University of Greenwich Events Listing

Events for February 2012

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

The Meanders of Union Organising in Eastern Europe

10th Feb 2012 4:30pm-7:00pm

The Work and Employment Research Unit is holding a seminar, titled The Meanders of Union Organising in Eastern Europe, led by Dr Adam Mrozowicki from the Institute of Sociology, University of Wroclaw.

The seminar will examine the mechanism of trade union organising in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) while exploring the trade union recruitment strategies in the automotive and retail sectors in Estonia, Poland, Romania and Slovenia.

Dr Adam Mrozowicki is a lecturer at the Institute of Sociology, University of Wroclaw. He specialises in areas of the sociology of work, comparative employment relations and qualitative methodology.

To book a place, please e-mail BusinessEvents@gre.ac.uk with your name, contact email and department.

For further information please visit the conference website.

QA063, Queen Anne Court, Greenwich Campus, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London, SE10 9LS.

Look What We Found!

16th Feb 2012 6:30pm

Greenwich Society lecture given by Duncan Hawkins, archaeologist for the University of Greenwich project to redevelop Stockwell Street. This illustrated talk also offers a chance to look at archaeological finds from this important site in central Greenwich, as well as other interesting locations in and around the town.

Venue: Barrington Lecture Theatre (Room QA065) Queen Anne Court, Greenwich Campus

Date: Thursday 16 February 2012 at 6:30pm.

Tickets: £2.50 per person (includes a glass of wine).

Please send cheque made payable to The Greenwich Society, either requesting an e-ticket or enclose a stamped addressed envelope for a standard ticket, to: Jackie Hicks, 60 Greenwich Park Street, London SE10 9LT

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.