Arts & Science Festival 2014

Themed life and death, Arts & Science Festival 2014 saw a range of events, from Professor Alice Roberts’ exhibition and talk exploring The Art of Anatomy, to Professor Carl Chinn’s lecture inhabiting Life and Death in Back-Street Birmingham).

Working in partnership with Eastside Projects, we welcomed Turner prize winning artist Susan Phillipsz, who discussed her sound-based works which cross the boundaries between art and science, and Scottish artist Bill Drummond, who joined us for a special lecture exploring the Life and Death of an Artist.

Festival Highlights

Scottish artist Bill Drummond leads a durational performance on the University…

Bill Drummond, Life and Death of an Artist

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

7PM

Bramall Music Building, Elgar Concert Hall

Explore how artists have tackled the subject of life and death in paintings of…

Mortality Matters

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

1.15PM

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Galleries

Death might not be certain, though taxes probably are. In this lecture,…

Why We Die

Thursday, 20 March 2014

1.30PM

Watson Building, G24

Cancer comes in many shapes and forms, but have you ever had chance to take a…

Cancer: Up Close & Personal

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

10AM

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Foyer

Exhibition of how artists have depicted the dissected human body in anatomical…

The Art of Anatomy

Friday, 21 March 2014

1.10PM

Muirhead Tower, Lecture Theatre G15

At the 1900 Paris Exposition, visitors had their first taste of sound-cinema,…

PHONO-CINEMA-THEATRE

Sunday, 23 March 2014

3PM

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Concert Hall

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Launching Arts & Science Festival, Simon Halsey leads the University Chorus…

Launch Concert: University Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra: Mozart’s Requiem

Sunday, 16 March 2014

6PM

Town Hall, Birmingham
Do your memories have sounds? What might these sounds look like? How could you…

Life Echo

Monday, 17 March 2014

5PM

Biosciences Building, E102
There are still some places in the world where a girl is more likely to die in…

Saving Mothers Lives

Monday, 17 March 2014

12.30PM

Aston Webb, WG12
Join leading academics for this fascinating discussion exploring the…

Mental Illness: Philosophy, Ethics and Society

Monday, 17 March 2014

1PM

Arts Building, Lecture Room 5
An exhibition of short answers will be on display throughout Arts & Science…

What is it to be human?

Monday, 17 March to Friday, 21 March 2014

Philosophy, Theology, Religion Social Space, ERI Building (1st Floor)
Exhibition of photographs accompanying Bernadette Russel’s project in…

366 Days of Kindness: Can Kindness Change the World?

Monday, 17 March to Friday, 21 March 2014

TBC

TBC
Since the pioneering days of cinema in the late 19th century, death, murder,…

Filming the Inevitable

Monday, 17 March 2014

12.30PM

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Lecture Theatre
A showcase of documentary films and guided editing projects produced by recent…

MA Film and Television Documentary Screenings

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

7.30PM

Muirhead Tower, Lecture Theatre G15
To commemorate the centenary of the First World War, the University of…

Birmingham Great War Centenary Lecture: Roads to War

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

5.30PM

Arts Building, Lecture Room 3
Explore how artists have tackled the subject of life and death in paintings of…

Mortality Matters

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

1.15PM

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Galleries
Join Meagan Mangum, Classical Archaeology, and Simon Buteux and Sarah Hayes…

Dead Fashionable: a cultural and temporary reflection on the fashions of death and burial

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

5.30PM

Arts Building, The Archaeology Museum
In this conversation, Rose Whyman and Michael Toolan will discuss the theme of…

Life and Death in Chekhov

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

12PM

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Lecture Theatre
Join us for this very special guest lecture by 2010 Turner Prize winning artist…

Susan Phillipsz/ Study for Strings and other ‘Scores’

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

6.30PM

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Concert Hall
Expand your knowledge of art through five key paintings, selected in response…

Arts History Speed Workshop

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

2PM

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Galleries
Greeting, my house! And greeting, doorway to my hearth! What happiness to see…

Mad(e) in Hades

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

8PM

Hills Building, Room 1.20
The different ways in which people talk and write about animals is the topic of…

Representing Animals in Scientific Journals: A Corpus Linguistic Approach

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

12.30PM

Law Building, Room 111
Join the School of Biosciences and take a closer look at macrophages – the…

Macrophages: The Cells that Save your Life Everyday!

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

9AM

Muirhead Tower, Foyer
During Earth’s long history there have been times where life has dramatically…

Written in stone: life and death in the fossil record/ Life’s diversification

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

6.30PM

Lapworth Museum and Earth Imaging Lab
To coincide with the announcement of the winners of the Undergraduate and…

In our digital age, what value do books have?

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

2.30PM

Arts Building, Lecture Theatre 1 (Main Lecture Theatre)
In this illustrated talk, Professor Lisa Downing explores how auto-erotic death…

Dying for Sex: Cultural and Forensic Narrative of Auto-Erotic Death

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

6PM

Nuffield, G13
Dr Elena Theodorakopoulos presents a special talk about a new project…

Living Classics in modern Community

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

4PM

Arts Building, Lecture Theatre 2 – Room 126
The previously banned, Save the Children Fund Film, directed by Ken Loach and…

The Save the Children Fund Film

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

6PM

Aston Webb, WG5
Working from a large collection of original photographs of German soldiers…

Re-visualising the Inglorious Dead: The Abandoned Enemy from the Great Holiday of WW1

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

6PM

ERI Building, G51
Cancer comes in many shapes and forms, but have you ever had chance to take a…

Cancer: Up Close & Personal

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

10AM

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Foyer
Join the School of Physics and Astronomy for an evening of discovery. Learn…

Understanding Nature: The birth of scientific discoveries

Wednesday, 19 March to Friday, 21 March 2014

5PM

Muirhead Tower, Lecture Theatre G15
This event showcases multi-disciplinary research exploring aspects of prison…

Prison Life: Inside & Out

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

5PM

Law Building, Lecture Theatre 3
Scottish artist Bill Drummond leads a durational performance on the University…

Bill Drummond, Life and Death of an Artist

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

7PM

Bramall Music Building, Elgar Concert Hall
A picture is often said to say a thousand words, but can it sum up an entire…

Images of Research

Thursday, 20 March 2014

12PM

Bramall Music Building
Join Dr Chris Allen for a special screening of Le Grand Voyage, a 2004 film…

Urban Islam

Thursday, 20 March 2014

5.30PM

Muirhead Tower, Room 710
Mass extinctions have dramatically shaped the history of life, creating…

Written in stone: life and death in the fossil record/ Mass extinctions

Thursday, 20 March 2014

6.30PM

Lapworth Museum and Earth Imaging Lab
..are life sentences merely the death penalty by another name? The UK is…

When ‘life’ means’ death’ – are life sentences really an appropriate alternative to the death penalty?

Thursday, 20 March 2014

12.30PM

Law Building, Lecture Theatre 2
From North America to eastern Europe, the Vikings visited, raided or colonised…

What do we know about the Vikings now?

Thursday, 20 March 2014

6PM

Arts Building, Lecture Room 1
‘Creative Minds at Birmingham’, the School of English, Drama, and American…

Creative Minds at Birmingham: Michael Longley

Thursday, 20 March 2014

5.15PM

Bramall Music Building, Elgar Concert Hall
In 1814 the teenage Mary Godwin meets the radical Romantic poet Percy Bysshe…

Mary Shelley

Thursday, 20 March to Saturday, 22 March 2014

7.30PM

George Cadbury Hall
Using glass slides from the University’s Research and Cultural Collections,…

Victorian Magic Lantern Show

Thursday, 20 March 2014

12-1PM AND 2-3PM

Winterbourne House & Garden
A showcase of short ‘Social Action’ films made by pupils at Holte School,…

Life and Death, and the Social Action Film

Thursday, 20 March 2014

7PM

Muirhead Tower, Lecture Theatre G15
The Stuart Hall Project is a meditation on the life, politics and work of the…

The Stuart Hall Project

Thursday, 20 March 2014

5.15PM

Arts Building, Lecture Room 5
Death might not be certain, though taxes probably are. In this lecture,…

Why We Die

Thursday, 20 March 2014

1.30PM

Watson Building, G24
Exhibition of how artists have depicted the dissected human body in anatomical…

The Art of Anatomy

Friday, 21 March 2014

1.10PM

Muirhead Tower, Lecture Theatre G15
Carl Chinn, Professor of Birmingham Community History and author of over 20…

Back-to-back and Up the Yard: Life and Death in Back-Street Birmingham, 1880 – 1960

Friday, 21 March 2014

1PM

Arts Building, Lecture Room 7
In response to the riots of August 2011, Bernadette Russell committed to be…

366 Days of Kindness: A Talk

Friday, 21 March 2014

3.30PM

ERI Building, G51
Simon Halsey directs a performance of David Lang’s The Little Match Girl…

Binchois Consort, Birmingham University Singers & University Women’s Choir

Friday, 21 March 2014

7.30PM

Bramall Music Building, Elgar Concert Hall
Join Artists in Residence louie+jesse and Historian Dr Kieran Connell for the…

The Handsworth Scroll: Radical Politics on the High Street

Friday, 21 March 2014

1.30PM

Arts Building, The Danford Room
LIFE Before Death is a multi-award winning documentary series that asks the…

Life Before Death

Friday, 21 March 2014

5.30PM

Arts Building, Lecture Room 3
Multi-media show tells the heartbreaking, surprising and challenging stories of…

368 Days of Kindness: Can Kindness Change the World?

Saturday, 22 March 2014

TBC

TBC
Join university curator Clare Mullett and staff from Birmingham’s Ikon…

1960s Art and Architecture Tour

Saturday, 22 March 2014

1PM

Tour starts at Paolozzi statue
The University Symphony Orchestra performs the eighth of Vaughan Williams’…

University Symphony Orchestra

Sunday, 23 March 2014

6PM

Bramall Music Building, Elgar Concert Hall
At the 1900 Paris Exposition, visitors had their first taste of sound-cinema,…

PHONO-CINEMA-THEATRE

Sunday, 23 March 2014

3PM

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Concert Hall
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