T‌alks

YorNight hosts a variety of engaging talks on a broad range of topics, from quantum cryptology to discovering how cheese has been shaping communities!

King's Manor KG/07
King's Manor K/159
Mansion House
York Medical Society
Hospitium
York St John

King's Manor KG/07

5.30pm - 5.45pm	Time travelling to climates of the past	Mark Hodson
5.55pm - 6.10pm	Seeing York through the eyes of our visitors	Zoe Rawson
6.20pm - 6.35pm	GMO: Friend or foe	Robyn Whiting, Sarah Andrews
6.45pm - 7.00pm	The history of the Internet: An extraordinary journey	Savan Vachhani
7.10pm - 7.25pm	Coinage and identity in Roman Britain	Barry Crump
7.35pm - 7.50pm	Quorn – 21st century healthy fast food	Tim Finnigan
8.00pm - 8.15pm	Diagnosing and monitoring Parkinson’s disease using Evolutionary Algorithms	Stephen Smith
8.25pm - 8.40pm	Cheese-story: A short history of alpine dairy	Francesco Carrer
8.50pm - 9.20pm	Quantum cryptology	Roger Colbeck

*You can find King's Manor on the map. Please note, KG/07 is NOT wheelchair accessible.

King's Manor K/159

5.25pm - 5.40pm	Creating citizenship communities	Ian Davies
5.50pm - 6.05pm	Empowering young people to build a future for themselves	Florentina Taylor
6.15pm - 6.30pm	Funding innovation and talent, and sending a duck into space	Jenni Cohen, Astroduck team
7.00pm - 8.00pm	In Between: Poems from the snickets of York	John Wedgwood Clarke, Kate Giles, Damian Murphy

*You can find King's Manor on the map. Please note, K/159 is NOT wheelchair accessible.

Mansion House

6.15pm - 6.30pm	Genetic differences and equal opportunities: Focusing on identical twins	Kathryn Asbury
7.00pm - 7.30pm	The history of Fairtrade, its impact and where next?	Bob Doherty
8.00pm - 8.30pm	Let’s talk about loneliness	Tracey Robbins

*You can find Mansion House on the map. Mansion House IS wheelchair accessible.

York Medical Society

5.00pm - 5.20pm	Development of a blood test for lung cancer	Dawn Coverley
5.20pm - 5.35pm	What’s your brain doing in this place?	Jenny Roe, Chris Neale
5.35pm - 5.50pm	Type 1 diabetes: An immunological apocalypse	Allison Green
5.50pm - 6.10pm	Coma: Retelling the story	Celia Kitzinger
6.30pm - 6.45pm	The long reach of the gene: Genetic influences on childhood behavioural problems	Gary Lewis
6.45pm - 7.00pm	Using laboratory models to understand how ketamine abuse causes harm to bladder	Simon Baker
7.00pm - 7.15pm	Seeing through the eyes of flies	Ryan West
7.15pm - 7.30pm	Improving health with Sound Design	Sandra Pauletto
7.50pm - 8.05pm	Learning about past health, disease and diet from the mouths of skeletons	Camilla Speller
8.05pm - 8.20pm	Kiss kiss, bang bang: When Plasma Physics kisses bacteria goodbye	Angela Privat-Maldonado
8.20pm - 8.35pm	Trembling hands: Parkinson’s disease and Medieval writers	Deborah Thorpe
8.35pm - 9.20pm	Transmission: infectious disease meets contemporary dance	Mike Brockhurst, Becs Andrews

*You can find York Medical Society on the map. Please note, York Medical Society IS accessible through the garden.

Hospitium

7.30pm - 8.30pm

An exotic vet’s life: The work of a 21st century James Herriot in the zoo and wild animal world

Matt Brash

*You can find Hospitium on the map. Hospitium IS wheelchair accessible.

York St John

6.00pm - 6.30pm	Storytelling, storylistening, storyknowing	Matthew Reason, Cath Heinemeyer
6.30pm - 7.00pm	Does York's linguistic landscape reflect the languages spoken in the city?	Clare Cunningham, Dasha Zhurauskaya
7.00pm - 7.30pm	A serendipitous archive	Claire Hind

*Please check each talk's invididual page for location and accessiblity information.