Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2012

Episodes

1. 15

   Social physics in the big city (4 Dec 2012)

   Lunch Hour Lecture - Autumn 2012 Dr Martin Zaltz Austwick, Lecturer, UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis We live in an era of abundant data, and more data is being opened up to the world every day. More and more of us are handing over detailed personal and location data via social media and...

   Dec 18, 2012

   41m
2. 14

   Apocalypse in 2012? History, myth and science (6 Dec 2012)

   Lunch hour Lectures - Autumn 2012 Prof Elizabeth Graham, Professor of Mesoamerican Archaeology, UCL Institute of Archaeology Dr Francisco Diego Quintana, Honorary Research Associate, UCL Department of Physics and Astronomy Did the Classic Maya really predict the end of the world on 21 December...

   Dec 18, 2012

   38m
3. 13

   Sex work today: myths, morals and health (29 Nov 2012)

   Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2012 Prof Graham Scambler, Professor of Medical Sociology, UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health To mark World AIDS Day, this lecture offers a characterisation of contemporary sex work in London, a debunking of some popular myths, and a framework within which policy...

   Dec 7, 2012

   40m
4. 12

   'Those that don't drink, don't die so fast' (27 Nov 2012)

   Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2012 Dr James Kneale, UCL Geography In the nineteenth century, mainstream medical opinion suggested that abstaining from alcohol was a health risk. The advent of insurance policies for abstainers helped to chip away at this certainty, as well as encouraging...

   Dec 7, 2012

   35m
5. 11

   Sustainable Energy for All: this year, next year, sometime – or never? (20 Nov 2012)

   Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2012 Prof Paul Ekins, Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy, Director, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources What does ‘sustainable energy for all’ mean? How much energy, ‘sustainable’ over what period, and who are the ‘all’? If this ambitious goal is...

   Nov 28, 2012

   43m
6. 10

   Presymptomatic treatment for Alzheimer’s disease: feasible or fanciful? (15 Nov 2012)

   Lunch Hour Lecture - Autumn 2012 Prof Nick Fox, Professor of Neurology, UCL Institute of Neurology, UCL Brain Sciences Alzheimer’s disease affects an estimated 400,000 people in the UK – that number will double over coming decades without treatments to delay or prevent disease. We are now able to...

   Nov 28, 2012

   29m
7. 9

   Hugo Elsewhere: The Jersey Studio and the photography of exile (13 Nov 2012)

   Lunch Hour Lecture - Autumn 2012 Dr Jann Matlock, Senior Lecturer, UCL French and School of European Languages, Culture and Society What is it about exile that inspires photography? This talk explores the earliest known exile photography, created in the studio formed by Victor Hugo’s family and...

   Nov 21, 2012

   43m
8. 8

   Art for science's sake (1 Nov 2012)

   Lunch Hour Lecture - Autumn 2012 Dr Chiara Ambrosio, UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies For centuries, scientists have sought help from artistic practice as a visual aid. This lecture will explore case studies from the 18th to the 21st century, to show that artists have often...

   Nov 7, 2012

   40m
9. 7

   What is modern slavery? (30 Oct 2012)

   Lunch Hour Lecture - Autumn 2012 Dr Virginia Mantouvalou, UCL Laws Is slavery confined to the past? Sadly not. Instances of grave labour exploitation exist in present-day Europe and elsewhere. This lecture will discuss abuses of labour conditions suffered by domestic workers, victims of…

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   Nov 7, 2012

   36m
10. 6

    Can't take, won't take: why patients do not take their medicines (25 Oct 2012)

    Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2012 Prof Nick Barber, Professor of the Practice of Pharmacy, UCL School of Pharmacy There will be over a billion prescription items dispensed in England in 2012, costing the NHS over £9bn. Most of these will be for patients with chronic conditions, yet we know that...

    Oct 31, 2012

    37m
11. 5

    The Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs boson: Latest news from the energy frontier (23 Oct 2012)

    Prof Jon Butterworth, Head of Department (Physics & Astronomy), UCL Mathematical and Physical Sciences Faculty The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is using proton-proton collisions to explore physics at higher energies than ever before. This is the region where the weak and electromagnetic forces...

    Oct 29, 2012

    41m
12. 4

    Does Size Really Matter? Yam ceremonies in Papua New Guinea (18 Oct 2012)

    Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2012 Dr Ludovic Coupaye, UCL Anthropology The Abelam people of Papua New Guinea are known for their elaborate initiation ceremonies. While these are no longer performed, the Abelam nevertheless continue to cultivate, decorate and display massive yam tubers, reaching…

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    Oct 29, 2012

    37m
13. 3

    'To boldly go' (16 Oct 2012)

    Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2012 Dr Kevin Fong, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Physiology, UCL Faculty of Life Sciences In the 100 years since Scott's expedition to Antarctica, we have redefined the way we explore the physical world. Parallel advances in our understanding of the human body have...

    Oct 29, 2012

    39m
14. 2

    Drawing over the colour line: Art & cosmopolitan politics in London 1919-39 (11 Oct 2012)

    Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2012 Dr Caroline Bressey, Lecturer, UCL Geography What role did individual Black and Asian actors play in the changing artistic, social, cultural and political scenes that emerged in inter-War London? Dr Bressey's current research project examines the archives of art...

    Oct 29, 2012

    33m
15. 1

    Snails in art and the art of snails (9 Oct 2012)

    Lunch Hour Lecture - Autumn 2012 Professor Steve Jones, FRS UCL Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment Snails are beautiful and decorative animals, with many species marked by patterns on the shell that differ from one individual to another. But why? Prof Jones has spent forty...

    Oct 29, 2012

    37m