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public events at ucl
TALKS, EXHIBITIONS, WORKSHOPS & MORE
APRIL–AUGUST 2011
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The majority of UCL events are free, open to everyone and require no booking unless otherwise stated. The events listed in this leaflet are just a small selection of what’s on offer – for a full listing please visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/events
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Welcome to Brain Food. In these pages
you’ll find highlights from UCL’s wide range
of public events. For a full listing and the
most up to date information, please visit
our public events website at:
www.ucl.ac.uk/events
As London’s leading multidisciplinary
university, we’re passionate about bringing
our research into the community and
welcoming visitors into UCL to share in our
activities. Everything from talks, workshops
and seminars through to film screenings
and exhibitions is featured here.
Highlights this issue include UCL Lunch
Hour Lectures on Tour at the British
Museum throughout June (see p14-15) and
a rare glimpse inside UCL’s Slade School of
Art and Bartlett School of Architecture with
their Summer Shows, featuring innovative
work by this year’s graduating students
(p9). Or, if you’re looking for free family
activities over the holidays, then visit our
Museums & Collections for some inspiring
and fun days out (p6-8, 18 & 21).
Sign up online to receive UCL’s events
e-newsletter with regular updates about
new events www.ucl.ac.uk/events
public events at ucl
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CONTENTS
2 Events diary
14 Lunch Hour Lectures on Tour
22 Exhibitions
24 Venue locations
25 Getting to UCL
26 Visitor information
events diaryAPRIL–AUGUST 2011
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My BIG FAT AnCIenT eGyPTIAn WeddInGTHUrsday 28 aprIL 6.30–7.30pm
Wedding? What royal wedding?
people have been getting together
for millennia – find out how they did
(or didn’t do) it in ancient Egypt.
Lucia Gahlin will guide us through
Egyptian relationships and look at
the economics of romance.
my big fat ancient Egyptian weddingLucia Gahlin (Friends of the Petrie Museum)[email protected]; +44 (0)20 7679 4138 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie
See below.
petrie, archaeology and eugenics
Dr Kathleen L Sheppard(American University, Cairo)[email protected]; +44 (0)20 7679 4138 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie
An exploration of Flinders Petrie’s
involvement with Francis Galton and the
eugenics movement at UCL by Kathleen
L Sheppard. This talk examines Petrie’s
views on politics and eugenics – views that
would be considered controversial today
– and asks whether these had an effect on
his archaeological work.
Thursday 28 April
6.30–7.30pm
Lecture
UCL Petrie Museum
Doors open from 6pm
Thursday 5 May
6.30–7.30pm
Lecture
UCL Petrie Museum
Doors open from 6pm
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Life in the universe: Chance or necessity?Dr Nick Lane (UCL Genetics, Evolution & the Environment)[email protected]+44 (0)20 3108 2052 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on/
Dr Nick Lane, leading expert on life’s
origins and author of the award-winning
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions
of Evolution, joins us to investigate the
beginnings of life. The ‘meaning of it all’
ultimately hinges on whether we arose by
chance, or whether there is some cosmic
imperative behind our existence.
Forty years ago, geneticist Jacques Monod
arrived at the bleak conclusion that we are
alone, a freak accident in an empty
universe. Since Monod, we have
transformed our understanding of
molecular biology and evolution, as well as
our knowledge of the cosmos and the
conditions under which life appeared.
As a fitting start to the Life Begins season
at the Grant Museum, Dr Lane will
reappraise Monod’s stark perspective on
life’s origins. He shall argue that the origin
of life was easy, thermodynamically nearly
inevitable, but the birth of complex life was
another matter altogether. This event is free
and there is no need to book.
Tuesday 10 May
6.30–7.30pm
Lecture & reception
JZ Young Lecture
Theatre
A UCL Grant
Museum event
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Geeks at the [email protected]; +44 (0)20 7679 4138 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie
Get down and dirty with technology at the
Petrie Museum. Find out more and play
with our virtual museum project, try out our
iPad exhibition, turn objects upside down
on our 3-D programme and check out our
QR-code labels. An informal chance to see
how ancient and contemporary
technologies collide.
Life and death treasure hunt with UCL [email protected]+44 (0)20 3108 2052www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on
Join the chase and follow clues which lead
you around the incredible hidden
museums & collections at UCL, hunting out
intriguing objects and specimens in store.
There are prizes to be won by the team that
solves all the mysteries and locates every
artefact required from art, Egyptian
archaeology, zoology and geology. For
Museums at Night, spend Friday the 13th
exploring the vital themes of life and death
with our amazing collections. Part of the
Life Begins season at the Grant Museum.
Gothic [email protected]; +44 (0)20 7679 4138 www.culture24.org.uk/places+to+go/museums+at+night
Pick up a trail to explore the Petrie
Museum or just come along and enjoy the
museum after work. The Gothic Egypt trail
considers some of the myths and stories
used in late 19th century and early 20th
century horror stories that led to The
Mummy and numerous films since. The
museum is open late along with the Grant
Museum of Zoology and the Art
Collections as part of a quiz on ‘Life and
Death’ around UCL campus.
Thursday 12 May
5–8pm
Late Opening
UCL Petrie Museum
Friday 13 May
6–8.30pm
Treasure hunt &
reception
Chadwick Lecture
Theatre
A UCL Museums &
Collections event
Friday 13 May
6–9pm
Late Opening
UCL Petrie Museum
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE WITH NO NEED TO BOOK UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED 5
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The journey to find and save the world’s rarest primates Sam Turvey (Zoological Society of London), Helen Thirlway (Director, International Primate Protection League UK), Helen Chatterjee (UCL Genetics, Evolution & the Environment), Jessica Bryant (UCL Genetics, Evolution & the Environment and Zoological Society of London)[email protected] +44 (0)20 3108 2052 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on
See above.
population [email protected]; +44 (0)20 7905 2232 www.populationfootprints.org
Human population growth and global
carrying capacity is often regarded as
simply too controversial and difficult to be
tackled through rational analysis. High
profile international speakers from
multinational and government agencies,
NGOs and leading academic institutions
will discuss gender, climate change, the
Millenium Development Goals, migration,
reproductive rights and ageing.
Tuesday 24 May
6.30–7.30pm
Discussion & reception
Darwin Lecture Theatre
A UCL Grant Museum
of Zoology event
Wednesday 25 May
& Thursday 26 May
9am–5pm
Conference
Mermaid Conference
& Events Centre
Puddle Dock,
Blackfriars, London
EC4V 3DB
Pre-booking essential
Tickets £120 or £40
for students
The joURney To FInd And SAve The WoRLd’S RAReST PRIMATeSTUEsday 24 may 6.30–7.30pm
Join us for an evening of light-hearted
discussion as we investigate what it is
like to search for and study an animal
on the brink of extinction. How do
conservation organisations go about
choosing what to save? What is life like
trekking through jungles and swamps
looking for an animal that only exists in
double figures? If you find it, how would
you try to protect it? What are the
challenges in communicating
conservation messages when it comes
to endangered species? With an expert
panel of field researchers and leading
conservationists, join us to celebrate
International day of Biodiversity and
the year of Forests.
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Egyptian medicineDr Carole Reeves (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL)[email protected]; +44 (0)20 7679 4138www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie
Outreach historian Carole Reeves will
introduce us to medical knowledge and
concepts in Ancient Egypt. She examines
the idea of physical and spiritual healing
and considers how much the Egyptians
knew about what is today defined as
medicine.
rainforest animals: Half-term [email protected]+44 (0)20 3108 2052www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on
For half-term and the International Year of
Forests, take a trip to the Grant Museum
and investigate the fantastic creatures from
the world’s jungles and rainforests. Handle
a howler monkey, stroke a snake skin and
discover a dodo with the museum’s brilliant
hands-on activities.
Wednesday 25 May
6.30–7.30pm
Lecture
UCL Petrie Museum
Doors open from 6pm
Tuesday 31 May
– Friday 3 June
1–5pm
Family activity
UCL Grant Museum
BRIGhT CLUB’S PoPPInG UP ALL oveR ThIS SUMMeR
This summer, Bright Club – UCL’s
variety night where researchers
perform stand-up comedy about
their work – will be popping up all
over the place.
Come and join us at our regular
monthly gigs at the Wilmington arms
in Clerkenwell, at the Green man
Festival in Wales in august, and as
part of the Camden Fringe.
Visit www.brightclub.org for details.
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(post) yugoslav Cinema [email protected]; +44 (0)20 7679 8737 www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/events/yugoslav-film
To commemorate the great Yugoslav actor
Bekim Fehmiu, the UCL School of Slavonic
& East European Studies and the UCL
European Institute host a two day festival
of (post) Yugoslav cinema. Events include
premier screenings and debates with
some of the most famous Yugoslav film
directors, as well as the new and rising film
makers from Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia.
Come and discover why Yugoslavia had
one of Europe’s biggest and most
successful film industries, and how it was
related to the state and its tragic collapse.
Could film making be peace making and
how are films now made across the
borders?
pilgrimage, travel and tourism in European and global [email protected]; +44 (0)20 7679 8737www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/events/piligrimage
Millions of people go on pilgrimage every
year and the numbers are increasing,
despite conflicts in the regions where
some of the most famous shrines are
located. This global movement is intimately
associated with another of increasing
significance – tourism. This public
discussion will consider not only the social
and cultural dimensions of this relationship
but also the business of organising and
leading pilgrimage tours in Europe
and beyond.
Tuesday 31 May–
Wednesday 1 June
5–9pm
Film festival
Darwin Lecture Theatre
Thursday 2 June
4–5.30pm
Panel discussion
Roberts G08 Lecture
Theatre
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Bling and beads: Half-term [email protected]; +44 (0)20 7679 4138 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie
Pick up a trail about jewellery in Ancient
Egypt, then make your own bling and
thread beads in the museum.
dress like an (ancient) EgyptianJanet [email protected]; +44 (0)20 7679 4138 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie
Find out more about what the Ancient
Egyptians wore in this practical
demonstration of dress and jewellery by
Egyptology Clothing expert Janet
Johnstone. Warning – we will need
volunteers to try out the clothes! Also, pick
up some practical suggestions on making
your own Egyptian outfits and accessories.
Ideas man: The stranger notions of Francis GaltonDaniel Maier (UCL Museums & Collections and UCL Library Services)[email protected], +44 (0)20 7679 4138 www.eventbrite.com/event/652880784
Comedy writer Daniel Maier examines the
stranger side of the Victorian polymath and
scientist Francis Galton. Take a tour
through some of Galton’s odder
investigations, from measuring insect
hearing to better cake slicing.
Wednesday 1 June
2–4.30pm
Family activity
UCL Petrie Museum
Thursday 2 June
6–8pm
Late Opening
UCL Petrie Museum
Tuesday 7 June
6.30-8pm
Talk/stand up
Darwin Lecture Theatre
Doors open from 6pm
Pre-booking essential
via eventbrite
deGRee ShoW: UCL SLAde SChooL oF FIne ART28 may–2 JUnE & 16 JUnE–
22 JUnE, WEEkEnds 10am–5pm
WEEkdays 10am–8pm
sculptures, paintings, installations and
multimedia works will be on show at the
annual exhibition by the current
graduating year of students from the
prestigious UCL slade school of
Fine art.
+44 (0)20 7679 2313
UCL BARTLeTT SChooL oF ARChITeCTURe: SUMMeR ShoW 2011
2 JULy–9 JULy, 10am–5pm
The summer show is the annual
celebration of work at the UCL Bartlett
school of architecture. Over 450
students show innovative drawings,
models, devices, texts, animations
and installations.
www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture
(check online for further details)
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UCL ChAMBeR MUSIC CLUB ConCeRT SeRIeS
HALDANE ROOM, UCL MAIN CAMPUS
Check for up-to-date details at:
www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music
TUESDAY 10 MAY, 5.30–6.30pm
renaissance and Baroque music for
voices and instruments by palestrina,
monteverdi, Handel and others.
FRIDAY 27 MAY, 1.10–1.55pm a lunch hour concert presented
jointly with rUms music society;
the programme will include
Beethoven’s Serenade Op.25
for flute, violin and viola.
THURSDAY 9 JUNE, 5–6.30 pm End-of-year concert and aGm.
richard strauss’s Serenade Op.7 for
13 winds will be followed by the work
said to have inspired it, mozart’s
Gran Partita kV 36 for similar forces.
refreshments will be served.
Contact: Jill House
+44 (0)20 7679 4231
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a climate of fear: What the past tells us about human responses to climate changeDr Joe Flatman (UCL Institute of Archaeology)[email protected] +44 (0)20 7323 8181; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhlontour
For World Environment Day (5 June),
archaeologist Joe Flatman will use a
series of objects from the British Museum
to explore what the past tells us about
human responses to climate change. The
barrage of conflicting information about
climate change can seem insurmountable
– a problem too big for any one person
to understand or any one community to
manage. Ancient objects from around the
world provide us with insights into how
people in the past dealt with, perceived of,
responded to and ultimately prospered in
changing climates. Archaeology thus also
provides analogies for how modern society
can face the ‘climate challenge’ now and
in the future.
Lessons from the Eurozone [email protected]; +44 (0)20 7679 8737www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/events/eurozone
The Eurozone’s crisis, following on from the
global financial crash, confirmed that large
imbalances in the real economy or the
financial sector are bound to disrupt the
functioning of economic systems.
Preventing or redressing such imbalances
has thus become a central challenge for
economic policy, crystallizing in the efforts
to reform the Eurozone’s system of
governance. Yet whether a more
supranational institutional set-up is needed
or nation-centred ones should prevail is the
subject of fierce debate. This discussion
with politicians, journalists and academics,
will explore this critical issue.
lunch hour lectures on tour
Thursday 9 June
1.15–1.55pm
BP Lecture Theatre,
British Museum
Great Russell Street,
London WC1B 3DG
Free, pre-booking
recommended
Thursday 9 June
5.30pm
Panel discussion
Darwin Lecture Theatre
A UCL European
Institute event
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE WITH NO NEED TO BOOK UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED 1312 SEE WWW.UCL.AC.UK/EVENTS FOR AN UP-TO-DATE LISTING
astrobiology: The hunt for alien lifeDr Lewis Dartnell (UCL Centre for Planetary Sciences)[email protected] +44 (0)20 3108 2052www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on
Astrobiology is a new field of science
encompassing the origins and limits of life
on our own planet, and where life might
exist beyond the Earth. But what actually
is ‘life’? And what are the most extreme life
forms we’ve now discovered on our home
world? Join Lewis Dartnell on a tour of the
other planets and moons in our solar
system which may harbour life, and even
further afield to alien worlds we’ve
discovered orbiting distant stars, to explore
one of the greatest questions ever asked:
“are we alone…?”
alternative Vote referendum Jenny Watson (Chair, Electoral Commission)[email protected]; +44 (0)20 7679 4977 www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/events/public-seminars-10-11/av-referendum
At this seminar, Jenny Watson, Chair of
the Electoral Commission, will give a post
referendum seminar discussing issues
surrounding the administration of the
referendum and the lessons that can be
learned for the future.
Open City London documentary film festival+44 (0)20 7679 4907; www.opencitylondon.com www.mystreetfilms.com
International, Emerging, Best City and
Best Mystreet filmprizes to be won.
Major parallel screenings and panels
including Shoah with Claude Lanzmann
Q&A, Roma in Film and Film in the City.
A major film festival over four days at UCL.
Check online for screening times.
Tuesday 14 June
6.30–7.30pm
Lecture & reception
Darwin Lecture Theatre
A UCL Grant Museum
of Zoology event
Wednesday 15 June
1pm
Seminar
Council Room,
UCL School
of Public Policy
Pre-booking essential
A UCL Constitution
Unit event
Thursday 16
– Sunday 19 June
12–10.30pm
Film festival
Darwin Lecture Theatre
Pre-booking essential
Tickets £5
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30 years and still counting: slowing the spread of HIV in a complex worldProfessor Anne Johnson (UCL Institute for Global Health)[email protected] +44 (0)20 7323 8181 www.ucl.ac.uk/lhlontour
Nearly 30 years on from the first description
of AIDS, there are now over 33 million
people estimated to be infected with HIV
worldwide. Thanks to new drugs, people
with HIV are now living longer and healthier
lives. However, less than a third of people
who could benefit currently get treatment,
and for every 2 people put on treatment,
5 more are becoming infected. This lecture
will look at the successes and failures of
HIV prevention and explore the social,
economic and technical challenges involved
in slowing its future spread.
lunch hour lectures on tour
Thursday 16 June
1.15–1.55pm
Lecture
BP Lecture Theatre,
British Museum
Great Russell Street,
London WC1B 3DG
Free, pre-booking
recommended
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on tourat the british MuseuM
THURSDAY 9 JUNE A climate of fear: what the past tells us about human responses to climate changeDr Joe Flatman (UCL Institute of Archaeology) BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum
THURSDAY 16 JUNE30 years and still counting: slowing the spread of HIV in a complex world Professor Anne Johnson (UCL Institute for Global Health) BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum
THURSDAY 23 JUNEDesirability and domination: Greek sculpture and the modern male bodyProfessor Maria Wyke (UCL Greek & Latin) Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum
THURSDAY 30 JUNEScience meets art: investigating pigments in art and archaeologyProfessor Robin Clark CNZM, FRS (UCL Chemistry) BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum
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During June 2011, UCL’s Lunch Hour Lectures are going on tour to the British Museum. Running since the 1940’s, this bite-sized lecture series showcases UCL’s ground breaking research to the general public.
1.15–1.55pm
Entrance is free, with booking advised.
To book tickets tel: 020 7323 8181 or email: [email protected]
How to get to the British Museum
All lectures will also be available to watch online:
www.ucl.ac.uk/lhlontour
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desirability and domination: Greek sculpture and the modern male bodyProfessor Maria Wyke (UCL Greek & Latin) [email protected] +44 (0)20 7323 8181 www.ucl.ac.uk/lhlontour
This lecture will discuss Greek sculptures
and some of the ways in which their ideal
representations of the male body have
shaped the 20th century strongman and
the bodybuilder, particularly in terms of
their display of power and sexuality. The
talk will include the culture of the circus
strongman, bodybuilding shows, physique
magazines and the post-war craze for
Italian sword-and-scandal films starring
bodybuilders as ancient heroes.
royal anthropological Institute ethnographic film festival +44 (0)20 7679 4907; www.raifilmfest.org.uk
See opposite.
science meets art: investigating pigments in art and archaeologyProfessor Robin Clark CNZM, FRS (UCL Chemistry)[email protected] +44 (0)20 7323 8181 www.ucl.ac.uk/lhlontour
Professor Clark has used pigment analysis
to reveal the secrets of the Lindisfarne
Gospels, Gutenberg Bibles, Greek icons,
forged papyri and the ‘36th Vermeer
painting’. In this lecture he will explain and
explore how the technique of Raman
spectroscopy has helped in the restoration,
conservation and dating of artwork along
with the detection of forgeries.
lunch hour lectures on tour
Thursday 23 June
1.15–1.55pm
Lecture
Stevenson Lecture
Theatre, British Museum
Great Russell Street,
London WC1B 3DG
Free, pre-booking
recommended
Thursday 23 June
2–11pm
Film festival
Darwin Lecture Theatre
and other venues
Pre-booking essential
lunch hour lectures on tour
Thursday 30 June
1.15–1.55pm
Lecture
BP Lecture Theatre,
British Museum
Great Russell Street,
London WC1B 3DG
Free, pre-booking
recommended
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[email protected]; +44 (0)20 7679 3016 www.ucl.ac.uk/openday
An opportunity to visit the campus and
attend subject talks and general
presentations. This event is primarily for
Year 12 students about to make UCAS
decisions. The online booking system will
be open from mid-April 2011 for individual
and group bookings.
The Lost World (1960) on the big screenDr Joe Cain (UCL Science & Technology Studies)[email protected] +44 (0)20 3108 2052 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on
See page 18.
Thursday 30 June
10am–4pm
Main UCL campus
Pre-booking essential
Thursday 30 June
6.30–8.30pm
Film night & reception
Darwin Lecture Theatre
A UCL Grant
Museum event
RoyAL AnThRoPoLoGICAL InSTITUTe eThnoGRAPhIC FILM FeSTIvAL THUrsday 23 JUnE
Exciting programme of over 60 films
from around the world competing for
prizes: royal anthropological Institute
Film prize, Basil Wright Film prize,
Wiley-Blackwell student Film prize,
material Culture and archaeology Film
prize, Intangible Culture Film prize
(music-dance-performance)
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nasty nature: Family activity [email protected]+44 (0)20 3108 2052 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on
Meet some of the nastiest creatures on the
planet with the Grant Museum’s special
hands-on activities. Find out why some
animals are more dangerous than others,
and which are just pretending. With
specimens showing some impressive
natural weapons, discover which animals
are nasty and which ones are nice.
reforming party fundingProfessor Justin Fisher (Brunel University)[email protected] +44 (0)20 7679 4977 www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/events/public-seminars-10-11/party-funding
The Coalition has promised to ‘pursue a
detailed agreement on limiting donations
and reforming party funding in order to
remove big money from politics’. Professor
Fisher will discuss the reform options that
are available and the challenges in
reaching an all party consensus.
Saturday 2 July
11am–4pm
Family Activity
UCL Grant Museum
Wednesday 6 July
6pm
Seminar
Council Room
Pre-booking essential
A UCL Constitution
Unit event
the lost world (1960) on The BIG SCReen THUrsday 30 JUnE
In this classic 1960 remake, join
roguish professor Challenger as he
attempts to prove that dinosaurs
(portrayed by lizards with spikes glued
on) survive in south america. The
dare-devil team of adventurers meet
more then they bargained for, in the
shape of giant spiders, cannibals and
man-eating plants. The film includes
aerial views of the great angel Falls.
The equally roguish dr Joe Cain,
science historian and resident film
boffin, will introduce the film.
part of the Life Begins season at the
Grant museum.
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UCL oPen dAyTHUrsday 30 JUnE
10am–4pm
an opportunity to visit the campus and
attend subject talks and general
presentations. This event is primarily
for year 12 students about to make
UCas decisions. The online booking
system will be open from april 2011 for
individual and group bookings
www.ucl.ac.uk/openday
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alexander and the Greeks in [email protected] +44 (0)20 679 4138www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie
The museum opens its doors late for a trail
on Alexander the Great and the Greeks in
Egypt. This trail explores why there have
been so many recent exhibitions re-
evaluating Alexander’s life. Find out how
Greek culture became Egyptian with a
twist and the impact of Egypt on Greece,
in particular Macedonia.
Big Beasts: summer holiday [email protected] +44 (0)20 3108 2052www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on
From six tonne elephants to six metre
worms, come and investigate the animals
at the top end of the scales. Discover the
longest, heaviest, strongest and tallest
creatures on Earth with the museum’s
fantastic specimens and activities. What
would you do if you met an eight metre-
long crocodile or snake as long as a bus?
Thursday 7 July
5–8pm
UCL Petrie Museum
Monday 8 August–
Friday 12 August
1–5pm
Family Activity
UCL Grant Museum
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Typecast: Flinders petrie and Francis Galtondr debbie Challis
+44 (0)20 7679 4138
In 1886 Francis Galton commissioned
Flinders Petrie to take photographs of
different ‘racial types’ that were present in
or enemies of Ancient Egyptian civilization.
This was part of Galton’s project of skull
measurements and research into racial
difference and the start of a lifelong
friendship between Galton and Petrie. This
exhibition displays some of those
photographs and explores their
contentious legacies, examining and
inviting comment on Galton and Petrie as
well as on the impact of racial theory on
archaeology. It is part of the Legacies of
Galton: Centenary Programme at UCL.
moreover: The slade revisits UCL art [email protected]
+44 (0)207 679 2540
www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/uclart
This exhibition began with a challenge to
all current students at the Slade to develop
their own practice using contemporary
media and contemporary modes of
thinking while taking the time to consider
and appreciate what has gone before.
Moreover presents the work of 21 finalists
– all of whom have appropriated,
undermined and/or marked up past
masters to create individual, new works in
a range of media, including performance,
print, sculpture, and video.
29 March – 22 December
Museum opening times
UCL Petrie Museum
11 April – 17 June
Monday – Friday 1-5pm
The Strang Print Room
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Climate stories
www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/archaeology
Polar bears. Apocalypse. Carbon Footprint.
You might think of these things when you
think about climate change. But how did
the Vikings experience it? Or Henry VIII?
Climate stories explores the fascinating
historic diversity of human reactions to the
changing climate.
stories of the world: London www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/whatson/
stories-world-london
MA students from the Museum & Site
Interpretation module at the UCL Institute
of Archaeology are collaborating with the
Geffrye Museum to develop an exhibition
for their Stories of the World: London
project, part of the London 2012 Cultural
Olympiad programme, Stories of the World.
slade school degree [email protected]
+44(0)20 7679 2313
Sculptures, paintings, installations and
multimedia works will be on show at the
annual exhibition by the current graduating
year of students from the prestigious UCL
Slade School of Fine Art.
UCL Bartlett school of architecture: summer show 2011www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture
The annual celebration of work at the UCL
Bartlett. Over 450 students show innovative
drawings, models, devices, texts,
animations and installations.
From 11 May
Geffrye Museum
A UCL Institute of
Archaeology event
BA Fine Art Show:
28 May–2 June
MFA/MA Show:
16 June–22 June
weekends 10am–5pm
weekdays10am–8pm
Slade School of Fine Art
2 July–9 July
10am–5pm
(check online for
further details)
10 May 2011
– March 2012
Weekdays 9am–5pm
Leventis Gallery
UCL Institute
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1 UCL maIn CampUsGower street, London WC1E 6BT+44 (0)20 7679 2000www.ucl.ac.uk
2 UCL art Collections (strang print room) south Cloisters, UCL Wilkins Building, Gower street, London WC1E 6BTmonday–Friday, 1–[email protected]+44 (0)20 7679 2540www.artmuseum.ucl.ac.uk
3 Leventis GalleryUCL Institute of archaeology, 31-34 Gordon square,London WC1H 0py
4 UCL Bloomsbury Theatre 15 Gordon street, WC1H 0aH+44 (0)20 7388 8822 www.thebloomsbury.com Check online for full Bloomsbury Theatre event listing
5 UCL darwin Lecture Theatre darwin Building, malet place, London, WC1E 6BT
6 UCL Grant museum of Zoology rockefeller Building, 21 University street, WC1E 6dEmonday–Friday, 1–[email protected]+44 (0)20 3108 2052www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/zoology
7 JZ young Lecture Theatre UCL anatomy Building Gower street, WC1E 6BT
8 UCL petrie museum of Egyptian archaeology malet place, UCL, WC1E 6BTTuesday to Friday 1–5pm and saturday 10–[email protected]+44 (0)20 7679 2884www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk
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UCL GRANT MUSEUM Of ZOOLOGy RELOCATION NOTICEUCL Grant museum of Zoology,
has moved!
Come and visit us in the
rockefeller building
21 University street, WC1E 6dE
9 UCL roberts Building (G06, G08,106) Torrington place, UCL, WC1E 7JE Entrance on malet place
10 Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre UCL Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower street WC1E 6BT
11 UCL Chadwick Lecture Theatre UCL Chadwick Building, UCL, Gower street WC1E 6BT
12 Wilkins Haldane roomUCL, Gower street WC1E 6BT
13 UCL school of public policyThe rubin Building 29/30 Tavistock square, London, WC1H 9QU
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Euston square (Circle,
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and City Lines)
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Victoria Lines).
BY RAILmainline train stations near to
UCL’s main campus:
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st pancras International
BY BUSBuses serving Gower street
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ADMISSIONall events are free and open
to everyone with no need to
book in advance – unless
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WATCHING ONLINEIf you are unable to attend
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FURTHER INFORMATIONFor further information please
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TERM DATES3 may–17 June
ACCESSIBILITYUCL aims to provide
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