Each Wednesday in May the University hosts a public lecture by an inspirational speaker
15 Aug 2013
As part of its commitment to develop research which engages with issues of major real-world significance, the University of Brighton is offering a unique opportunity to hear public lectures by inspirational speakers each Wednesday evening during May.
Wednesday 1st May
6.30pm
Checkland Building, Falmer Campus
Dr Etienne Wenger
Learning in landscapes of practice: recent developments in social learning theory.
Learning is often viewed in terms of acquiring information and skills, associated with some form of instruction. Dr Wenger looks beyond this. Brighton Fringe Booking information
Wednesday 8th May
6.30pm
Huxley Building, Moulsecoomb Campus
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart
Natural resource development and developing economies.
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart has spent most of his life in the oil, gas and mining industry and in developing countries, and will talk on vital issues of the day concerning technology, global industry and the environment. He will cover some of the factors that affect outcomes, both positive and negative, and consider what can be done by companies and governments when things are going wrong. Booking information.
Wednesday 15th May
6.30pm
Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade Campus
Professor Gillian Youngs
Wired reality: Living in a networked world
Professor Gillian Youngs explores how we are transforming the social fabric of our world and our relationship to space and time through the mobile Internet and its varied interfaces. Booking information.
Wednesday 22nd May
6.30pm
Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade Campus
Sir Christopher Frayling
Slaying the Sixth Giant
In addition to the well-known five giants of physical poverty – want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness - said Maynard Keynes, there was this sixth giant - poverty of aspiration, one which the arts could help to alleviate. Booking information.
Wednesday 29th May
6pm
Mayfield House, Falmer Campus
SASS Annual Public Lecture
Professor Ian Parker
‘Neo-liberalism and the strong state in higher education: psychology today’
The university as an institution has been subject to neo-liberal reforms, with an intensification of surveillance and control and an intensification of interest in individual subjectivity. Quantity and quality in the service of power: welcome to the ‘change agenda’. Booking information.
