August 2013


01 August 2013, Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Harnessing Light: plants provide food security Workshop


02 August 2013, Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Harnessing Light: plants provide food security Workshop


October 2013


07 October 2013, 6.15 – 7.15pm, Kingsley Barrett Room, Calman Learning Centre Professor Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney)


Vision and Understanding in the Early Modern Era: How Representation Became a Problem


09 October 2013, 8.00 – 10.00pm, Great Hall, University College This House believes that Great Science is a Great Science Fiction


13 October 2013, Town Hall, Market Place, Durham Meet the Fellows


16 October 2013, 09.00 – 5.00pm, Joachim Room, Hild Bede College Navigating Interdisciplinarity


17 October 2013, 6.00pm, Café on the Green, Palace Green Meet the Academic Author


21 October 2013, 6.15 – 7.15pm, Kingsley Barratt Room, Calman Learning Centre Professor Sir Arnold Wolfendale (Durham University) Gamma Rays: the End of the Rainbow, and Beyond


22 October 2013, 8.00 – 9.00pm, Senate Suite, University College Professor Michael Levine, IAS Fellow (University of Western Australia) Catastrophe, Disaster, Darkness: Susan Sontag’s ‘The Imagination of Disaster,’ 50 Years On


24 October 2013, 5.30 – 6.30pm, Birley Room, Hatfield College Professor Tom Mole, IAS Fellow (University of Edinburgh)


Scott in Stone, Byron in Bronze: Statues, Photographs and Poets in the British Pantheon


29 October 2013, 5.30 – 6.30pm, Birley Room, Hatfield College Professor Mark O’Malley, IAS Fellow (University College Dublin) Integrated Energy Systems: Keeping the Lights on in the 21st Century


November 2013


04 November 2013, 5.30 – 6.30pm, Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s College Reading by Linda France Breathing Light: the poetry of plants


05 November 2013, 8.00 – 9.00pm, Senate Suite, University College Dr Juha Saatsi, IAS Fellow (University of Leeds)


What do We Know about the Nature of Light? The Science of Light and Scientific Realism


07 November 2013, 5.45 – 6.45pm, Dowrick Suite, Trevelyan College Durham Bluff


12 November 2013, 5.30 – 6.30pm, Ustinov Room, Van Mildert College Professor Glenn Brock, IAS Fellow (Macquarie University)


Fossil Treasures from the Cambrian of Gondwana: Shedding Light on Early Animal Evolution


13 November 2013, 12.00 – 2.00pm, Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study Brian Bowers


Lengthening the Day: improvements in lighting from classical oil lamps to LED 38 | 39


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