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Wed 29th April

Old Joe on a blue sky day with a bird flying nearby Re-viewing the ‘bad’ arts of Tudor and Stuart England
5pm - 6pm
Room G11, Alan Walters building
In her inaugural lecture, Professor Tara Hamling argues that deeply engrained value judgements about what constitutes ‘art’ or serious historical evidence have produced a distorted and partial version of Tudor and Stuart history.
Two students walking across campus chatting Tackling linguistic discrimination in higher-education: a student-staff collaboration
6pm - 7pm
Lecture Room 1, Arts building and online
Christian Ilbury, Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, explores the ways universities are complicit in the maintenance, circulation, and promotion of linguistic inequality. There will also be contributions from current UoB students.

Thu 30th April

An aerial photo of the Edgbaston campus on a sunny day Every monument will fall: in conversation with Dan Hicks
4:30pm - 6:30pm
Lecture Room 1, Arts building and online
Hear Prof Dan Hicks (University of Oxford) in conversation with Prof Corinne Fowler (University of Leicester) to discuss his new book 'Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting', with support from The Heath Bookshop.

Tue 26th May

Three people chat over coffee in the Bramall cafe Masculinity now: writing about men
4pm - 6pm
Room G11, Alan Walters building
Join Professor Luke Kennard, author of Black Bag, and Dr Christina Wilkins, author of Male Mental Health in Contemporary Culture, for a discussion around writing about men and masculinity in fiction.

Wed 10th June

A headshot of Prof Toyin Falola over a decorative background Philosophy, Creativity, and Art: Yoruba metaphysics as inspiration
12:30pm - 2pm
Lecture Room 127, Arts building
Explore how Yoruba cosmology shapes contemporary music, film, dance, and literature in this lunch and talk with Prof Toyin Falola which examines how ancestral knowledge continues to generate new creative forms and meanings in the modern world.

Fri 12th June

Old Joe on a blue sky day with a bird flying nearby A tribute to the life and scholarship of Professor Mary Cunningham
10am - 5:30pm
Arts Building
This memorial event is open interested in Byzantine Studies or who wish to pay tribute to Professor Mary Cunningham, reflecting key themes of Mary's scholarship in the Theotokos, the Hypapante, and her work in the contemporary Orthodox Church.

Wed 17th June

The dome on the Aston Webb building seen through foliage UK and Ireland Health Ethics and Law Association Conference
9:30am - 5:30pm
Law building
Birmingham Law School is delighted to host the first Conference of the new UK and Ireland Health Ethics and Law Association, with themes including End of Life, Reproduction, Consent and Capacity, Mental Health. Registration is free for PGR students.
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