Seminars, Talks and Lectures
Seminars, Talks and Lectures
Queen's welcomes hundreds of visiting lecturers every year for a variety of public lectures. The Former President of India, Professor AKJ Kalam, delivered his lecture entitled "The Dynamics of a Borderless World" as part of his honorary degree acceptance speech on 10 June 2009. Declan Kelly, US Special Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland spoke to QUMS students. As part of a public lecture for National Science Week, Dr Stephen Myers, a Queen’s graduate, will discuss his work on the most powerful and costly physics experiment ever built, known as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Those who wish to develop their knowledge and skills for self-development and to improve organizational quality, competitiveness and performance will find plenty of opportunities in the CPD Short Course Programme.
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES FORUM
23 Feb 2012 4:00PM - 23 Feb 2012 5:00PM
Dr Kerstin Oloff (Durham University)
Caribbean Gothic: Pedro Cabiya’s zombies and Dominican-Haitian relations
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The Scratch of Authenticity
23 Feb 2012 4:00PM - 23 Feb 2012 6:01PM
This paper and musical presentation presents a questioning of the encounter of technological recall and bodily remembrance through a discussion and performance of the Delta Blues of the American South
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After After Cardenio
27 Feb 2012 4:00PM - 27 Feb 2012 6:01PM
The paper will consider the making of a show commissioned by Renaissance scholar, Stephen Greenblatt. Greenblatt commissioned some twelve playwrights worldwide to each make a vernon of the so-called
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11th Annual Sir Bernard Crossland Lecture
27 Feb 2012 6:00PM - 27 Feb 2012 9:01PM
A reception will begin at 6.00 pm, followed by an address at 6.30 pm by Philip Gilliland, Partner at Caldwell & Robinson Solicitors (London) and former Sainsbury’s General Manager for Asia and Sourc
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CCRCB Seminar Series Lecture
28 Feb 2012 4:00PM - 28 Feb 2012 5:00PM
Dr Lukas Kenner, Ludwig Boltzman Institute for Cancer Research, Medical University Vienna.
Title: " News from Stat3 in Prostate cancer and AP-1 in NPM-ALK associated lymphomagenesis"
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Dr Maria McHale (DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama)
29 Feb 2012 1:00PM - 29 Feb 2012 2:01PM
Dublin’s Operatic Life: Joseph Holloway and the Gaiety Theatre, 1880-1922. Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre was the source of much of the city’s musical and, more specifically, operatic life
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The Ulster Group Theatre: From its Foundation to the Festival of Britain
1 Mar 2012 4:00PM -
The importance of the Ulster Group Theatre to Irish and British theatre history has been largely lost; however, from its founding in 1940 through the controversial staging of Sam Thompson’s Over the
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Leverhulme Lecture II
1 Mar 2012 4:00PM - 1 Mar 2012 6:00PM
The Ulster Group Theatre: From its Foundation to the Festival of Britain
Professor Scott Boltwood
The importance of the Ulster Group Theatre to Irish and British theatre history has been largely l
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Elizabeth Hoffman (Faculty of Arts and Science, New York University)
7 Mar 2012 1:00PM - 7 Mar 2012 2:01PM
Semblance, make-believe, and narrative structures: toward a theory of listener embeddedness in electroacoustic soundscapes This is a paper about the roles of the bodies on both sides of the divide. &l
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Leverhulme Lecture III
8 Mar 2012 4:00PM - 8 Mar 2012 6:01PM
The Ulster Group Theatre: The Plays and the Stage
Professor Scott Boltwood
Some of Ireland’s best playwrights of the middle twentieth century were attracted to the Group Theatre because of the q
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The Ulster Group Theatre: The Plays and the Stage
8 Mar 2012 4:00PM - 8 Mar 2012 6:01PM
Some of Ireland’s best playwrights of the middle twentieth century were attracted to the Group Theatre because of the quality and consistency of its actors. The Group benefitted from a seasoned core
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ARK Seminar Series
13 Mar 2012 12:00PM - 13 Mar 2012 1:00PM
Progressing Reconciliation: Setting future priorities for Northern Ireland.
Gráinne Kelly( International Conflict Research Institute, University of Ulster) will present the findings of qualitative
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Professor David Charlton (Royal Holloway, University of London)
14 Mar 2012 1:00PM - 14 Mar 2012 2:01PM
‘The Bouffons in Paris: What Rousseau (and the others) heard and saw’
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Leverhulme Lecture V
15 Mar 2012 4:00PM - 15 Mar 2012 6:01PM
The Ulster Group Theatre: Triumph, Controversy, and State Take-Over
Professor Scott Boltwood
1951 proved to be a pivotal year for the Group, not only did it gain wider recognition in England becau
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The Ulster Group Theatre: Triumph, Controversy, and State Take-Over
15 Mar 2012 4:00PM - 15 Mar 2012 6:01PM
1951 proved to be a pivotal year for the Group, not only did it gain wider recognition in England because of its season in London during the Festival of Britain, but in Ireland the devastating fire at
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Club meeting
20 Mar 2012 8:00PM - 20 Mar 2012 10:30PM
"The secret listeners of Gilnahirk" by George Busby
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R. Luke DuBois (Polytechnic Institute New York University)
21 Mar 2012 1:00PM - 21 Mar 2012 2:01PM
Sex, Lies, and Integrated Digital Media R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a docto
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LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES FORUM
22 Mar 2012 4:00PM - 22 Mar 2012 5:00PM
Dr Jo Crow (University of Bristol)
The Mapuche in a historical context
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Professor Jim Davis (University of Warwick)
22 Mar 2012 4:00PM - 22 Mar 2012 6:01PM
This paper will consider the relationship of transgendered performance in Victorian pantomime - particularly through principal boy and dame roles - to manifestations of gender variance in other aspe
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Two Thousand + TWELVE Symposium
24 Mar 2012 10:00AM - 24 Mar 2012 6:01PM
SONORITIES FESTIVAL
Keynote presentations by Susan Kozel (Dancer, Choreographer and Philosopher) and BioMuse System creator Ben Knapp.
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QUAL Annual Lecture
27 Mar 2012 6:45PM - 27 Mar 2012 9:31PM
Queen’s University Association, London
The President and Council request the pleasure of your company at the
QUAL Annual Lecture on Tuesday 27th March 2012 at the London School of Economics
“Th
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Dr Paul Rhys (Anglia Ruskin University)
28 Mar 2012 1:00PM - 28 Mar 2012 2:01PM
‘Two Dialogues and a Monologue: Music by Paul Rhys’.
Paul Rhys will be discussing two ‘Dialogues’ for solo wind instruments and recorded birdsong; and also discussing a piano solo based on th
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The Way of the Language
29 Mar 2012 4:00PM - 29 Mar 2012 6:00PM
Excavating Silence in the Documentary Theatre.
Dr Nicholas Johnson, Trinity College Dublin
Like many artists within the system of late capital, it is rarely in the interest of documentary theatr
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The Way of the Language: Excavating Silence in the Documentary Theatre.
29 Mar 2012 4:00PM - 29 Mar 2012 6:01PM
Like many artists within the system of late capital, it is rarely in the interest of documentary theatre practitioners actually to confront the society in which they work. A much more common practic
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Daniel Teruggi - A technological trip to GRM
25 Apr 2012 1:00PM - 25 Apr 2012 2:01PM
Since the first days of GRM in 1948, the exploration of music making with recorded sounds implied that sounds could be modified and adapted. This started the first technical developments, mainly mecha
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LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES FORUM
25 Apr 2012 4:00PM - 25 Apr 2012 5:00PM
Dr Samuel Araújo (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Amidst walls, wired fences and armoured cars; connecting sonic memories and heritage in post-industrial society
This event is part of the
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CCRCB Seminar Series Lecture
26 Apr 2012 12:00PM - 26 Apr 2012 1:00PM
Dr Patrice Codogno, University of Paris.
Title: "Autophagy:self-eating is good for you"
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Dr Chris Marsh (School of History, Queen’s University Belfast)
2 May 2012 1:00PM - 2 May 2012 2:01PM
‘Seventeenth-century England’s top ballads: identification and interpretation.’
Dr Marsh is a social and cultural historian, specialising particularly in religion and music. His most recent stu
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The Emergence of Political Song
8 May 2012 1:00PM - 8 May 2012 2:01PM
Eckhard John (German Folk Song Archive Freiburg)
David Robb (School of Creative Arts QUB)
Songs of the 1848 Revolution and the History of their Reception
How does a Scottish anthem (‘For a’
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Benjamin Boretz Aggregates, Symbols, Noise, and Other Metaphors
9 May 2012 1:00PM - 9 May 2012 2:01PM
The data of music do not determine its being. Listening, the act of receptual composition, is the ultimate determinant of musical being. Listening creates what you hear, and what you hear is what you
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WhackingPaddy
10 May 2012 4:00PM - 10 May 2012 6:01PM
Dr Mark Phelan, QUB Drama Studies
This paper examines the enduring image of the “Fighting Irish” in its historical context (as British colonial caricature merged with an emergent Irish-American
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WhackingPaddy, Dr Mark Phelan, QUB.
10 May 2012 4:00PM - 10 May 2012 6:01PM
This paper examines the enduring image of the “Fighting Irish” in its historical context (as British colonial caricature merged with an emergent Irish-American immigrant ethnicity) in relation to
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LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES FORUM
17 May 2012 4:00PM - 17 May 2012 5:00PM
Dr Carlos Yañez Canal (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
Representaciones sociales de las identidades culturales en Colombia
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CCRCB Seminar Series: CR-UK Lecture
24 May 2012 12:00PM - 24 May 2012 1:00PM
The Nobel Laureate, Professor Harald zur Hausen, Germany Cancer Research Centre Heidelberg.
Title: "The Search for Infectious Agents in Human Cancers"
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LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES FORUM
7 Jun 2012 4:00PM - 7 Jun 2012 5:00PM
Dr Clara Sandoval (University of Essex)
Should transitional justice deal with violations of economic, social and cultural rights?
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