Event title:

CANCELLED _ Culture Café - 'From Hull to South Georgia: the Antarctic from the heroic age of adventure to the present-day'.

Event details

Event details

Date:
Saturday, 16th March 2019
Time:
11:00 - 13:00
Location:
Allam Lecture Theatre
Campus:
Hull Campus
Categories:
  Culture Cafe - 'Gems of Hull'  

Event description

Event description

This talk is now unfortunately cancelled due to illness.

We will re-advertise the original talk if we are able and will let all who originally registered know.

All those who originally booked on have been informed that this event has been cancelled.

As an alternative, you may be interested in the following two semi-related free events that the University is also hosting during March.

1. 'Mapping the Anthropocene impact on the biosphere' -  John & Anne Phillips Lecture - Thurs 14 March 2019, 6pm to 7.30pm with Professor Mark Williams, alumnus of the University of Hull, Allam Lecture Theatre, Esk Building, University of Hull.   

Most species on planet Earth have ecological ranges defined by factors such as latitudinal changes in surface temperature and rainfall, or geographical isolation. These patterns have evolved over millions, sometimes tens of millions of years. This natural pattern is being overprinted by the actions of Homo sapiens, which has made the whole Earth its ecological range.... click here for more details 

2. 'Yorkshire Geology, Landscapes and Literature' - Full Day Symposium, 9.30am to 5.30pm, Saturday 23 March 2019. Allam Medical Building, Lecture Theatre 1, University of Hull.  

Over the centuries, the diversity and natural beauty of Yorkshire's landscapes and geology have inspired and influenced many celebrated writers and observers, including at least two Poets Laureate (Wordsworth and Ted Hughes), significant novelists (e.g. the Brontës, Winifred Holtby), writers on geology (e.g. Adam Sedgwick and John Phillips) and travellers, with many contemporary poets and writers continuing this tradition. Our full day programme of talks and readings brings together leading experts in geoscience, English literature and Yorkshire’s landscape and culture. Speakers include (in alphabetical order): Patrick Boylan, Rose Horspool, Nina Morgan, Roger Osborne, Mike Stephenson, Jane Thomas, Hugh Torrens and Catherine Wynne. Prose and poetry readings on the theme will be drawn from the writings of: Anne and Emily Brontë, Celia Feinnes, John Hutton, Winifred Holtby, Ted Hughes, John Leland, Édouard-Alfred Martel, Meaux Abbey Chronicle, Michael McKimm, Blake Morrison, John Phillips, Sylvia Plath, J B Priestley, Adam Sedgwick, Thomas Sheppard, Colin Speakman and William Wordsworth. 

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Cancelled - Culture Café – ‘GEMS of Hull: Geology, Environment, Marine Science and Us Series 2. 

Title: ''From Hull to South Georgia: the Antarctic from the heroic age of adventure to the present-day'. 

Speaker: Dr Cath Waller, Lecturer, School of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering.

Date: Saturday March 16th, 2019 

Venue: University of Hull, Business School, Allam Lecture Theatre

Time: 11am – 1pm

Abstract:

Dr Waller’s talk will explore the Antarctic from the heroic age of adventure to her very pertinent present-day research into the impact and threat of microplastics. There may even be arctic critters for you to see! 

Speaker Biography:

Dr Waller developed a passion for marine biology after learning to dive. Her work is mainly on or around the Antarctic Peninsula and Scotia Arc Islands. This is one of the fastest warming places on the planet and little is known about what is going to happen to the plants and animals that live there.

She is interested in how changes in environmental conditions and increasing human activity will affect the native species and how non-native species may alter the ecosystems.

https://www.hull.ac.uk/faculties/staff-profiles/cath-waller.aspx

https://www.hull.ac.uk/work-with-us/research/case-studies/microplastics-threaten-the-antarctic.aspx

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969717308148)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catherine_Waller

Cost: Free Admission – All welcome but booking is required in order to guarantee a place and to enable us to ensure we have an adequately sized room booked for the session. 

Enquiries:  Jackie McAndrew - Monday to Weds - OpenCampus work days. 

Email: opencampus@hull.ac.uk

Telephone: 01482 466585

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About the OpenCampus Programme

The OpenCampus Programme is the University of Hull's open access adult lifelong learning education programme.  You can attend one session or all the sessions in a series.  Sessions are informal and friendly and are not traditional public lectures.  We do not charge for admission to sessions so we utilise the University's normal teaching spaces when they are not required for student teaching (lecture theatres and seminar rooms).  We try to provide access to one of the University Cafes as part of the experience, but cannot guarantee this. We try to time sessions to meet the needs of the majority of our learners. We like to accommodate the needs of all attendees (seen and unseen needs) by having a comfort break at each session.   We may offer specialist one off sessions for which we may make a charge.

We may also share other events at the University that may be of interest to our typical OpenCampus learners. 

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