What's On at the University of Greenwich?
Gateway Games - Atelier 11, University of Greenwich School of Architecture
27th Jan 2012 - 24th Feb 2012
An exhibition of speculative architectural models and drawings set in the Thames Gateway, by the university’s School of Architecture, looks at the wider impact of the Games and its legacy.
This story is told with the help of Charles Dickens, Georges Perec, JG Ballard, Iain Sinclair, and Angela Carter, starting with the moment when, in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, Pip is turned upside down by the convict Abel Magwitch – a scene set on the Hoo Peninsula, the geographical centre of the Thames Gateway.
Just as the rotation of Pip represents the metaphoric moment when past and future collide in the novel, the contemporary story of London’s shift to the east is both described and imagined in the exhibition where the body and its experience is at the centre of the projects presented.
Over the last seven years Atelier 11, in the postgraduate research of the School of Architecture at the University of Greenwich, has been speculating on the fictional and factual history and future of the Thames Gateway through drawings and models which have been presented at the Royal Academy and as part of the Royal Institute of British Architects Presidents’ Medals.
For further information please visit: http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/slg
The Stephen Lawrence Gallery: Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, SE10 9LS.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm, Saturday 11am to 4pm, closed Sundays and public holidays.
Big Picture Presents: Personality in the UK
8th Feb 2012 5:00pm-7:00pm
The Business School is hosting a lecture, titled Personality in the UK, as part of the School’s Big Picture series.
The lecture will look at the way businesses use psychometric testing as a tool for recruiting new employees.
The lecture will be presented by Jon Gowlland who has worked as a freelance occupational psychologist and whose speciality is measuring people's personality. He does this by using tests to distinguish between applicants on the basis of job-relevant traits. Tests are carried out ‘blind’ and attempt to provide an unbiased analysis of a person’s long term personality.
Jon has conducted psychometric testing for Allianz Cornhill, Compass Finance Group, Laser, Channel 4, and the prison service.
In the lecture he will discuss the type of personality suitable for certain jobs, five common mistakes interviewers and interviewees make, self esteem, whether you can change your personality and how to make better judgements about people.
To register for this free event e-mail BusinessEvents@gre.ac.uk with your full name, email address and contact number.
(Please note room change) QA180, Greenwich Campus, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London, SE10 9LS
Evilsport and Ultra Run
29th Feb 2012 (all day)
Curated by Dan Shipsides and Veronique Chance
Offering his collection of vintage Mountain magazines (1969 – 1992), Dan Shipsides’ project asks the viewer to explore the “sport” of climbing through an encounter with the aesthetics, philosophy, ethics and maverick social positioning of many climbers. Radical lifestyles and belief positions embodied by certain infamous early mountaineers gave flesh to the quasi-spiritual, romantic and escapist tendencies resonant in the seductive images on show.
As climbing is being proposed for the 2020 Olympics, and as much of rock and mountain sport has succumbed to prescribed and commercial modes of physique, technique, equipment and branding, Evilsport expounds a friction to the wholesome Olympic ideal.
Relationships between the physical presence of the body and its representation on screen are explored in the work of Veronique Chance. In The Great Orbital Ultra Run the artist, wired up with film and sound-recording equipment, records the demanding physicality of running the 140-mile long journey along the outer Orbital paths of Greater London for subsequent relay in the gallery.
Both works test the point where sport crosses over to performative expression and examine its representation in broadcast and printed media.
For further information please visit: http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/slg
The Stephen Lawrence Gallery: Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, SE10 9LS.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm, Saturday 11am to 4pm, closed Sundays and public holidays.
School of Humanities & Social Sciences Lecture
7th Mar 2012 5:30pm
Alessandro Benati, professor of Applied Linguistics & Second Language Studies, will be giving a lecture titled ‘Input Processing and Processing Instruction: Story So Far’.
The lecture will be followed by a reception to be held in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery.
For further information about this event please contact the School of Humanities & Social Sciences:
Tel: 020 8331 9357
Email: k.guindi@gre.ac.uk
Venue: The Edinburgh Room, Queen Anne 075, Greenwich Campus, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London, SE10 9LS.
The Choir and Orchestra Concert
23rd Mar 2012 7:30pm
The University of Greenwich Choir and Orchestra, will be performing a concert and will be conducted by Greg Hallam.
Gabriel Fauré: Requiem
Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man
Tickets will be available from late February. Please visit the choir website for further information: www.greenwich.ac.uk/choir
Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London, SE10 9LW.
The Name of the Game
5th Apr 2012 - 11th May 2012
Curated by Martin Rasmussen
Art animation takes on the seductive imagery, dynamics and competitiveness of the digital games industry as well as that of the entertainment industry as a whole. It speaks to us through the same platform of interaction and creation of different worlds but also distinguishes itself through a contradictory move to both competition and entertainment. It perhaps exaggerates both in order to pick our worlds apart and therefore becomes the most apparent interface between machine and man
This exhibition both celebrates and questions the idea of “games” in relation to popular visual culture.
Please Note: the gallery is closed on Easter and May public holidays
For further information please visit: http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/slg
The Stephen Lawrence Gallery: Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, SE10 9LS.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm, Saturday 11am to 4pm, closed Sundays and public holidays.
Grammar Instruction in Second Language Acquisition: Theoretical and Practical Considerations
21st Apr 2012 9:00am-6:00pm
This conference is aimed at primary and secondary school teachers, lecturers, university students and researchers interested in second language acquisition (SLA) and applied linguistics.
The main goals of the conference are to:
- Provide updated information on the role of grammar instruction in language learning
- Consider the relevance of SLA research on grammar instruction for language teaching
The conference will also mark the launch of Continuum Issues in Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research, a new publishing series exploring theoretical insights into Instructed Second Language Acquisition research.
The event is free of charge but people will have to register by completing a form on the microsite.
You can visit the site at the following address: http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/schools/humanities/about/events/slac
Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich SE10 9LS.