City Events October 2010
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Oct
4
Monday
How un-order can enable creativity: Exploring the Cynefin domains of knowledge
Seminars
Public
This approach to knowledge management challenges more familiar assumptions of order, of rational choice, and of intent (Kurtz & Snowden 2003). In doing so it dismantles many taken-for-granted beliefs about how things are and operate.
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Oct
5
Tuesday
Research to Business
Seminars
Public
City University Research & Enterprise Unit (CREU) invites you to attend a networking evening that will provide you with an excellent opportunity to meet some local businesses and to hear from City researchers who have successfully delivered consultancy projects.
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Oct
5
Tuesday
How far should a reporter go? The lessons of the News of the World phone-hacking story
Panel Discussions
Public
THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL. How far should a reporter push the limits to get a story? Where does working for the public interest end and breaking the law begin?
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Oct
6
Wednesday
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Oct
6
Wednesday
Cross-examination – trick or fair treatment?
Lectures
Public
Our system of justice is adversarial and cross-examination is one of the cornerstones of the adversarial system. It is recognised as playing a key role in testing the evidence of a witness. But what is really going on during cross-examination?
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Oct
7
Thursday
Covering Climate: Is our reporting too cool?
Panel Discussions
Public
A discuss on climate change reporting featuring an expert panel of environment journalists and campaigners.
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Oct
12
Tuesday
Communication aid mediated contributions in children's peer interactions
Seminars
Public
Communication aid mediated contributions in children's peer interactions
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Oct
13
Wednesday
Food Skills Symposium
Alumni Events
Public
A full day Sympoisum on Food Skills led by Professor Tim Lang inlcuding speakers from across the food supply chain.
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Oct
13
Wednesday
'Big Society' Challenges to Commissioning
Launches
Public
Official Launch of the Centre for Better Manager Health and Social Care. A new interdisciplinary Centre at City University London.
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Oct
15
Friday
Alumni Reception, Bogota Colombia
Alumni Events
Public
The British Embassy in Colombia is delighted to invite City alumni based in Colombia to lunch with Alderman Nick Anstee, Lord Mayor of the City of London
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Oct
20
Wednesday
This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Lectures
Public
The lecture will discuss how quantitative analysis of financial history can provide valuable benchmarks for assessing crisis vulnerability and for projecting the course of a financial crisis as it unfolds.
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Oct
21
Thursday
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Oct
26
Tuesday
6 stages: Create, develop, reason, intuit, judge, decide, - so why did we stop teaching people good judgement?
Seminars
Public
In his great book, The Thinker's Toolkit, Morgan Jones says "the more judgement we use in analyzing a problem, the greater is the likelihood of our making an error". OK, so why is there nothing in any books about how to reduce that error?
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Oct
26
Tuesday
Publishing a first novel
Panel Discussions
Public
Former students from City's Certificate in Novel Writing discuss how they published their first novel.
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Oct
26
Tuesday
Clarinet Concert - George Georgiou
Concerts
Public
CONCERT NOW POSTPONED. Part of the LCACE Inside Out Festival, Music alumnus and founder of the Cyprus Clarinet Studio, George Georgiou, returns to City Unviersity London for a concert of old and new music for clarinet.
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Oct
27
Wednesday
The New Nuclear Dawn? - A Carbon Free Solution to Merchant Ship Propulsion
Lectures
Public
The re-emergence of Nuclear Power in the Propulsion of Merchant Ships
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Oct
28
Thursday
Digital Games, Extreme Sports and Fashion Entrepreneurs at CitySpark launch
Launch
Public
CitySpark 2011 - Launch of the City University-wide student competition for innovative new ideas in business and social enterprise. CitySpark launches its business plan challenge with entrepreneur guests
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Oct
28
Thursday