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Wednesday 19 June 2013
Digital Frontiers
(until 20 Dec 13)
Ever wondered what the prisoners would have eaten in Jeremy Bentham’s ideal Panopticon building? Or what terrible things he did to earwigs when he was a boy? Or what one of the first…
Faith in Suburbia
(until 30 Jun 13)
This photography exhibition is the outcome of a remarkable collaboration between senior citizens from different faith communities in West Ealing and Hanwell. The project, initiated…
Flaxman and his circle
(until 31 Dec 13)
This exhibition in the Main Library illustrates the world that John Flaxman inhabited in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the story of the adjacent Flaxman Gallery.…
Foreign Bodies Exhibition
(until 14 Jul 13)
Where does the familiar end and the foreign begin? A public exhibition in the North Cloisters by UCL research students, re-interpreting the museum collections through the theme…
London Student Drama Festival
19:00 — 22:00
The inaugural London Student Drama Festival is a celebration of the creative theatrical talent hidden across London universities. The night will consist of 4 London universities (UCL,…
Sculpture Season at the Grant Museum
(until 31 Aug 13)
This event takes place between 1-5pm, Monday to Saturday. Sculpture students from the Slade School of Fine Art at UCL have been invited to create works in response to the Museum’s…
Seminar: ‘Reflections on the Radical Caribbean Intellectual: from Toussaint L’Ouverture to Walter Rodney’
17:30 — 19:30
Professor Anthony Bogues (Brown) will review some of the main elements of the different practices of the radical Caribbean intellectual. This talk will argue that the radical Caribbean…
Timekeeper Installation
(until 13 Jul 13)
Petrie’s temporary Timekeeper Installation explores the many different ideas from across history and culture about what time is and how to picture it. This exhibition is open between 1-5pm, Tuesday to Saturday.
Wednesday: MedTech Week 2013
12:00 — 13:30
UCL Eastman Dental Institute talks: 12.00pm: Anne Young, Reader in Biomaterials 12.30pm: Nick Donos, Professor of Peridontology 1.00pm: Rishma Shah, Clinical Lecturer in Craniofacial…
Thursday 20 June 2013
Do You Really Want To Know?
18:30 — 20:30
Huntington’s disease patients suffer a lethal, incurable combination of Alzheimer’s disease, ALS, and schizophrenia. And anyone born to someone with Huntington’s has a 50/50 chance…
Getting clean energy investment flowing: the impact of energy policy and the availability of finance on businesses' ability to respond
18:30 — 20:00
Faced with a predicted growth in global energy demand of more than 30% by 2035; with the challenge of giving the billions who currently lack them access to modern energy services; and…
Launch of the Timekeeper Installation
18:00 — 20:00
Petrie’s temporary Timekeeper installation launches with a talk by its maker, artist-curator Cathy Haynes. She’ll introduce the project and discuss the many different ideas from across…
Open City Docs Fest
(until 23 Jun 13)
Open City Docs Fest is London’s Documentary Film Festival hosted by UCL. This is a live 4-day celebratory event devoted to exploring the world we live in through the vision of documentary…
Opening Night Gala - 12 O’Clock Boys
19:00 — 20:30
Determination, danger and one boy's dream: this perilous coming-of-age story follows Pug, a wise-cracking thirteen-year-old living on a dangerous Westside Baltimore block. He has one…
SEX ED Films
17:00 — 19:00
UK schools have just been told to include guidance on pornography in classroom sex education. In this special archive screening our panel will examine the uncommon history of this genre,…
Friday 21 June 2013
Bartlett School of Planning Local Infrastructure Event
09:15 — 16:30
In 2011,a local infrastructure seminar at UCL based on a research project which was then implemented in practice attracted over 120 participants. This second seminar will focus on the…
Bartlett Summer Show 2013
(until 29 Jun 13)
The annual celebration of student work from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. One of the world’s biggest architecture degree shows sees over 500 students present an incredible…
Challenging Behaviour
18:00 — 19:30
Asking fundamental questions about how we bring up children with autism, the film follows three-year-old Jack and four-year-old Jeremiah. They are starting their first term at Treetops…
Friday: MedTech Week 2013
12:00 — 13:00
Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science talks: 12:00pm: Catherine Pendegrass, Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering 12:30pm: Robert Brown, Professor of Tissue Engineering…
I am Breathing
18:30 — 20:30
Neil Platt is using voice recognition software to type a letter to his baby son, trying to anticipate everything Oscar may one day want to know about his father. Shortly after Oscar’s…
Matthew's Laws
21:00 — 23:00
This profoundly moving film asks how far we, as a society, are able to make room for people who suffer from conditions within the autism spectrum. It follows Matthew, who has autism,…
Object Lessons: Fifteen Years of Object Journal
10:30 — 18:00
OBJECT (Graduate Research and Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture) was established by research students in History of Art at UCL in 1998 and continues to be produced entirely…
Sherlock Holmes: Past and Present
(until 22 Jun 13)
This shared discussion about the cultural legacy of Sherlock Holmes brings together academics, enthusiasts, creative practitioners and popular writers to examine the historical intricacies…
Tchoupitoulas
18:30 — 20:00
The world is large when you are small. And if you are as curious as the three Zanders brothers, Tchoupitoulas Street in the French neighbourhood of New Orleans makes a whole world of…
The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
20:30 — 22:00
Upon returning to Georgia to make a film about her homeland, Tinatin Gurchiani put out a casting call for 15 to 23-year-olds. When the young hopefuls arrive to audition, instead of…
