Professor Theodora-Ismene Gizelis
Involving the Other Half: Peacebuilding Operations and Womens Organisations
Monday 19 January 2015, 6.00-7.30pm
Lakeside Theatre (Colchester), University of Essex
Professor Gizelis discusses the role of women in post-conflict reconstruction and how local capacity and social capital can be regenerated through synergies between womens organisations and UN peace missions. Womens roles in peace and conflict are of broader relevance and challenge many common assumptions in studies of security and conflict.
Part of the Universitys Professorial Inaugural Lecture Series, a programme of special events throughout the year celebrating excellence in research undertaken by our recently appointed professors. Themes explored in this years series include translating history for television; optimisation, the science of getting the best out of our resources; the Afro-Brazilian artform, Capoeira; and literature, home and homecoming.
Find out more atwww.essex.ac.uk/events/pil
Free but booking advised
lakesidetheatre.org.uk
arts@essex.ac.uk
01206 873 261
Professor Abdellah Salhi
Algorithms from Nature for Practical Optimisation
Monday 16 February 2015, 6.00-7.30pm
Lakeside Theatre (Colchester), University of Essex
Optimisation is the science of getting the best out of our resources. Optimisation problems are, typically, difficult to solve. Unfortunately they arise frequently. Traditional solution approaches are less than satisfactory. Professor Salhi describes new approaches and shows how they are applied to practical problems as arise in container ports and other contexts.
Part of the Universitys Professorial Inaugural Lecture Series, a programme of special events throughout the year celebrating excellence in research undertaken by our recently appointed professors. Themes explored in this years series include translating history for television; the role of women in peace and conflict; the Afro-Brazilian artform, Capoeira; and literature, home and homecoming.
Find out more atwww.essex.ac.uk/events/pil
lakesidetheatre.org.uk
arts@essex.ac.uk
01206 873 261
Credit: image courtesy of Bonnie Plants
Professor Matthias Röhrig Assunção
The Angolan Roots of Capoeira: Transatlantic Links of a Globalized Performing Art
Monday 9 March 2015, 6.00-7.30pm
Lakeside Theatre (Colchester), University of Essex
Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian art form practiced around the world combining dance, combat, theatre and music. Professor Assunção explores its Angolan origins, the legendary tale of the Zebra Dance, and the combat games and rituals still found today in Southern Angola, despite the devastation caused by forty years of civil war.
Part of the Universitys Professorial Inaugural Lecture Series, a programme of special events throughout the year celebrating excellence in research undertaken by our recently appointed professors. Themes explored in this years series include translating history for television; the role of women in peace and conflict; optimisation, the science of getting the best out of our resources; and literature, home and homecoming.
Find out more atwww.essex.ac.uk/events/pil
Free but booking advised
lakesidetheatre.org.uk
arts@essex.ac.uk
01206 873 261
Professor Sanja Bahun
Home: Notes on Literature
Monday 16 March 2015, 6.00-7.30pm
Lakeside Theatre (Colchester), University of Essex
Professor Sanja Bahun addresses the enigmatic yet compelling affiliation between literature and the concept of home, exploring the subject through the joint lens of disciplines such as literature, visual art, anthropology, sociology, architecture and psychoanalysis.
Part of the Universitys Professorial Inaugural Lecture Series, a programme of special events throughout the year celebrating excellence in research undertaken by our recently appointed professors. Themes explored in this years series include translating history for television; the role of women in peace and conflict; optimisation, the science of getting the best out of our resources; and Capoeira the Afro-Brazilian artform.
Find out more at www.essex.ac.uk/events/pil
Part of the Essex Book Festival.
Free but booking advised
lakesidetheatre.org.uk
arts@essex.ac.uk
01206 873 261
Image
Credit Paul Klee, Revolving House, 1921
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