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February 2012

Public Lecture

14 February 2012, 4 pm

Technology, environment, knowledge, and the public

Classics research seminar

14 February 2012, 4.10 pm

The Ode on Man in Sophocles' "Antigone" - comparison with texts on the development of civilisation

History Departmental Seminar

14 February 2012, 4.15 pm

Collaborative Histories: The SS “Great Britain” and Bristol Zoo’

Music Research Seminar

14 February 2012, 4.30 pm

Frances Eustace: 500 years in the music business (1300-1800), 14 February 2012, 4.30 pm

Theology and Religious Studies Seminar

14 February 2012, 4.30 pm

Franciscan and Dominican views of the Stigmata in the Middle Ages

Jerry Morris Memorial Lecture

14 February 2012, 5.30 pm

Jerry was right (again): sitting can be bad for your health, so how can we change?

Philosophy Work in Progress seminar

15 February 2012, 1 pm

Steve Horvath

Lunchtime Concert

15 February 2012, 1.15 pm

The Shackleton Trio

Archaeology & Anthropology Seminar

15 February 2012, 4.15 pm

Internal Seminar

Drama Q&A

15 February 2012, 4.30 pm

Q&A with Michael Winterbottom

Long Nineteenth Century Network research seminar

15 February 2012, 5 pm

Emerson’s “Nature”: A Transatlantic Concept

Philosophy Formal Methods Seminar

16 February 2012, 3 pm

Peano arithmetic and incompleteness

Botanic Garden talk

16 February 2012, 7.30 pm

Early Spring flowering perennials

Philosophy Seminar

17 February 2012, 4 pm

TBC

Public Lecture

21 February 2012, 4 pm

Class, citizenship and regeneration: Glasgow and the Commonwealth Games 2014

Classics research seminar

21 February 2012, 4.10 pm

Reading seminar: Beyond the Literary

History Departmental Seminar

21 February 2012, 4.15 pm

Life After Nuclear War: Bristol’s (and Britain’s) Secret Plans to Survive World War Three 1950-70

Music Research Seminar

21 February 2012, 4.30 pm

Where to buy Morale's masses and Cipriano de Rore's madrigals in mid-16th century Barcelona: the parameters of urban musicology

Intern Aware & Student Hubs lecture

21 February 2012, 6 pm

Unpaid interns: fair or foul?

Philosophy Work in Progress seminar

22 February 2012, 1 pm

TBC

Lunchtime Concert

22 February 2012, 1.15 pm

The Bristol Ensemble (with members of the University Orchestra)

Research Development Workshop

22 February 2012, 1.30 pm

Let's Talk Research: Pathways to Impact for Research Councils

Archaeology & Anthropology Seminar

22 February 2012, 4.15 pm

Internal Seminar

Bristol Society for the Arts of Asia Lecture

22 February 2012, 6.30 pm

A princely manuscript of the Shahnamah, the Persian epic of kings

Centre for Public Engagement Debate

22 February 2012, 7 pm

Should Bristol have an elected Mayor?

Centre for Medieval Studies Postgraduate Conference

23 February 2012, 1 pm

BIRTHA Medieval Postgraduate Conference 2012: Identity & Image

Philosophy Formal Methods Seminar

23 February 2012, 3 pm

Peano arithmetic and incompleteness

Centre for Medieval Studies Seminar

23 February 2012, 4.15 pm

Celebration and Representation in the Medieval Latin Church: the so-called Liturgical Drama and the Eucharist

Institute for Advanced Studies Salon

23 February 2012, 5 pm

IASIS: 'Narration'

French in Europe seminar

23 February 2012, 5.15 pm

La France à Turin au XVIIe siècle: lexique français de la cour au marché

Philosophy Seminar

24 February 2012, 4 pm

TBC

BUMS Evening Concert

26 February 2012, 7.30 pm

Bristol University Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Choir

History of Art research seminar

27 February 2012, 4.10 pm

Delaroche again! The genesis of "King Charles Mocked by the Soldiers of Cromwell"

Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Lecture

27 February 2012, 7.45 pm

The Bristol namescape: some problematic local place-names of the Bristol area

Classics research seminar

28 February 2012, 4.10 pm

Attitudes to the past

History Departmental Seminar

28 February 2012, 4.15 pm

School Seminar

Music Research Seminar

28 February 2012, 4.30 pm

MA in Composition for Film and Television students' work in progress

Public Lecture

28 February 2012, 7 pm

Preventing Problems in Exotic Pets

Philosophy Work in Progress seminar

29 February 2012, 1 pm

Syano Musyimi

Lunchtime Concert

29 February 2012, 1.15 pm

Chamber concert performed by students of the Music Department

Translation, Reception and Appropriation: Workshop 2

29 February 2012, 2 pm

Making the Sacred Accessible: Early Bible Translation

Archaeology & Anthropology Seminar

29 February 2012, 4.15 pm

The Thera eruption and the Minoan colonies of the Eastern Ǽgean

Public Lecture

29 February 2012, 5 pm

The learning life course of at 'risk' children aged 3-16

Public Lecture

29 February 2012, 5 pm

Approximation: Documentary, History and the Staging of Reality

Inaugural Lecture

29 February 2012, 6 pm

Actively travelling to health: can we improve public health by active commuting?

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March 2012

Philosophy Formal Methods Seminar

1 March 2012, 3 pm

Modal Logic

Public Lecture

1 March 2012, 4 pm

Why does public health spend so much time doing the wrong things?

Inaugural Lecture

1 March 2012, 6 pm

Engineering Sustainable Change

Philosophy Seminar

2 March 2012, 4 pm

TBC

Bristol Opera Society production

3 March 2012, 7.30 pm

Bizet's "Carmen"

Inaugural Lecture

5 March 2012, 6 pm

Diamonds are a scientist's best friend

Classics research seminar

6 March 2012, 4.10 pm

Agamemnon's neighbours - expressions of regional identities in the Mycenaean core area

History Departmental Seminar

6 March 2012, 4.15 pm

Gender and Sex in Modern Pagan Cosmology

Music Research Seminar

6 March 2012, 4.30 pm

Extended vocal parameters and the Electric Voice Theatre

Public Lecture

6 March 2012, 6 pm

Visual effects in film: a fusion of art and science

Public Lecture

6 March 2012, 6 pm

Visual Effects in Film - A Fusion of Art and Science

Philosophy Work in Progress seminar

7 March 2012, 1 pm

Chris Clarke

Research Development Workshop

7 March 2012, 1.30 pm

Let's Talk Research: How to cost research applications

Centre for Medieval Studies Conference

7 March 2012, 2 pm

Theory and Early Texts

Archaeology & Anthropology Seminar

7 March 2012, 4.15 pm

Everything is flux: ancient DNA, domestication and the perils of temporal extrapolation

Drama Seminar

7 March 2012, 4.15 pm

A performance-flavoured discussion

Philosophy Formal Methods Seminar

8 March 2012, 3 pm

Modal Logic

Public Seminar

8 March 2012, 4 pm

Cost effectiveness and chlamydia screening: what we know and what do we need to know - bridging the gap?

Centre for Medieval Studies Seminar

8 March 2012, 4.15 pm

The Blood of Stigmata: Invisible and Visible

French in Europe seminar

8 March 2012, 5.15 pm

Les débuts et l'âge d'or de la francophonie chez les Roumains

Long Nineteenth Century Network research seminar

8 March 2012, 6 pm

From Head to Tale- The Representation of the Material Culture of Big Game Hunting in the Age of Empire.

Seventeenth Joint Postgraduate Conference: Theology & Religious Studies

9 March 2012, 2 pm

Spreading the Word

Philosophy Seminar

9 March 2012, 4 pm

TBC

Centre for Public Engagement Exhibition

10 March 2012, 9 am

Discover 2012

Botanic Garden Concert

10 March 2012, 7.30 pm

Police male-voice choir concert in aid of the Friends' Appeal

History of Art research seminar

12 March 2012, 4.10 pm

New narrative spaces: Ford Madox Brown and pictorial composition

Anne Spencer Memorial Lecture

12 March 2012, 6 pm

Imagining the University

Classics research seminar

13 March 2012, 4.10 pm

Mythography and the Intellectual Landscape of Fifth-Century Greece

History Departmental Seminar

13 March 2012, 4.15 pm

Research Clusters/ PG Training

Music Research Seminar

13 March 2012, 4.30 pm

Research postgraduate students' work in progress

Theology and Religious Studies Seminar

13 March 2012, 4.30 pm

Controversies over Causation in Candrakīrti's Prasannapadā

Philosophy Work in Progress seminar

14 March 2012, 1 pm

Samir Okasha

WUN virtual seminar: World Cinema Series

14 March 2012, 4 pm

Literature and Cinema: Postcolonial Adaptations

WUN Virtual Seminar: World Cinema Series

14 March 2012, 4 pm

Literature and Cinema: Postcolonial Adaptations

Archaeology & Anthropology Seminar

14 March 2012, 4.15 pm

Networks and complexity in social systems: new tools for old problems

Long Nineteenth Century Network research seminar

14 March 2012, 5 pm

“The Hope of the World”: The Herd Instinct, Human Fulfilment and Futures Thinking in 1920s Britain

Inaugural Lecture

14 March 2012, 6 pm

The last monks of medieval England

Bristol and Avon Archaeological Society AGM and Talk

14 March 2012, 7.30 pm

Nesley Farm, Westonbirt - The Homestead of Mettus?

Philosophy Formal Methods Seminar

15 March 2012, 3 pm

Relevance Logic

Public Seminar

15 March 2012, 4 pm

Evaluation of seven common lipid associated loci in large Indian sib pair study

Public Lecture

15 March 2012, 6 pm

The Great Housing Debate

Department of Music Evening Concert

15 March 2012, 6 pm

Celebrity recital: Sir John Tomlinson (bass), David Owen Norris (piano). "Michelangelo in Song"

Penguin Poetry and the 1960s

16 March 2012, 9.30 am

One Day Conference

Philosophy Seminar

16 March 2012, 4 pm

TBC

Public Lecture

16 March 2012, 7.30 pm

Al Alvarez in conversation

Past Matters: Festival of History Talk

17 March 2012, 2 pm

Meet the authors

Elgar's Caractacus

17 March 2012, 5 pm

Elgar's Caractacus: Concert and Colloquium

Symposium

18 March 2012, 10 am

Caractacus: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

Past Matters: Festival of History Talk

19 March 2012, 6 pm

Spreading the word: writing constitutions and making empire

Classics research seminar

20 March 2012, 4.10 pm

"The rediscovery of Thucydides in the French Revolution" & MA presentations

History Departmental Seminar

20 March 2012, 4.15 pm

The Abdication Crisis and Modern British Monarchy

Music Research Seminar

20 March 2012, 4.30 pm

Composing, revising and recording my Piano Concerto

Philosophy Work in Progress seminar

21 March 2012, 1 pm

Chris Gifford

Research Development Workshop

21 March 2012, 2 pm

Research grant applications workshop: an overview (level 1)

Archaeology & Anthropology Seminar

21 March 2012, 4.15 pm

Social learning and prehistoric culture change

Inaugural Lecture

21 March 2012, 6 pm

Increasing charitable giving: what can we learn from economics?

Bristol Society for the Arts of Asia Lecture

21 March 2012, 6.30 pm

Calligraphy in the art of the book in Ottoman Turkey

Music Film Screening

21 March 2012, 7 pm

The Phantom of the Opera

Philosophy Formal Methods Seminar

22 March 2012, 3 pm

Temporal Logic

Public Seminar

22 March 2012, 4 pm

Alcohol intoxication among children in the Netherlands

Centre for Medieval Studies Seminar

22 March 2012, 4.15 pm

Contextualizing the Meditaciones of the Monk of Farne

Institute for Advanced Studies Salon

22 March 2012, 5 pm

IASIS: 'Causation'

Past Matters: Festival of History Talk

22 March 2012, 6 pm

The origins of sex: a history of the first sexual revolution

Public Lecture

22 March 2012, 6 pm

Stones from the sky: a heaven-sent opportunity to talk about science

Twilight Talk

22 March 2012, 6.30 pm

The Psychology of Language

Art International Conference

23 March 2012, 9 am

Art vs. Industry

Philosophy Seminar

23 March 2012, 4 pm

TBC

Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Lecture

26 March 2012, 7.45 pm

Lodges, garden houses and villas, 1500 – 1800: the second residence and its place in the landscape of Bristol and the wider Atlantic world”

Art Exhibition

31 March 2012, 10 am

Ten drawings by Leonardo Da Vinci

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April 2012

Long Nineteenth Century Network research seminar

5 April 2012, 6 pm

Late-Victorian Irish Evictions in Fact, Fiction and Art

Bristol and Avon Archaeological Society Talk

11 April 2012, 7.30 pm

Roman Maritime Economics

History of Art research seminar

23 April 2012, 4.10 pm

Thoroughly Modern Myron: reinventing the Discobolus in the era of the modern Olympic Games, 1896-2012

Music Research Seminar

24 April 2012, 4.30 pm

Melody, interpolation and simultaneous time layers

Theology and Religious Studies Seminar

24 April 2012, 4.30 pm

The Secret of Murugan: An Exploration of the Hindu Mantra Om

BIRTHA Annual Debate

25 April 2012, 2.15 pm

What is a university?

Archaeology & Anthropology Seminar

25 April 2012, 4.15 pm

On new developments in southeast Asian archaeology

Music Evening Lecture

25 April 2012, 5.15 pm

"No dull academic jamboree... but a rich and exciting experience." The 1951 London Season of the Arts

Philosophy Formal Methods Seminar

26 April 2012, 3 pm

Bayesianism

Centre for Medieval Studies Seminar

26 April 2012, 4.15 pm

TBC

Theology & Religious Studies seminar

26 April 2012, 4.30 pm

Christianity and the Death Penalty: Incompatible or a Matter of Prudential Judgement?

French in Europe seminar

26 April 2012, 5.15 pm

L'influence du français en Suède à différentes époques

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May 2012

Drama & Music Lecture

1 May 2012, 1 pm

Revitalising the prom: popular history and performance at the seaside

Music Research Seminar

1 May 2012, 4.30 pm

The culture of synaesthesia

IGRCT Blackwell Bristol Lectures

1 May 2012, 5.15 pm

Worlds on the Wall: the Experience of Place in Roman Art

Centre for Romantic Studies conference

2 May 2012, 2 pm

Romanticism and Secrets

WUN virtual seminar: World Cinema Series

2 May 2012, 4 pm

Cinema and Landscape

WUN Virtual Seminar: World Cinema Series

2 May 2012, 4 pm

Cinema and Landscape

IGRCT Blackwell Bristol Lectures

2 May 2012, 5.15 pm

Worlds on the Wall: the Experience of Place in Roman Art

Department of Music Evening Concert

2 May 2012, 7.30 pm

CoMA Bristol

Philosophy Formal Methods Seminar

3 May 2012, 3 pm

Bayesianism

Music Research Seminar

8 May 2012, 4.30 pm

The moment we've been waiting for: representing post-war British identity in six operas from the Festival of Britain

Theology and Religious Studies Seminar

8 May 2012, 4.30 pm

Panel Discussion on Pope Benedict XVI’s Recent Books (2007-2011) on Jesus of Nazareth

IGRCT Blackwell Bristol Lectures

8 May 2012, 5.15 pm

Worlds on the Wall: the Experience of Place in Roman Art

Egypt Society of Bristol Lecture

8 May 2012, 6.45 pm

The Temple of Isis at Shanhur, near Luxor

Long Nineteenth Century Network research seminar

9 May 2012, 5 pm

Wilde and Nietzsche: Rebels in the Name of Beauty

Research Development Workshop

10 May 2012, 11 am

How to prepare a good research bid workshop (level 2)

Philosophy Formal Methods Seminar

10 May 2012, 3 pm

Bayesianism

French in Europe seminar

10 May 2012, 5.15 pm

L’usage du français chez les élites néerlandaises au XVIIIe siècle

IAS/BIRTHA lecture

10 May 2012, 5.15 pm

Les Misérables: the First 60 Years (1862-1922)

Long Nineteenth Century Network research seminar

10 May 2012, 6 pm

Reading Tragic Landscapes in the Fiction of Thomas Hardy

Theology and Religious Studies Seminar

15 May 2012, 4.30 pm

TBC

Bristol Society for the Arts of Asia Lecture

16 May 2012, 6.30 pm

Jain manuscripts and the Western Indian painting style

Philosophy Formal Methods Seminar

17 May 2012, 3 pm

Decision Theory

Centre for Medieval Studies Seminar

17 May 2012, 4.15 pm

TBC

Philosophy Formal Methods Seminar

24 May 2012, 3 pm

Decision Theory

Centre for Medieval Studies Seminar

24 May 2012, 4.15 pm

TBC

Centre for Medieval Studies Seminar

24 May 2012, 4.15 pm

Working with the York Play Records

Philosophy Formal Methods Seminar

31 May 2012, 3 pm

Decision Theory

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June 2012

Bristol Society for the Arts of Asia Lecture

6 June 2012, 6.30 pm

Shunga, among the best produced books of Edo Japan

Philosophy Formal Methods Seminar

7 June 2012, 3 pm

Game Theory

Centre for Medieval Studies Seminar

7 June 2012, 4.15 pm

TBC

Centre for Medieval Studies Seminar

7 June 2012, 4.15 pm

TBC

Drama & Music Workshop

12 June 2012, 1 pm

Theatre histories, music histories: postgraduate and postdoctoral research workshop

Translation, Reception and Appropriation: Workshop 3

13 June 2012, 2 pm

Charlemagne: European and National Identities

Philosophy Formal Methods Seminar

14 June 2012, 3 pm

Game Theory

Egypt Society of Bristol Lecture

19 June 2012, 6.45 pm

Theban Land- and Waterscapes: sacred and secular journeys within the Nile valley.

Philosophy Formal Methods Seminar

21 June 2012, 3 pm

Arrow's Theorem

Radical Departures: Political Travel Writing in Interwar France

27 June 2012, 9 am

Three-day International Conference

Classics and Ancient History Conference

28 June 2012, 10 am

Thucydides Our Contemporary

Philosophy Formal Methods Seminar

28 June 2012, 3 pm

Arrow's Theorem

Public Seminar

28 June 2012, 4 pm

Modification of emotion perception as a potential treatment for psychiatric illness

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July 2012

Appearance Matters Conference

3 July 2012, 10 am

International Conference on Psychology and Appearance

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September 2012

French in Russia conference

12 September 2012, 10 am

The French Language in Russia

BIRTHA Postgraduate Conference

20 September 2012, 9 am

Reconfigurations: from Papyrus to Post-Structuralism

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October 2012

French in Europe seminar

18 October 2012, 5.15 pm

Francophone aristocratic literature in Bohemia

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November 2012

French in Europe seminar

1 November 2012, 5.15 pm

French in the Low Countries

French in Europe seminar

15 November 2012, 5.15 pm

Les deux sœurs latines : représentations des Français et du français en Italie

French in Europe seminar

29 November 2012, 5.15 pm

French in Turkey

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