Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2014

Dr Barbara Penner, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture

Marking World Toilet Day (19 November), this talk exposes the global sanitation crisis. Every person in the UK flushes 50 litres of drinking water down the toilet daily. In the rest of the world, 2.5 billion people have no sanitation at all. This talk examines toilet taboos and radical projects that challenge them.

You can also watch this lecture on the UCLLHL YouTube channel at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfuyTDf3zXE

Scheduled to coincide with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans History Month, this event celebrates UCL’s rich and varied LGBTQ histories. The event includes short talks on some of UCL's particularly celebrated alumni. It will also be an opportunity to discuss some of challenges we face when trying to ‘reclaim’ or ‘out’ figures from past who may not have understood themselves in terms of categories such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer.

With contributions from Bob Mills (History of Art Department, UCL), Alex Parsons (English Department, UCL), and Jeffrey Weeks (Emeritus Professor, London South Bank).

Scheduled to coincide with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans History Month, this event celebrates UCL’s rich and varied LGBTQ histories. The event includes short talks on some of UCL's particularly celebrated alumni. It will also be an opportunity to discuss some of challenges we face when trying to ‘reclaim’ or ‘out’ figures from past who may not have understood themselves in terms of categories such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer.

With contributions from Bob Mills (History of Art Department, UCL), Alex Parsons (English Department, UCL), and Jeffrey Weeks (Emeritus Professor, London South Bank).

Scheduled to coincide with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans History Month, this event celebrates UCL’s rich and varied LGBTQ histories. The event includes short talks on some of UCL's particularly celebrated alumni. It will also be an opportunity to discuss some of challenges we face when trying to ‘reclaim’ or ‘out’ figures from past who may not have understood themselves in terms of categories such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer.

With contributions from Bob Mills (History of Art Department, UCL), Alex Parsons (English Department, UCL), and Jeffrey Weeks (Emeritus Professor, London South Bank).

Scheduled to coincide with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans History Month, this event celebrates UCL’s rich and varied LGBTQ histories. The event includes short talks on some of UCL's particularly celebrated alumni. It will also be an opportunity to discuss some of challenges we face when trying to ‘reclaim’ or ‘out’ figures from past who may not have understood themselves in terms of categories such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer.

With contributions from Bob Mills (History of Art Department, UCL), Alex Parsons (English Department, UCL), and Jeffrey Weeks (Emeritus Professor, London South Bank).

Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2014

Dr Claire Thomson, UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society

Fifty years before Borgen hit British TV screens, Danish directors were making films for British audiences. Driven by the need to market Danish produce and culture abroad after World War II, the government funded hundreds of short films in many languages, encompassing topics from pensions to bacon to handicrafts.

You can also watch this lecture on the UCLLHL YouTube channel at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvmnqbc9_cM

Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2014

Professor Tarani Chandola, UCL ICLS Centre

With state pension age increasing, people are retiring from work at an older age. Is this good or bad for your health? Is the choice between working longer or retiring poorer going to affect your wellbeing? This talk examines some of the evidence on this debate.

You can also watch this lecture on the UCLLHL YouTube channel at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAZ8--d61IQ

Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2014

Dr Simon Werrett, UCL Science and Technology Studies

Dr Werrett explores the changing relationship between science and art in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries by looking at interactions between pyrotechnicians and scientists. Fireworks, used to celebrate grand occasions of state, inspired a variety of ideas about the natural world, while scientific advances in physics and chemistry helped to create surprising new pyrotechnic effects.

You can also watch this lecture on the UCLLHL YouTube channel at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J9lm56wDGs

Francis Hopkinson of Left Bank Pictures joins us to discuss the UK adaptation of Henning Mankell’s Wallander starring Kenneth Brannagh. As executive producer of the series, Hopkinson was a key figure in the decision-making processes behind the programmes.

He shares his unique overview of the programmes with us, taking us all the way from the inspiration for the series to the finishing touches. He also joined our discussion of imagery of Sweden in crime fiction.

Introduced by Agnes Broome (UCL Scandinavian Studies).

Nordic Noir Book Club blog:

www.scancrime.wordpress.com

Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2014

Professor Piet Eeckhout, UCL Laws

The growing and ever more intrusive powers of the EU are a constant refrain in political discourse. This lecture will examine what is myth and what is reality, and will discuss the mechanisms contributing to expanding EU powers, and the constraints on such expansion.

You can also watch this lecture on the UCLLHL YouTube channel at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB-n2S8pSUs