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Wednesday 16 May 2012
Exhibition: A Capital City - London events and anniversaries in 2012
(until 21 Dec 12)
UCL Library Services is celebrating 2012 with exhibitions in the Main Library that focus on key anniversaries with a London connection: Charles Dickens at 200, The Queen’s Diamond…
Buried on Campus
(until 13 Jul 12)
A huge mass of human bones was discovered in UCL during construction work in 2010. This installation displays the investigations undertaken to discover what they are and why they were…
13 Amulets: Basketry Plus
(until 26 May 12)
Basketry Plus is a group of artists and makers who share a common interest in and a passion for basketry. Our aim is to push the concept of basketmaking forward and to introduce the…
Slade/UCL Art Museum 2012
(until 8 Jun 12)
The 4th annual Slade/ UCL Art Museum collaboration began with an invitation to today's artists to develop their own practices while exploring and responding to art from the past. With…
Breaking Ground: 75 Years of Pioneering Archaeology
(until 28 Feb 13)
Breaking Ground is an exhibition created as part of the Institute's 75th anniversary celebrations and will look at how the people, practices, and ideas of London's Institute of…
UCL-Energy seminar: GLOBAL FOSSIL ENERGY: ISSUES WITH QUANTITY, COST AND CARBON
17:45 — 19:00
There is much uncertainty associated with the availability of conventional and unconventional fossil fuels. Although concern has been expressed by some experts about impending…
Thursday 17 May 2012
International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO)
13:30 — 14:00
The suffragettes won the vote and closed up shop. The French and Americans won their revolutions and turned their swords into ploughshares and Pontiacs. The LGBT movement has won…
Activating Stilled Lives. The Aesthetics and Politics of Specimens on Display
(until 18 May 12)
The past 20 years saw an explosion of exhibitions fathoming the relations between art and science. This 2 day conference will address the challenges institutions face when dealing with…
Rick Battarbee Lecture Series: Sediments, Systems and Sustainability
17:00 — 19:00
The global environmental change community is currently re-organising itself around a new research structure called 'Research for global sustainability - Future Earth'. Dominating the…
Coptic Egypt in the Petrie Museum: Trail Launch
18:00 — 19:30
The launch of a new trail uncovering the early Christian period in Egypt through objects in the Petrie Museum. Written by Copt scholar Carol Downer. Copies of the trail will be given…
Friday 18 May 2012
UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture: The Cold War, Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East, and Who is slutty now? Sex, subjectivity and space in SlutWalk UK.
13:10 — 13:55
This week Dr Alexandra Fanghanel (UCL Department of Anthropology) discusses questions of sex, subjectivity and space in SlutWalk UK. Azriel Bermant (UCL Department of Hebrew and Jewish…
Love and Lust at UCL Museums: Treasure Hunt
18:00 — 21:00
Hunt out objects related to love and lust in UCL Museums. Follow clues related to seduction in the animal world, look at the work of amorous artists and find romance in the ancient…
Bright Club: UK
19:30 — 22:00
Bright Club, where researchers and lecturers try stand-up comedy for the first time, started here at UCL and has spread across the country. Tonight eight of the funniest brainboxes…
Saturday 19 May 2012
BA/BFA Fine Art Degree Show
(until 24 May 12)
An exhibition of work by BA and BFA Fine Art students graduating in 2012.
Carry On Cleo at the Petrie Museum
19:00 — 21:00
A talk by John J Johnston on Carry on Cleo followed by a screening of an anarchic interpretation of a famous story from Ancient Egyptian history. Two Britons are sold as Roman slaves…
Monday 21 May 2012
‘The Banana Theory’ Installation Launch
17:30 — 19:30
Come and celebrate the launch of an installation communicating notions of sustainability. This was the winning scheme of a competition between Chelsea College of Art & Design's MA…
The Mummy's Curse: The True Story of an Edwardian Rumour
18:00 — 19:00
Professor Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck) explores the cultural history of the curse of the British Museum mummy from the late 19th Century until the 1920s. This talk will reconstruct the…
Tuesday 22 May 2012
Pop-Up Exhibitions at UCL Art Museum: Crème de la crème –Van Dyck’s inner circle
13:00 — 14:00
Join artist Liz Rideal, Slade School of Fine Art, in revising Van Dyck’s etchings from his project Iconographia, portraits of his distinguished contemporaries. Van Dyck often completed…
Elected Mayors
18:00 — 19:30
With 11 more cities holding referenda on the introduction of elected mayors on 3 May, the debate continues on the relative merits of the mayoral system over the "leader and cabinet"…
Olimpick, Olympic, and Olympian: British re-imaginings between Zeus and Coubertin
18:30 — 19:30
The lecture will explore the revival of the Olympics against the background of modern understandings of the ancient games. With the generous support of the UCL Leventis Fund …
Wednesday 23 May 2012
UK premiere of the documentary film From Garibaldi to Berlusconi, 150 years of Italian History (Andante ma non Troppo. 150 anni di Storia d’Italia).
18:00 — 19:18
UK premiere of the documentary film From Garibaldi to Berlusconi, 150 years of Italian History (Andante ma non Troppo. 150 anni di Storia d’Italia). Written and Directed by Enrico…
Thursday 24 May 2012
International Workshop - Memory Wars in Italy 1799-2012
10:00 — 16:00
Workshop Professor John Foot, UCL: ‘Memory wars in Italy. History and Methodology’.
UCL Chamber Music Club Concert
13:10 — 13:55
The Chamber Music Club Choir will perform mainly a cappella works, including Gabrieli’s O Magnum Mysterium, Taeggio’s Quemadmodum desiderat, Josquin’s Mille Regretz and El Grillo, and…
Friday 25 May 2012
UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture: Self-esteem and eating disorders, and Urban Myth Busting – Did the Maya really collapse?
13:10 — 13:55
This week Carmen Ting (UCL Institute of Archaeology) asks, will the world end in 2012? We investigate popular misinterpretations of the Maya calendar and unveil the secret of the…
Tuesday 29 May 2012
Pop-Up Exhibitions at UCL Art Museum: Melissa Terras Presents
13:00 — 14:00
Dr Melissa Terras, Reader in Electronic Communication in the Department of Information Studies at UCL joins the ranks of our Pop-Up Curators, the latest UCL academic to explore the…
