City Events March 2016
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Feb
11
Thursday
KPMG Presents: The Best British Mobile Startup
Public
Come along to the London leg of KPMG Presents: The Best of British Mobile Startup 2016.
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Mar
1
Tuesday
Postgraduate Online Fair
Open days
Public; Students; Alumni; Prospective Postgraduates
Thinking of completing a postgraduate course? Attend our Postgraduate Online Fair - an excellent way to find out what studying at City University London is like.
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Mar
1
Tuesday
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Mar
1
Tuesday
Alumni Networking in New York
Alumni Events
Public; Staff; Students; Alumni; Prospective Postgraduates; Prospective Undergraduates
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Mar
2
Wednesday
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Mar
2
Wednesday
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Mar
2
Wednesday
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Mar
2
Wednesday
Professor Dan Wilsher's Inaugural Lecture: Immigration Control and the Control of Immigrants: is there a difference?
Public
This lecture will consider the ways that the UK legal system has developed the 'constitutional' rights of migrants. It will also emphasize, given events in the Middle East, that the treatment of migrants wishing to enter and resettle in Europe (including the UK) may increasingly become a subject of constitutional concern for the courts and governments.
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Mar
3
Thursday
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Mar
4
Friday
Teaching Legal Ethics UK Workshop - Different learning approaches, Values and Wellbeing
Workshops
Public; Students
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Mar
7
Monday
Frankfurt Masterclass and Alumni Networking
Alumni Events
Students; Alumni; Prospective Postgraduates; Prospective Undergraduates; Academics
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Mar
7
Monday
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Mar
7
Monday
Freedom of Information in the balance: Debate
Lectures
Public
Ten years on, the UK Freedom of Information Act is threatened by a government review which could lead to it being dramatically weakened as a tool for journalists and others.
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Mar
8
Tuesday
Women in the workplace, how to shine?
Seminars
Staff; Students
Marking International Women's Day at City.Aimed at both students and staff, this panel event aims to help women plan and become more successful in their chosen careers.
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Mar
8
Tuesday
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Mar
8
Tuesday
Professor Sir Roger Jowell Memorial Lecture: Sexual health and lifestyles in Britain: a window on a changing society
Lectures
Public
The talk by Professor Anne Johnson will draw on what we have learnt from the National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, outlining the factors that have influenced marked changes in behaviour over the last 60 years, and how these once politically sensitive surveys have informed policy.
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Mar
8
Tuesday
International Women’s Day: Is parity possible?
Lectures
Public
To mark International Women's day, City University London invites some of its own leading academics to discuss their research into gender equality, in particular whether they feel parity is possible.
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Mar
8
Tuesday
Shirley Smart Trio: Melting Pot(a cello-based journey around the Mediterranean)
Concerts
Public
A cello-based journey around the Mediterranean.
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Mar
9
Wednesday
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Mar
9
Wednesday
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Mar
9
Wednesday
Cass Dean's Lecture with Andrew Bester, Lloyds Banking Group
Lectures
Public; Staff; Students; Alumni
Dean's Lecture with Andrew Bester. This lecture will provide reflections on values based leadership in the context of the 2008 crisis fall out and broader changes to the Financial Services industry.
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Mar
9
Wednesday
Dean's Lecture City Law School: The Honourable Robert Sharpe
Public
On October 18, 1929, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council broke with a long of authority holding that women were ineligible for public office and ruled that a woman could be appointed to Canada's Senate. This lecture will consider the Persons case in its political and social context and explore the views of the litigants who brought the case, the lawyers who argued it, and the judges who decided it.
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Mar
10
Thursday
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Mar
10
Thursday
Driving change in the delivery of mental health services
Seminars
Public; Staff; Students; Academics
Paul Farmer, Chief Executive of mental health charity Mind will speak at this event looking at a report which sets out a five year plan for NHS mental health services.
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Mar
10
Thursday
Meet alumni in Advertising, PR and Communications sectors
Alumni Events
Public; Staff; Students; Alumni
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Mar
10
Thursday
Olive Tree Forum: ISIS and Migrants in the European Imagination
Lectures
Public
With Zoe Williams, Mette Rodgers and Dr Mattia Toaldo
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Mar
10
Thursday
Slang in translated detective fiction: How much is enough?
Lectures
Public
Plenary lecture in Translation with Dr Daniel Linder, University of Salamanca.
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Mar
14
Monday
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Mar
14
Monday
EntrepreneursTalk@Cass
Panel Discussions
Public
EntrepreneursTalk@Cass (in partnership with Thomson Reuters) are intimate, in-depth interviews with some of the UK’s most innovative and inspirational tech entrepreneurs. Meet them up close and personal at Cass Business School. Reuters Editor-at-Large Axel Threlfall will interview tech entrepreneur Alex Depledge and Tech City UK Chair and investor Eileen Burbidge.
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Mar
14
Monday
Sound and Vision
Lectures
Public
In celebrating brain awareness week Professor Jamie Ward speaks on his research into synaesthesia
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Mar
15
Tuesday
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Mar
15
Tuesday
Baroness Hale of Richmond: Life of a Lady Law Lord
Public
Lady Hale will talk about her career, how she became a “Law Lord”, the challenges she and other women face in the law, her work as a Supreme Court Judge, and why it matters that she is still the only woman there. Please register to attend.
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Mar
15
Tuesday
Reflection of Silence (Art of Improvisation in Iranian and Kurdish Music)
Concerts
Public
Reflection of Silence (Art of Improvisation in Iranian and Kurdish Music)
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Mar
16
Wednesday
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Mar
16
Wednesday
Language taster classes
Public; Staff; Students
City short courses language taster session for students, staff, academics and the public. An evening deigned to give you an insight of the language curriculum short courses.
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Mar
16
Wednesday
Speed Science
Public
This speed Q&A session sees four experts answering questions in celebration of brain awareness week
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Mar
16
Wednesday
Edwards Lecture 2016 with Professor Sarah Spurgeon OBE FREng: Control engineering at the heart of society?
Lectures
Public
The 42nd Edwards lecture discussing the excitement of control engineering and the value it adds to communities and society.
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Mar
17
Thursday
What will the Senior Managers’ Regime mean for you?
Public; Staff; Students; Alumni; Prospective Postgraduates; Prospective Undergraduates; Academics
Cass Executive Education in association with the Risk Management Association and Lysis Financial invites you to join us for a whistle-stop tour of this new landscape.
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Mar
17
Thursday
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Mar
18
Friday
Wellbeing at Work
Public
Dr Carien van Reekum will be talking about the brain emotion regulation and general well-being to celebrate brain awareness week
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Mar
23
Wednesday
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Mar
23
Wednesday
Formal Opening of City TECS Telehealth and Telecare Smart Home Facility
Public
Pleas register to attend the formal opening of City TECS, a purpose built learning hub, designed to simulate a home environment.
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Mar
23
Wednesday
Cass Dean's Lecture with Mark Wilson, Aviva plc
Public; Staff; Students
Mark Wilson will speak on being a good ancestor, covering his business philosophy, what he is in business to achieve – and the responsibility of business to have the maximum positive impact on the lives of customers and society as a whole.
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Mar
23
Wednesday
The Future of Legal Education: Transatlantic Perspectives
Public
This public roundtable reflects on the future of legal education in the UK and US, with an exciting delegation of 5 professors from CUNY law, City’s World Cities Initiative partner and City Law School faculty. A range of staff in academic and professional programmes consider the future of legal education in their field.
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Mar
24
Thursday
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Mar
24
Thursday
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Mar
29
Tuesday
Javanese Gamelan
Concerts
Public
A concert by City’s Javanese Gamelan Ensemble on the traditional Indonesian percussion orchestra, consisting primarily of tuned gongs and drums.
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Mar
30
Wednesday
Political Activity in Russia and Its Determinants
Seminars
Public
Professor David Horton Smith from Boston College, USA will speak at this seminar on Political Activity in Russia and Its Determinants.
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Mar
30
Wednesday
Fighting Talk: Reflections on facilitating the ‘Olive Tree’ Programme
Lectures
Public
In this the last Middle East Forum of the Olive Tree Programme (which closes this summer) Rosemary Hollis and Damian Gorman will discuss what they have learned from their work facilitating cross-conflict dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian students at City University.
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Mar
30
Wednesday
Newsprint - it ain’t over yet!
Lectures
Public
A panel of experts will discuss if this is the end from print journalism