Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 7.00pm


Poetry, Passion and the Pre-Raphaelites
Michael Howard


Anyone visiting the Manchester Art Gallery will be left with clear images of a number of Pre-Raphaelite paintings. This lecture explores the first avant-garde arts movement which consciously made a break from previous styles.


MANDEC, Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester


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Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 7.00pm


Lord Burghley and Maps of Elizabethan Lancashire

Dr Michael Winstanley
Senior Lecturer, University of Lancaster


Lord Burghley (William Cecil), Queen Elizabeth I’s Secretary of State, Lord Treasurer and Master of Court Wards was a statesman who pioneered the use of maps for political purposes. This lecture looks at how his map of Lancashire came to be made and what it can tell us about Elizabethan Lancashire.


MANDEC, Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester


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Monday, 18 May 2009, 7.00pm


DNA and Identity
Sir Mark Walport
Director, The Wellcome Trust


It is now possible to genetically type humans at over 1 million different positions in the genome. What does this mean for individuals and society? To what extent can we blame our individual foibles on our genetic deck of cards?



Manchester Business School, Booth Street West, Manchester


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Wednesday, 27 May 2009, 7.00pm


DEVELOPMENT OF A UK-NUCLEAR ELECTRICITY PROGRAMME


Dr Nigel Knee

British Energy - EDF


This session will explore the current postition in the UK on the developments of the next  generation of nuclear power reactors. The UK Government has made clear that a new wave of nuclear power stations should be part of the UK's future

energy mix.


The presentation will examine the progress made in terms of government policy, the actions that are still required by policy-makers and regulators, and examine in more detail the part that British Energy-EDF is playing in taking forward the new nuclear capacity in the UK.


MANDEC, Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester



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