Events Calendar

This is a list of forthcoming events held at Bangor University and organised by the University or affiliated groups and open to the public.

To place an event on this site please send all the necessary details to press@bangor.ac.uk

Please download our Campus Map (PDF) to help you find the location of your event.

School of Social Sciences Seminar Series.

Date: Thursday 11 March 2010
Time: 12:00:00
Location: Lecture Room 3.

Joint event with British Society of Criminology Wales.

Dr Harriet Pierpoint, University of Glamorgan - 'Offenders with Speech and Language Disorders'

Language Development and Cognition Colloquia.

Date: Thursday 11 March 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: Brigantia Room 342.

Dr Linda Wheeldon (Birmingham University) - 'Producing Spoken Sentences: The Scope of Incremental Planning'

Ensemble Cymru.

Date: Thursday 11 March 2010
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.

Pianist Harvey Davies is joined by a quartlet of string players for a performance of Schubert's much-loved 'Trout' Quintet.

Free pre-concert talk (7.30pm, Powis Hall).

Public Lecture.

Date: Friday 12 March 2010
Time: 17:15:00
Location: Conference Room, Hen Goleg, College Road, Bangor (directly opposite the University's Main Arts Building).

From Socrates to Slumdog Millionaire - 125 years of change in Bangor University is the fascinating title of a public lecture being presented by Dr David Roberts, author of a recently published account of the University's history, Bangor University 1882-2009 and Bangor University's Registrar.

The Lecture, which is free and open to all, is organised by the University of Wales Guild of Graduates.

Cabaret Powis.

Date: Friday 12 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.

Cabaret Powis presents...

Stand-up Comedy Night - 'Kill for a Seat Comedy!' with Tom Wrigglesworth, Nick Doody and Silky.

Bar and Food available / over 18s, Tickets; 01248 382141 or Cob Records.

Part of Bangor University's PONTIO Programme.

New Faces: Gary O'Shea.

Date: Saturday 13 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.

New Faces: Gary O'Shea (Piano)

Music at Bangor is delighted to welcome Gary back for his first professional recital in the city.

School of Theology and Religious Studies Research Seminar.

Date: Monday 15 March 2010
Time: 14:15:00
Location: WISCA Seminar Room.

Professor Mary Mills, Department of Theology, Religious Studies and Philosophy, Liverpool Hope University

‘Temple Space and Urban Imaginary in Prophetic Texts of the Hebrew Bible’

ESRC Research Seminar Series.

Date: Monday 15 March 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: 37 College Road.

Cor van der Meer, Fryske Akademy (Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning)

Poetry Reading.

Date: Monday 15 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Blue Sky Cafe, High St. Bangor.

Victor Rodriguez Núñez is one of Cuba's most noteworthy contemporary writers. He has published eleven books of poetry, many of them recipients of literary awards, including the David Prize (Cuba, 1980), the Plural Prize (Mexico, 1983), the EDUCA Prize (Costa Rica, 1995), the Renacimiento Prize (Spain, 2000), the Fray Luis de León Prize (Spain, 2005) and the Leonor Prize (Spain, 2006). He is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College.

Barbara Pogacnik, from Slovenia, is a translator, essayist, literary critic and poet.Her second poetry collection "V mnoici izgubljeni papir" (Sheets of Paper Lost in the Crowd) was published in 2008 and selected poems have been translated into several languages. She is currently a Translators' House Wales / HALMA writer-in-residence at Ty Newydd.

Presented by Poetry Wales in Association with the School of Modern Languagesuk.

Public Lecture.

Date: Tuesday 16 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Lecture Room 4, Main Arts Building.

Mrs Zarin Hainsworth BA (Hons) MIOJ

'Critical Issues Facing Women Today'

Bangor New Music Festival.

Date: Tuesday 16 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.

Presents...

Gwilym Simcock Trio 'Forever Young'

Gwilym Simcock - Piano / Yuri Goloubev - Double Bass / James Maddren - Drums

Tickets on the door: £10 (Adults), £7 (Pensioners), £5 (Students), £2 (Under 18)

Online: www.bnmf.co.uk

Contact: info@bnmf.co.uk

School of Social Sciences Seminar Series.

Date: Wednesday 17 March 2010
Time: 12:00:00
Location: Hen Goleg 1.11 (old coffee lounge)

Dr Ros Burnett and Dr Gisella Hanley Santos, University of Oxford - 'Chewing more than you bite off: evaluating a complex pilot project in criminal justice'

OPAN Seminar.

Date: Wednesday 17 March 2010
Time: 13:00:00
Location: Room G7, Thoday Building, Bangor University.

Video conference -

Professor Judith Phillips, Swansea University.

'Spaces and Places: Older people's experience of unfamiliar space'

School of Modern Languages Research Forum.

Date: Wednesday 17 March 2010
Time: 14:00:00
Location: Room 321 Main Arts Building.

Professor Tim Unwin (Bristol)

'Jules Verne, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and the Great Eastern'.

Bangor New Music Festival.

Date: Wednesday 17 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.

Presents...

Electroacoustic Wales 'A Portrait of Michael Alcorn'

Composers: Michael Alcorn, Andrew Lewis and Bangor University Music Students.

Tickets: £10 (Adults), £7 (Pensioners), £5 (Students), £2 (Under 18's).

Online: www.bnmf.co.uk

Contact: info@bnmf.co.uk

Easter Poetry.

Date: Thursday 18 March 2010
Time: 17:30:00
Location: Anglican Chaplaincy Chapel Bangor.

Professor Colin Price, who performed his Christmas Narratives in the Anglican Chaplaincy before Christmas, is coming back to present his Easter cycle of poems, called 'Passion Narratives'.

All are welcome at what should be a powerful and moving hour of words and music.

Film: Cinema Paradiso (1988).

Date: Thursday 18 March 2010
Time: 19:00:00
Location: Main Arts Lecture Theatre, Main Arts Building.

A beautiful story unfolds about a man's childhood friendship with an old man who was the projectionist at the local theater.

Entrance: £4

Part of Bangor University's PONTIO Programme.

Bangor New Music Festival.

Date: Thursday 18 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.

Presents...

Iwan Llewelyn-Jones

'Etudes Et Paysage' - Solo piano works

Tickets: £10 (Adults), £7 (Pensioners), £5 (Students), £2 (Under18's)

Online: www.bnmf.co.uk

Contact: info@bnmf.co.uk

Cabaret Powis.

Date: Friday 19 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.

Latin Night with...

Sierra Maestra

Banda Bacana

Tickets: £12 Ring 01248 382141 or call in at Cob Records, Bangor. Bar and food available.

Part of Bangor University's PONTIO Programme.

ESRC Research Seminar Series.

Date: Monday 22 March 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: 37 College Road.

Thorsten Piske, University of Education in Schwabisch Gmund

One Day School: ID Theft.

Date: Thursday 25 March 2010
Time: 10:00:00
Location: Lifelong Learning, Dean Street, Bangor.

ID Theft: your essential guide to better security.

10.00am-4.00pm

Fee: £45 (No concessions)

For more information and to book and pay online click here.

Language Development and Cognition Colloquia.

Date: Thursday 25 March 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: Brigantia Room 342.

Dr Walter Van Heuven (Nottingham University) - Title TBC.

Bangor New Music Festival.

Date: Friday 26 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard Jones Hall.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales - 'Current Trends'

Presents...

BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Grant Llywellyn and Raphael Wallfisch

Pwyll ap Sion

Andrew Lewis

Guto Pryderi Puw

Adrian Williams

Tickets: £12.50 (Adults), £9.50 (Pensioners), £6 (Students), £3 ( Under-18's)

Online: www.bnmf.co.uk

Contact: info@bnmf.co.uk

'Chwilys'.

Date: Saturday 27 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: John Phillips Hall.

Cwmni Theatr Tandem (in co-operation with Bara Caws) presents a brand-new drama by Aled Jones Williams:

'Chwilys'

Tickets: £6 Phone 01248 382141, or Palas Prints, Bangor

Part of Bangor University's PONTIO Programme.

School of Social Sciences Seminar Series.

Date: Wednesday 31 March 2010
Time: 12:00:00
Location: Hen Goleg 1.11 (old coffee lounge)

Professor Huw Beynon, Cardiff University - 'Trade Unionism in Wales'.

NWORTH Open Day.

Date: Thursday 8 April 2010
Time: 09:00:00
Location: Bangor University.

Open Day.

Programme to be finalised.

Please contact Karen Hughes (karen.hughes@bangor.ac.uk) or Huw Roberts (huw.roberts@bangor.ac.uk) on 01248388095 for further information or to register.

ESRC Research Seminar Series.

Date: Friday 9 April 2010
Time: 15:00:00
Location: G7 Thoday Building.

Gillian Sankoff, Video conference at University of Pennsylvannia

School of Modern Languages Research Forum.

Date: Wednesday 14 April 2010
Time: 14:00:00
Location: Room 321 Main Arts Building.

Ms Nicki Frith (Bangor)

'The Banlieusards in the French Media: From Paris Commune (1871) to the Riots of 2005'.

One Day School: ID Theft.

Date: Thursday 15 April 2010
Time: 10:00:00
Location: Lifelong Learning, Dean Street, Bangor.

ID Theft: your essential guide.

10.00am-4.00pm

Fee £45 (No concessions)

For more information and to book and pay onlines click here.

LUCHIP Ensemble.

Date: Thursday 15 April 2010
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.

This ensemble from Leeds University's Centre for Historically-Informed Performance presents classical and early romantic music on period instruments.

Free pre-concert talk (7.15pm, Powis Hall)

Early Music Bangor and Bangor Baroque.

Date: Saturday 17 April 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.

The University's early music ensembles continue their exploration of favourite and lesser-known music from before 1800.

ESRC Research Seminar Series.

Date: Monday 19 April 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: 37 College Road.

Ocke-Schwen Bohn, Aarhus University

Bangor University Chamber Choir.

Date: Thursday 22 April 2010
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.

Bangor University Chamber Chori spring concert.

Brass Bands of Beaumaris, Deiniolen, & Menai Bridge.

Date: Saturday 24 April 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard Jones Hall.

A gala concert featuring North West Wales's three leading brass bands.

School of Theology and Religious Studies Research Seminar.

Date: Monday 26 April 2010
Time: 14:15:00
Location: WISCA Seminar Room.

Dr. Peter Oakes, Department of Religions and Theology, Manchester University

‘Paul and Pompeian Craftworkers: Reading Religious Texts in relation to Social Diversity’

Language Development and Cognition Colloquia.

Date: Thursday 29 April 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: Brigantia Room 342.

Dr Danijela Trenkic (University of York) - 'Second Language Article Use: Asymmetry Between Comprehension and Production'

Jana Frenklova (piano).

Date: Thursday 29 April 2010
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.

In her second recital of the season, Jana Frenklova presents Schumann's fascinating and virtuosic pieces.

Patsy Reid - Bridging The Gap.

Date: Saturday 1 May 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard Jones Hall.

Commissioned by Celtic Connections 2008, composer, Patsy Reid, combines her love of traditional and classical music on Bridging the Gap, comprising nine original melodies, each based on one of the seven modern modes of music: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian.

O'Donnell Lecture.

Date: Tuesday 4 May 2010
Time: 18:30:00
Location: Main Arts Lecture Theatre.

Professor Christopher Bryant, Prifysgol Salford

'Reconfiguring Britain'

Language Development and Cognition Colloquia.

Date: Thursday 6 May 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: Brigantia Room 342.

Mrs Anne Cooke (School of Psychology) - 'Theories about dyslexia: insights from teaching'

Bangor University Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

Date: Saturday 8 May 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard-Jones Hall.

The 100-strong University Chorus is joined by a cast of professional soloists for a major performance of Verdi's Requiem.

ESRC Research Seminar Series.

Date: Monday 10 May 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: 37 College Road.

Esther de Leeuw, University of West of England, Bristol (Visiting Researcher)

Language Development and Cognition Colloquia.

Date: Thursday 13 May 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: Brigantia Room 342.

Dr Pedro Guijarro Fuentes (Plymouth University) - 'Language Attrition at the Interface in Language Contact: Is This Syntactic Change?'

Henry Richard Memorial Lecture.

Date: Thursday 13 May 2010
Time: 18:00:00
Location: Main Arts Lecture Theatre.

Lord Morgan FBA

'Henry Richard and the Modern World'

ESRC Research Seminar Series.

Date: Monday 17 May 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: 37 College Road.

Julia Barns, Univesity of Mondragon

'Thirty five years of training teachers to teach in a minority language context: from post-Franco language revival to multilingualism in the Basque Country'.

ESRC Research Seminar Series.

Date: Monday 24 May 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: 37 College Road.

Natascha Muller, Bergische Universitat Wuppertal

Language Development and Cognition Colloquia.

Date: Thursday 27 May 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: Brigantia Room 342.

Dr Carmel Houston-Price (Reading University) - 'How infants lear how to learn words'.

End-of-year Gala Concert.

Date: Friday 4 June 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard-Jones Hall.

The season draws to its traditional close with performances by the University Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Choir and Music Society - with a free glass of cava for everyone.