Talks

YorNight will host a variety of engaging talks on a broad range of topics. Join us on 25 September and discover the amazing research happening all around us!

King's Manor KG/07
King's Manor K/159
King's Manor K/133
York Medical Society
York Explore
Barley Hall

King's Manor KG/07

5.45pm - 6.30pm	It Lives… Will We? The Robots are Already Here!	Colin Williams
6.40pm - 7.00pm	Tropical Forest Conservation, Exploration, And a Tree With No Name	Andy Marshall
7.10pm - 7.30pm	The Accidental War on Nature	Stuart Nattrass
7.40pm - 8.00pm	Understanding Daydreams	Jonathan Smallwood
8.10pm - 8.30pm	The Mystery of Dreaming	Tom Stoneham

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

King's Manor K/159

5.45pm – 6.05pm	Agriculture History in the French Alps	Charline Giguet-Covex
6.10pm - 6.30pm	Hearing the Past: St Mary's Abbey Reconstructed	Ambrose Field, Thomas Krauss, Amelia Gully, Helena Daffern
6.40pm - 7.00pm	Soundtracking Your World	Liam Maloney
7.10pm - 7.30pm	Can You Handle the Truth?	Victoria Carpenter
7:40pm - 8:00pm	FIFA World Cup 1966: Planning for Success	Alex Gillett, Kevin Tennent
8:10pm - 8.30pm	Life in the European Union	Charlotte Burns, Paul Tobin

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

King's Manor K/133

6.15pm-7.15pm	To Infinity and Beyond...	Katherine Leech
7.30pm - 8.30pm	Astronomy is Looking Up!	Emily Brunsden

*You can find King's Manor on the map. Please note, K/133 is NOT wheelchair accessible.

York Medical Society

5.00pm - 5.20pm	Killing Cancer with Cold Plasma	Adam Hirst
5.20pm - 5.40pm	From Black Pudding to Transfusions; The Weird and Wonderful World of Blood	Ian Hitchcock
5.40pm - 6.00pm	Can We Use Antiepileptic Drugs to Treat Cancer?	Will Brackenbury
6.00pm - 6.30pm	Interval with Wine and Soft Drinks
6.30pm - 6.50pm	Fixing the Brain in 'Lazy Eye'	Daniel Baker
6.50pm - 7.10pm	Creating a Healing Campus: Challenging the Perceptions of Mental Illness	Nick Rowe
7.10pm-7.30pm	Interval with Wine and Soft Drinks
7.30pm-7.50pm	Bacteria: Friend or Foe?	Robert Howlett
7.50pm-8.10pm	How to Win the Antimicrobial Resistance Arms Race	Maggie Smith
8.10pm-8.30pm	Incentivising the Pharma Industry To Develop Drugs That Do More Good Than Harm	Mark Sculpher

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

York Explore

6.30pm-7.15pm	From Fact to Fiction: Medieval Archives and Historical Fiction Writing	Pamela Hartshorne
7.30pm- 8.30pm	In Conversation with Bettany Hughes	Bettany Hughes

*You can find York Explore on the map. York Explore IS wheelchair accessible.

Barley Hall

5.30pm-5.50pm	Boomtown Rats: Ancient Rodent Bones from York as Markers of Urbanisation	Dr David Orton, University of York
6.00pm – 6.20pm	Unearthing Industrial York	Rachel Cubitt, York Archaeological Trust
6.30pm – 6.50pm	Apocalypse Now: Preserving a Medieval Master-piece	Sarah Brown, University of York
7.00pm – 7.20pm	Laugh with Us: A Cabaret from a Concentration Camp	Dr Lisa Peschel, University of York
7.20pm – 7.40pm	Yiddish Cabaret from the Rediscovered Finnish-Jewish Archives	Dr Simo Muir, University of Leeds
7.40pm – 8.00pm	From Russia to the Cape of Good Hope: Jewish music bypassing the Holocaust	Dr Stephen Muir, University of Leeds

*You can find Barley Hall on the map. Barley Hall IS wheelchair accessible.