External and Internal Calendar Items for Michaelmas 2009

  • September 25, 2009

Five events have now been planned for Michaelmas Term 2009. More information about the talks and their venues will be available shortly.

 

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
“Just listen they’re scared: The application of  hostage negotiation in everyday life.”

Richard Mullender [Speaker Biography]
Former member of the Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Unit, Scotland Yard

 

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
“Invisible Children”

A film on the growing crisis of child soldiering
Kate Hixon, London School of Economics

 

Sunday, 8 November 2009
“Social Science and the Scientific Method”

Scholars’ Internal Symposium
4:30-6:30pm, Gates Room, University Centre

 

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Wide Sample of Scholar Research

Scholars’ Internal Symposium
6:30-8:30 PM
Gates Room, University Centre

 

Tuesday, 1 December 2009
“Cyberknife”

Mark Brenner, M.D.
Chief of Department of Radiation Oncology, Cyberknife Center, Baltimore, USA

 

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