with panel of speakers including Prof Nitya Rao, Professor of Gender and Development, UEA) Hosted by Norfolk Federation of Women’s Institutes in partnership with other women’s organisations 10am–3pm, Norwich Central Baptist Church, Duke Street, Norwich, NR3 3AP £7.70 (£7.00 WI members) For more information please call 01603 624580, email FedSec@norfolkwi.org.uk or visit www.norfolkwi.org.uk

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Chris Packham Chris Packham goes wild across the country with an entertaining and informative look at some of natures most popular and interesting species.

7pm, Lecture Theatre 1 £15 (£10 NUS)

How to get to UEA

By car: follow the ring road to Earlham Road (B1108) where you will see signs to the University.

By bus: buses 25 and 35 run from Norwich Castle Meadow and St Stephens Street in the city centre right into the centre of campus.

Directions: directions and other information may be obtained from the Security Lodge.

Mailing list

Language courses

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The James Platt Centre for Language and Learning offers classes in Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese and other languages depending on demand.

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