Thursday 30th April
E-Motion
Venue: The Boiler Room
Time: 1.00pm
A new collaboration between a group of PhD students from The Centre for Digital Music (School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science) and Ali Campbell (Drama Department). The Giant Instrument is a sound installation which is activated through movement and was developed at the Centre for Digital Music. Ali Campbell and Applied Drama students will work with community groups including Jewish Elders, Bangladeshi Primary School pupils and young people with physical disabilities, to make intergenerational work through co-authored sound tracks created with The Giant Instrument. This work will be open to the public throughout Arts Week, Monday 27th April - Wednesday 29th April 2 - 4pm with the final presentation on Thursday 30th at 1.00pm, which you must book for.
Representations of Migrants in Photography and Other Media
Venue: Clinical Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building [map]
Time: 3.45pm
Dr John Perivolaris will present his series of images of migration to southern Spain, entitled 'Migrados.' This will be followed by an audience discussion. The event will be chaired by Professor Parvati Nair, Professor of Hispanic Cultural Studies and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Migration at Queen Mary, University of London. Dr. John Perivolaris is a freelance documentary and fine art photographer, writer and researcher, educator, and organiser of photographic events with a background in Hispanic cultural and visual studies. Since 2003 he has worked with migrant communities in Spain, resulting in a growing body of work exploring the migrant experience.
Anthony Sampson Lecture: Britain's Constitutional Reforms: Trivial or Transforming?
Venue: Skeel Lecture Theatre, People's Palace [map]
Time:
6.30pm
A Mile End Group (MEG) Lecture presented by Robert Hazell
Robert Hazell is Professor of Government and the Constitution at UCL and Director of the Constitution Unit within the School of Public Policy. He founded the Constitution Unit in 1995 as an independent think-tank specialising in constitutional reform. Before that he was Director of the Nuffield Foundation for six years, but he has spent most of his working life as a senior civil servant in the Home Office, from 1975 to 1989. He started his career as a barrister, from 1973-1975.