Events archive

Description: You are warmly invited to attend our adult nursing offer holder day on 4 April 2018

Description: Talk by Attila M. Tanzi, PhD, Professor of International Law, University of Bologna

Description: Japan's new security legislation, enacted on September 30, 2015 amid fierce debate over its constitutionality, is designed to enable a 'seamless response' to any security situation that may arise. While public debate has been fixated on the constitutionality of collective self-defence, the security legislation enacted in its final form is so heavily constrained that its effective use by the Self-Defence Force (SDF) in a crisis situation remains difficult. This seminar reviews the historical background leading to the adoption of the new security legislation and its contents, which provides the wider context for assessing what the SDF can or cannot do in the event of an emergency that threatens the security of East Asia.

Description: This paper analyses the work of the Himsworth Committee, established initially to look into the safety of CS tear gas shortly after its use in Northern Ireland in 1969.

Description: A top surgeon is accused of a serious crime. Conviction would mean planned operations will not go ahead – and the evidence is far from conclusive. Or is this just another case of someone so important being above justice?The Justice Syndicate is a piece of playable theatre drawing on a jury format. It asks how we make decisions, how we deal with our preconceptions and how much you'd want strangers making judgments about you based on the contents of your phone. How will you vote?

Description: Join crystallographer Professor Brian Sutton and artist Dr Shelley James for an illuminating journey from the colourful tiling patterns of 13th century Alhambra to 21st century discovery of quasiperiodic lattices, via the ground-breaking discovery of left- and right-handed crystals by scientist and printmaker Louis Pasteur.

Description: How should academics deal with what is a potentially misleading binary between 'scholarly' and 'political' activity in order to pursue a 'committed' approach to academic work? Des Freeman, Goldsmiths, University of London, discusses in the second in the 'Reclaiming Higher Education' seminar series, supported by SSPP.

Description: The first in a new seminar series exploring issues of critical importance to the future of UK higher education, hosted by the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy.

Description: Through examining a series of four popular 1990s comedies about a fictional nomadic community called "Careful Village" I examine how comedy engages in a mode of "ludic modernism" in which humour is used to advance a modernist agenda aimed at creating both modern Tibetan subjects, and a set of linguistic practices by which these Tibetan subjects will communicate.