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As well as looking at more conventional subjects, such as French landscape painting and Post-Impressionists, the Barber's friendly team of guides have chosen some slightly more off-the-wall themes to explore as they lead visitors around the painting, sculpture and museum objects of the Barber's collection.
Regardless of your beliefs or opinions in relation to Climate Change, the decisions made at UN negotiations in Copenhagen this December will determine the climate, and essentially the world in which today's students will live their adult lives.
This performance will include The Standard of St George by Alford, Overture to Candide by Bernstein and Star Wars Saga by Williams.
The fifth BEAR user forum, sponsored by Clustervision, will include presentations from IT Services about service development and a number of local users sharing their experience on the BlueBEAR. The University director of IT, Sean Duffy, will outline his vision for HPC strategy for the University of Birmingham and all of the BEAR team will be there to take any questions and address any concerns
This seminar is part of the Current Affairs seminar programme and will be given by Professor Marie Mendras of the London School of Economics
This lecture will be given by Professor Stuart West of the University of Oxford. Professor West is an evolutionary biologist whose main interest is the evolution of social behaviours, such as cooperation, altruism, spite, mutualism, parasite virulence and sex allocation. He uses a mixture of techniques including theory, experiment and across species comparative studies.
This lunchtime concert will be performed by Sarah -Jane Bradley on viola with Anthony Hewitt on piano. The concert will include works by Mendelssohn, Martinu and Prokofiev.
This performance of Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem will be conducted by Daniele Rosina. Taking the unusual stance of consoling the living in the face of loss and suffering, Brahms's moving Requiem creates space for reflection and contemplation.
This seminar will explore the skills and techniques of chairing overview and scrutiny committees or panels. It will also examine what scrutiny chairs need to do before, during and after scrutiny events.
"With hurried steps these women flee from pain and discrimination. Inspired by real facts reported by Amnesty International, the text is a testimony, an accusation, a gesture of solidarity and acknowledgment of all those women who are still prisoners of a forced marriage, of a violent family, of a hustler, of tradition or of age-old discriminations which are so difficult to overcome" Darcia Maraini
