Open lectures: Spring term 2021

Join Ian Kirkpatrick in this Masterclass presentation as he explores the issues around consultancy including asking if it brings improvements such as increased efficiency and if not, how can we explain its huge growth?

Fatima Gailani (Afghanistan Government negotiator) and Mina Al-Oraibi (The National) discuss the importance of women’s role in the peace negotiations in Afghanistan.

An advocate of allyship, in this masterclass, Reetu will talk about the tangible ways forward for identifying actionable, bite-sized, doable actions she helped CMI identify to move the dial on race.

This event is part of the West Yorkshire Innovation Festival and will showcase how The University of York can assist business in building more secure and sustainable futures in a changing world.

The ocean belongs to all of us, so we all have a role to play in helping to ensure it has a sustainable future.

In this presentation Judith Herrin will explore the role of Ravenna, imperial capital from AD 402, until its fall to the Lombards in 751, as a catalyst in the development of what we can now identify as European features.

Amnesty International Moscow Office Director Natalia Zviagina discusses how the recent civil protests in Russia are affecting human rights, civil society, and human rights defenders acting in those spaces. What is the outlook going forward?

Linda Scott discusses the Double X Economy - a new vision of women’s rights, based on economic liberty

Amelia Gentleman, Guardian journalist and author of The Windrush Betrayal, Exposing the Hostile Environment, asks why justice remains elusive for so many of those affected by the Windrush scandal

CAHR present screenings of a selection of filmed interviews from a range of women about the impact of Covid on their lives

Join Joe Walker, celebrated film-editor and Academy Award, Bafta and ACE Eddie Award nominee, to discover his extraordinary career and experience in the world of film-making

This film follows an Italian family as they leave their hometown and move to Germany in the sixties in search of a better life, and open the first pizza restaurant in their area

Sara Laschever discusses the groundbreaking classic that explores how women can and should negotiate for parity in their workplaces, homes, and beyond.

Ugandan youth leader and human rights defender Johncation Muhindo discusses the January 2021 Ugandan election

Jody Day shares what she has learned about how to understand, support and advocate for those grieving this ‘living loss’ of childlessness

A talk from one of the most influential essayists and thinkers writing today

Learn how Ireland’s first circular economy innovation network dedicated to transforming manufacturers and their supply-chains is seeking to close Ireland’s so-called “circular innovation gap”.

Join YUSU LGBTQ+ on Friday 26th February for a special guest talk and Q&A from best-selling author Matthew Todd!

Hear from three of the Centre for Applied Human Rights' former visiting human rights defender fellows to reflect on what defending LGBT+ rights looks like in the time of a global pandemic.

Join Joanna Norman, Director of the V&A Research Institute, to delve into the fascinating world of museum research

Cynthia Davis interrogates the impact of the pandemic on our workforce now and into the future, post-Covid world.

What links a new approach to transistor design, Schubert's celebrated C major quintet and the poetry of Emily Dickinson?

It is now 29 years since the Rio Earth Summit and 33 years since the start of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which called for immediate action. This talk will take us back more than 200 years...

Join YUSU LGBTQ+ on Friday 19th February for a special guest talk and Q&A from Jonathan Blake!

Join Dr Sara De Jong and Isabella Hughes to learn about the unexpected role of reforestation events in Kenya

How can resilience can play a role in dealing with the stress of a pandemic?

Join Dr Thomas Davies for a talk on the psychology behind meat consumption and other environmental concerns

Join J. A. Mensah as she launches her debut novel, 'Castles and Cobwebs' - in conversation with Sara Hunt

In this masterclass Peter Lunt will present his reflections on how this can be done effectively using the example of his time leading the Industrial Energy Efficiency Network in Airbus over the past eight years.

Dr David Luke from the University of Greenwich discusses both the scientific and the mystical understanding of people's experiences of visionary encounters with discarnate beings

Join Sue Mendus for a discussion about the practicalities and the politics of fire at York Minster

In the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 and the protests that followed, academics across the social sciences have been forced to scrutinise their own biases and racism with their own disciplines and institutions

Treating Water from one of the most complex water sources in the world to provide water to the mega city of Metro Manila, Philippines

Join Will Dixon, Head of Future Networks and Technology at the World Economic Forum, to delve into the fascinating world of cybersecurity. Explore how Will is fighting cybercriminals and hear about his career path to this exciting and crucial role.

Discover how a life-changing adventure to Australia led an architect and a scientist into the world of distillation, culminating in the self-building of a sustainable distillery near York with a strong belief in the circular economy.

Join the York Psychedelics Society for a talk and Q&A on the rise of psychedelic medical treatments

Matt Lynch explores the world of growing a business as part of our masterclass series.

Join us for York’s annual Holocaust Memorial Day Civic Event, a free online event, reflecting on the national theme for 2021, Be the Light in the Darkness.

Siemens Congleton discuss changing the way they think about manufacturing processes and their underlying technologies

Baroness Hale has had a distinguished career in courts, starting in the family division of the High Court of Justice and then working her way up. Hear her fascinating story.

In theory, refugees have a wide range of rights. In practice, these rights are routinely violated. Emily E. Arnold-Fernández discusses how we change this.

What is a supercomputer? What is it used for?