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Events for 2013

February 2013

Date      Name of Event Type Organiser Venue and Time
05-Feb Dr Sam Coleman, University of Hertfordshire - Qualia and Awareness RIP Invited Lecture Seminars Sorin Baiasu CBA0.060, Chancellor's Building - 6-7.30 pm
06-Feb Brian Doherty and Graeme Hayes, (Aston University), ‘Criminal Trials of Protest Activists’ RC4SPIRE Seminar Brian Doherty CBA0.003, Chancellor's Building - 4-530 pm
06-Feb  Dr Paul Simpson (Keele University): ‘Street Music and the City: Bodies, Rhythms, and Performing in Public Spaces’ Keele Music Forum Nicholas Reyland Lecture Room, The Clock House - 2 pm
11-Feb Professor Susan Read - Living in the shadow of grief. Lessons from people with a learning disability Inaugural Lecture Keele Marketing Team Westminster Theatre - 6 pm
12-Feb Professor Marcia Baron, University of St Andrews/Indiana, Bloomington
Reasonableness
RIP Invited Lecture Seminars Sorin Baiasu CBA0.060, Chancellor's Building - 6-7.30 pm
13-Feb Dr. Poul Rohleder, Anglia Ruskin University - Disability, sexuality and sexual health Psychological Research Seminar Alexandra Kent DH0.31, Dorothy Hodgkin - 1 pm
13-Feb Professor Tony Jefferson (Professor Emeritus Keele University)  - The riots 2011: Another Moral Panic or .... What?  Criminology Research Seminar Evi Girling CBA1.102, Chancellor's Building 3.45 pm
13-Feb Dr. Cinzia Priola, Aston Business School, Aston University - Discrimination in Inclusive Organizations: Silencing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) workers in Italian Social Cooperatives. COM Seminar Liz Parsons CBA1.076, Chancellor's Building - 1-2 pm
13-Feb Composer Trevor Wishart introduces, performs and discusses his electroacoustic epic, Encounters in the Republic of Heaven Keele Music Forum Nicholas Reyland Lindsay Studio Theatre 2 - 2 pm
13-Feb Steve Hewitt (University of Birmingham), “Spotted throughout with red”: the Cold War Framing of English-Canadian Women’s Liberation Groups by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’ DBC Seminar Tim Lustig CBA1.023, Chancellor's Building - 2.30 pm
13-Feb Dr. Dave Lyddon, Honorary Fellow, KMS
'A Historical Perspective on Recent Legal Restrictions on the Right to Strike in the UK'
Employment Policy and Equalities Seminar Carole Thornley DW0.26/0.27, Darwin Building 2-3.30 pm
13-Feb Dr Leon Moosavi, University of Liverpool - Conversion to Islam and Racism in Muslim Communities Ethnicities and Migration Research Group Seminar Natalie Soleiman CBB2.023, Chancellor's Building - 4-5.30 pm
18-Feb Professor Tom Obokata - 'International Law on Human Trafficking Inaugural Lecture Keele Marketing Team Westminster Theatre - 6 pm
18-Feb Nvivo Training PGR Training Session Emma Head PC Lab 3, 10-4.30 pm
19-Feb Dania Thomas - Valuing a life: a gendered reading of statutory motor vehicle accident compensation' CLES WIP Seminar Michael Haley The Moot Court Room, 4.15 pm
20-Feb PhD application workshop Workshop Ceri Morgan CM0.12, Claus Moser - 2-3 pm
20-Feb Andy Dobson - ‘From Deliberative to Dialogic Democracy’ RC4SPIRE Seminar Brian Doherty CBA2.039 - Chancellor's Building - 4-530 pm
20-Feb Nicola Parsons (University of Sydney) - ‘Resisting the novel: Jane Barker and the politics of form’ English Research Seminar Nick Seager CM0.12, Claus Moser - 3.30 pm
20-Feb Dr Jane Essex and Joanne Watts - Trialling an indicator of the impact of two library induction models in higher education Social Policy (Education) seminar Social Policy (Education) seminar CBC0.015, Chancellor's Buidling 1-2 pm
25-Feb Professor Steve Cropper - Reading academic articles and literature reviews PGR Training Session Farzana Shain CBA1.023, Chancellor's Building - 3-5 pm
26-Feb Professor Geoffrey Scarre, University of Durham - 'Sapient Trouble-tombs'? Archeologists' Moral Responsibilities Towards the Dead RIP Invited Lecture Seminars Sorin Baiasu CBA0.060, Chancellor's Building - 6-7.30 pm
26-Feb Dr Andi Aresti (Prisoner Education Trust and University of Greenwich) - Convict Criminology (Title to be confirmed) Crimonology Research Seminar Evi Girling CBA0.003, Chancellor's Building - 4 pm
27-Feb Bulent Gokay - ‘The Political Economy of the Arab Spring’  RC4SPIRE Seminar Brian Doherty CBA2.039 Chancellor's Building - 4-530 pm
27-Feb Dr Gemma John, Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, Manchester - Freedom of Information legislation in Scotland Law Research Seminar Marie-Andree Jacob CBC2.028, Chancellor's Building, 4-5.30 pm
27-Feb Dr. Pamela Qualter, University of Central Lancashire - Loneliness in childhood and adolescents – antecedents and consequences Psychological Research Seminar Alexandra Kent DH0.31, Dorothy Hodgkin - 1 pm
27-Feb Guy Standing, The Precariat - title to be confirmed Sociology/ Criminology Seminar Mark Featherstone TBC, Chancellor's Building - 4-7 pm
27-Feb Peter Jackson (Emeritus Professor of Medieval History) - 'Under Infidel Rule: The Conquered Muslims in the 13th-Century Mongol Empire'   Malcolm Crook CM0.12, Claus Moser - 6 pm
27-Feb Ken Mulkearn - 'The public sector and the labour market: the effects of the Government's incomes policy on jobs and pay' Employment Policy and Equalities Seminar Carole Thornley DW0.26/0.27, Darwin Building, 2-4 pm
28-Feb Applying and contextualising theory: the case of Bakhtin Circle (David
Shepherd)
PGR Training Session Farzana Shain tbc  

March 2013

01-Mar Professor David Shepherd - Applying and contextualising theory: the case of the Bakhtin Circle PGR Training Session Farzana Shain CM0.12, Claus Moser - 2-3.30 pm
06-Mar Tony Bradney - 'The University Law School in 20 Years Time' WIP Seminar Michael Haley CBC1.030, Chancellor's Building, 4 pm
06-Mar Prof. Shona Bettany, Westminster Business School and Dr. Ben Kerrane, Manchester Business School
The material-semiotics of fatherhood: the co-emergence of technology and the contemporary father
COM Seminar Liz Parsons CBA1.080, Chancellor's Building1-2 pm
06-Mar Dr Philip Thomas (piano, University of Huddersfield) performs and then discusses the challenges of performing:
Christopher Fox L’ascenseur (2012), Richard Glover Logical Harmonies (1) (2011), Marc Sabat Nocturne (1996),
Martin Arnold Points and Waltzes (2012)
Keele Music Forum Nicholas Reyland The Chapel - 2 pm
06-Mar Celeste-Marie Bernier (University of Nottingham), ‘Imaging Slavery: The Body, Memory and Representation in an African American and Black British Transatlantic Imaginary’ DBC Seminar Tim Lustig CBA0.013, Chancellor's Building
06-Mar Dr. Tricia Dawson, Employment Policy and Equalities Research Group, KMS
‘The challenges of field research interviews in hard times’
Employment Policy and Equalities Seminar Carole Thornley DW0.26/0.27, Darwin Building - 2-3.30 pm
12-Mar Dr Michelle Montague, University of Bristol - The Intentionality and Phenomenology and Perception (TBC) RIP Invited Lecture Seminars Sorin Baiasu CBA0.060, Chancellor's Building - 6-7.30 pm
13-Mar James Peacock (Keele University), ‘Before the Bridge: Emily Barton’s Brookland (2006) and the Brooklyn Pastoral’ DBC Seminar Tim Lustig CBB1.030, Chancellor's Building - 2.30 pm
13-Mar TBC Sociology/ Criminology Seminar Mark Featherstone CBA0.005, Chancellor's Building - 12-1 pm
13-Mar Prof. Michael Kopelman, King’s College London - Memory disorders (Title to be confirmed) Psychological Research Seminar Alexandra Kent DH0.31, Dorothy Hodgkin - 1 pm
13-Mar Andy Kesson (University of Kent) - ‘Euph culture: John Lyly's Euphues as early modern celebrity’ English Research Seminar Nick Seager CBA2.017, Chancellor’s Building - 2.15 pm
13-Mar Colonel David Benest -  ‘2 Para in the Falklands: 30 Years On’ In association with Keele Alumni Office RC4SPIRE Brian Doherty CBA2.039 Chancellor's Building - 4-530 pm
13-Mar Dr Lizzie Seal (University of Sussex) -‘Haunted by the Ghosts: Edith Thompson and Timothy Evans’ Crimonology Research Seminar Evi Girling CBA0.060, Chancellor's Building - 4 pm
13-Mar Prof. Adam Ockelford (University of Roehampton): ‘The Impact of “Extreme Early Cognitive Environments” (“EECEs”) on the Developing Musicality of Children on the Autism Spectrum’

?Dr Katherine Finlay (University of Buckingham): ‘Using Music to Enhance Post-operative Recovery and Pain Management
Keele Music Forum Nicholas Reyland Lecture Room, The Clock House - 2 pm
13-Mar Professor Carole Thornley, Employment Policy and Equalities Research Group, KMS - ‘Women Workers and Austerity: A new research agenda?’
Dr Kim Mather, Employment Policy and Equalities Research Group, KMS -
‘Police work in an age of austerity: reflections from the front line’
Employment Policy and Equalities Seminar Carole Thornley DW0.26/0.27, Darwin Building - 2-3.30 pm
20-Mar Dr. Cecilia Cassinger, Essex Business School, University of Essex
Draft title: Brands and Violence
COM Seminar Liz Parsons CBA1.023, Chancellor's Building - 1-2 pm
20-Mar Prof. Emeritus Peter Dickinson (Keele University): ‘Berkeley and Friends’

Michael Bell (piano, Keele University) and Karen Radcliffe (mezzo-soprano, Keele University):

Dickinson an ee cummings song cycle, Britten The Poet's Echo (Pushkin), Berkeley Five Poems of W.H. Auden, Dickinson Extravaganzas
? Rebecca Thumpston (Keele University): ‘Hidden Voices: Agential Figures in Britten’s Symphony for Cello and Orchestra’
Keele Music Forum Nicholas Reyland The Chapel - 2 pm
27-Mar Véronique Lane (Keele University), French Culture in Postwar American Literature: Kerouac at the Cinema (1945-1965) DBC Seminar Tim Lustig CBB1.030, Chancellor's Building - 2.30 pm
27-Mar Dr. Flora Cornish, London School of Economics - Psychology in the community (Title to be confirmed) Psychological Research Seminar Alexandra Kent DH0.31, Dorothy Hodgkin - 1 pm
27-Mar Sherilyn Macgregor - title to be confirmed RC4SPIRE Brian Doherty CBA2.039, Chancellor's Building - 4-530 pm
27-Mar Lynn Abrams, Glasgow - title to be confirmed Modern History Research Seminar Shalini Sharma CBB0.030, Chancellor's Building - 5.15 pm
27-Mar Dr. Suzana Grubnic, School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University
Title tbc
COM Seminar Liz Parsons CBA1.080, Chancellor's Building - 1-2 pm
27-Mar Professor Ian Loader (Oxford University)
 “The purchase of security” 
Crimonology Research Seminar Evi Girling CBA0.060, Chancellor's Building 4 pm