Rewley House Research Seminar Series - About the seminar series
The multi-disciplinary research seminars are held once a term at Rewley House, and are designed to highlight current and future research initiatives in the Department for Continuing Education.
The aim of the series is to bring together academic staff, current postgraduate students and administrative colleagues of the University in an informal intellectual and social environment. The seminars are held on Friday, Week 4 of each term at 4.30pm, and each address a general theme - 'risk', 'gender', 'revolution' and 'ethics' are the provisional topics for discussion.
The format of each seminar is intended to encourage a range of perspectives and engagement with the core theme. Three speakers from separate disciplines and academic contexts will describe how the concept or experience of that topic has influenced their own research and research-related agendas. Speakers each have fifteen minutes to deliver their presentation or 'pitch', followed by discussion, a wine reception and optional dinner at Rewley House for 7.00pm.
The evening dinner is an opportunity for research students from across a variety of disciplines to meet one another, as well as departmental staff. The dinners form a regular, but informal, termly 'hub' for students and staff to discuss their research interests in a friendly and sociable atmosphere. Please do let us know if you would like to speak at a forthcoming seminar, or if there is someone in particular from whom you would like to hear. We hope to have a mixture of staff and student speakers at each event.
We are currently taking bookings for the third seminar, 'Ethics' (which is free to attend) and the post-seminar dinner (£15 per person). Please visit the Ethics seminar page and book your place to attend either or both the seminar and dinner. Please note that this event is only open to current members of the University.
The schedule for the academic year 2011-12 is as follows: