Wednesday 2 May 2007
Postgraduate Open Day
Venue : Queens Building Foyer[ map ]
Time : Registration between 2-2.30
The Postgraduate Open Day offers the chance to experience Queen Mary’s outstanding facilities.
Across the afternoon you will have opportunities to meet academic staff, talk to current graduate students and tour the campus.
You can spend the whole afternoon with us, or just to drop in during the day as your schedule permits.
The day closes with a reception.
Collaborative Doctoral Award networking event
Venue : Art Lecture Theatre, Arts Building [ map ]
Time : 1-3
The London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise (LCACE) will host this invite -only networking event at Queen Mary for all current recipients of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Collaborative Doctoral Awards.
This scheme, which saw its first doctoral students beginning in September 2005, are intended to encourage and develop collaboration between Higher Education and non-academic bodies, and provides opportunities for doctoral students to gain first hand experience of work outside the academic environment.
QM students who currently hold Collaborative Doctoral Awards are working with Artangel, Dr Williams’s Library, Glyndebourne and the V&A.
Book Launch: Celebrating Scholarship - Recent Books in Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary
Venue : Senior Common Room, Queens Building[ map ]
Time : 4.30-6pm
This event, the first of its kind at Queen Mary, celebrates the books authored and edited by Queen Mary academics since January 2005.
The event will showcase the diversity of the current research at QM and will be a unique opportunity to find out more about researchers’ interests. Over 100 books have been published in the sector, all of which illustrate the high quality of research that is currently taking place.
Among them, there are prize nominees and winners, books which have created media interest and books which are the first offerings of early stage researchers. From those that have a broad appeal to books which are specialised all seek to enhance and enrich our understanding of their subject.
During the reception you will have the chance to meet the authors and purchase any books.
The Renaissance and the Public : James Shapiro
Venue : Skeel Lecture Theatre [ map ]
Time : 6.00-8.30pm
The Renaissance and The Public is a special colloquium hosted and presented by the Queen Mary Centre for Renaissance Studies as part of a programme of witnessed seminars. These seminars, now in their second year, bring together internationally renowned scholars and faculty at QM (which is very strong in this field) to consider new research on and new approaches to the Renaissance.
The aim is to report and review the latest research and approaches and to communicate them to scholars, students, those from the world of libraries, galleries and museums, and the interested general public.
This colloquium will specifically address how the most advanced research in a number of fields can be communicated broadly and will include discussions of Shakespeare, political ideas and the novelist's interpretation of historical narrative.
James Shapio (Columbia) is the author of 1599: a year in the life of William Shakespeare which won several awards including the Samuel Johnson prize. Jonathan Bate (Warwick) is the leading Shakespearian scholar in the UK, a Governor of the RSC and regular broadcaster. Sarah Dunant is a novelist and broadcaster who has written several works of fiction set in the Renaissance. Simon Winder is a writer (not least on James Bond) and a senior editor at Penguin Books.