PUBLIC EVENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
LECTURES & SEMINARS
SOCIAL SCIENCES
The 13 departments that form the Faculty of Social Sciences host many varied and interesting events and activities - lectures, seminars, workshops, talks by visiting scholars - throughout the year. Information about many such forthcoming events are listed here. For further information on the Faculty, follow the link on the right.
The School of Architecture (SSoA) School Forum Series
THE THINKING CRAFTSPERSON
TUESDAY AFTERNOONS, 5 FEBRUARY-12 MARCH, 4.00-6.00pm
Floor 16 Lecture Theatre Arts Tower
A brilliant programme of speakers who are all makers in different fields.
5 FEBRUARY - Blanch and Shock (cuisine and design
12 FEBRUARY - Laura Bacon (willow sculpture) and Rachael Matthews (guerilla knitter)
19 FEBRUARY - Jessica Briggs (jeweller)
26 FEBRUARY - Caroline Till (textile futures)
5 MARCH - Michael Eden (ceramicist) and Natasha Daintry (ceramicist)
12 MARCH - Gail McGarva (boat builder)
All welcome. Further information.
THE 9TH EDWARD BRAMLEY SHEFFIELD LAW LECTURE
TOTAL POLICING - INCLUDING USING TECHNOLOGY TO FIGHT CRIME
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe
TUESDAY 26 FEBRUARY, 6.00pm
Richard Roberts Auditorium, Richard Roberts Building, Brook Hill, S3 7HF
For further details and ticket bookings please go to www.sheffield.ac.uk/whatson/edwardbramleylecture
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES INAUGURAL LECTURES SPRING 2013
THURSDAY 14 MARCH, 5.00pm, in the ICOSS Conference Room
THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF THE NORMALS: WHY NON-DISABLE PEOPLE ARE SO MESSED UP AROUND DISABILITY
Professor Dan Goodley, School of Education
WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH, 5.00pm, Room 13.19, Arts Tower.
SPATIAL BRIGHTNESS: WHAT IS IT? HOW IS IT MEASURED? AND WHEY DO WE NEED TO?
Professor Steve Fotios, School of Architecture
A drinks reception will also be held in the Arts Tower.
Entry is free of charge and open to all.
Unless indicated otherwise, lectures will be followed by a drinks and nibbles reception in the ICOSS Foyer.
Please contact Gaynor Hague (g.hague@sheffield.ac.uk) in the Faculty of Social Sciences office if you have any queries about these events.
ANNUAL SHEFFIELD POLITICAL ECONOMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (SPERI) LECTURE
By Robert Peston, BBC Business Editor
THURSDAY 25 APRIL, 6.00pm
Octagon Centre, Western Bank, S10 2TQ
Robert has won numerous awards for his journalism, including Journalist of the Year, Specialist Journalist of the Year and Scoop of the Year (twice) from the Royal Television Society, Performer of the Year from the Broadcasting Press Guild, and Broadcaster of the Year and Journalist of the Year from the Wincott Foundation.
Prior to joining the BBC, he was political editor and financial editor of the Financial Times, City Editor of the Sunday Telegraph and a columnist for the New Statesman and Sunday Times.
He broadcast and published a series of influential reports about the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis.
Further details on the SPERI web nearer the time www.sheffield.ac.uk/speri
CONTESTING EDUCATON AND RESEARCH SEMINARS
Conference Room, ICOSS, 219 Portobello, S1 4DP
This highly popular monthly event attracts well-known speakers of national and international renown. The overarching aim is provide a forum for debate, where it is possible to challenge conventional understandings of education, and rethink commonplaces in educational research.
WEDNESDAY 6 MARCH, 5.30pm
PROFESSOR WENDY LARNER, University of Bristol
WEDNESDAY 8 MAY, 5.00pm
DR MARIANNA PAPASTEPHANOU, The University of Cyprus
Entrance will be by ticket only but it is open to the public. Tickets can be obtained by email from: Lindsey J Farnsworth l.j.farnsworth@sheffield.ac.uk
www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/research/groups/csedpl/csedplsemi