Wednesday 28th January – SCR Buffet Lunch
13.00 – Lakeside Room. Please sign up by 11am on the day at Van Mildert Reception.
Thursday 29th January – Inaugural Lecture – Professor Stephen Gorard (School of Education, Durham University.) ‘Equal opportunities or equal outcomes? Which is fairer, and other puzzles for Education’
This is a lecture about the struggle to provide and use evidence to help make education fairer. It will lay out some principles of what we mean by ‘fair’ and how we can best create useful evidence, offering illustrations from 17 years of research. The focus will be on two programmes funded by the ESRC – the nature and impact of school in-takes, and the determinants of lifelong learning for adults.
Stephen Gorard is Professor of Education and Well-being in Durham University’s School of Education, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His research concerns equity and effectiveness in education, where education is considered as a life-long process, and encompassing evidence from psychology, sociology, geography, economics, and health studies. He is the author of over 1,000 books, papers and other articles.
17.30 – Drinks Reception – College Reception Foyer
18.00 – Lecture – Ustinov Room
Monday 2nd February – SCR Anniversary Lecture Series – Professor Richard Pancost (Bristol University) – TITLE – TBC
18.00 – Lecture – Ustinov Room
19.00 – Drinks Reception – College Reception Foyer More details to follow.
Tuesday 3rd February – IAS Lecture – Professor Garry Marvin (Roehampton University) , ‘Beastly Anthropology: Working in human-animal worlds’
17.30 – Ustinov Room.
‘In keeping with the IAS theme of ‘emergence’, in this talk I will consider the emergence of the inter/multi or perhaps metadisciplinary field of Human-Animal Studies. In recent years, through conversations between scholars, mainly in the humanities and social sciences, the relationships between humans and other animals have been brought from the margins of academic interest to new places of focus and interest. Animals have always been significant in the lives of humans and it could be argued that human societies and cultures have been built on, and with, animal lives. In the talk I will consider this emergence of Human-Animal Studies and what we might learn about human worlds when we pay attention to the mutually co-constituting relationships between people and other animals. In particular, and drawing on my research in the worlds of the Spanish bullfight, English foxhunting and other recreational hunting, I will offer some thoughts about what ethnographically-based anthropology contributes to this emergent field.’
Wednesday 4th February- SCR Buffet Lunch
13.00 – Lakeside Room. Please sign up by 11am on the day at Van Mildert Reception
Thursday 5th February – SCR Art Visit to see Brian Whitton’s collection of paintings and other work by John Tunnard (1900-1971)
19.30 –
Many of Tunnard’s paintings are shown by Google. Some of Brian’s Collection was included in an exhibition at Pallant House Gallery in 2010, many more at Grey College in 2011 and almost all will be in a major exhibition at DLI Museum and Art Gallery for three months starting 18th July. The collection includes Tunnard’s mock up for his Festival of Britain Mural, which was destroyed with much of the rest of the Festival site, but has now been recreated at the entrance of the Palatine House.
For further information and to sign up, please contact Charlotte Imlach at [email protected].