Seminars and Conferences 2008-2009

September

30 September 2008 - Chris Collins (Bangor University) 'European Music in late nineteenth-century Cadiz: Falla’s Childhood Experiences'. School of Music Research Seminars. (5.00pm, Lecture Hall, School of Music)

October:

3 October 2008 - Nigel Hussey (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'δ15N and δ 13C ontogenetic profiles of a carcharhinid and a sphyrnid off Southern Africa: viable indicators of trophic and movement ecology?' and Ana Queiroz 'Climatic regulation of invasion impacts on native diversity and ecosystem functioning'. Seminars in Biology and Geology. (Friday 12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences, Menai Bridge)

3 October 2008 - Sônia Corrêa (University of Warwick) 'Trafficking of transmembrane proteins in mammalian neurons'. Life and Environment Seminars. (Friday 1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, Bangor University)

6 October 2008 - Dr Carl Levy (London) 'Social Histories of Anarchism'.
Dr Alexander Sedlmaier (Bangor) 'Critiques of consumer society and political violence in alternative left-wing politics, 1968–1983.' Chair: PD Dr Christian Koller. History Research Seminars. (Monday, 5.00-7.00 pm, Room G1, Main Arts Building. Organizer: PD Dr Christian Koller)

7 October 2008 - Dr Elisabeth Thiele (Leverhulme post-doc research fellow at Bangor University). ' ‘New Orleans’ Afro-American religious culture 3 years after Hurricane Katrina’. School of Theology and Religious Studies Research Seminar. (1.15pm, WISCA, seminar room).

8 October 2008 - Prof Eva Schultze-Berndt (University of Manchester) 'Event classification and event decomposition'. Linguistics Circle 2008/09 Research Seminars. (2.00pm, the Linguistics Seminar Room)

10 October 2008 - Dr Mattias Green (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Internal waves in the Irish Sea' Physical Oceanography and Climate Seminars. (Friday 12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences, Menai Bridge)

10 October 2008 - Phil Comeau (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) 'Management of boreal mixedwoods in western Canada'. Life and Environment Seminars. (Friday 1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, Bangor University)

14 October 2008 - Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity, Dublin) 'The ethnic make-up of the seventeenth century Irish peerage' Sponsored by Bangor, History – from Bangor. Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) Video Link Research Seminars, 2008/9 in collaboration with MEMO (Swansea University) and the Department of English, Lampeter University. (5.00pm, Video suites at: Dean Street, Bangor. Room 222, James Callaghan Building, Swansea. Hugh Owen Library, Penglais, Aberystwyth. Conference Room 1 / 2, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Room D06, Media Building, Lampeter)

14 October 2008 - Anthony Pryer (Goldsmiths, University of London) 'Reproduction, Interpretation and Making Music: Performance as the Bermuda Triangle of Musical Ontology'. School of Music Research Seminars. (5.00pm, Lecture Hall, School of Music)

15 October 2008 - Dr Dai Griffiths (School of Arts and Humanities, Oxford Brookes University) 'Going it Alone: down-sizing the band as ‘solo projects’ in recent Welsh music (the further adventures of Cerys, Kelly, James Dean, Gruff and Euros)'. (3.45pm, WISCA seminar room)

16 October 2008 - Andrew Kirkman (Rutgers University) 'The Profane Made Sacred: Outside Texts and Music in the Mass in the Later Middle Ages'. Medieval Seminar Series (5.00pm, HRC/WISCA Seminar Room, 5.00 pm)

17 October 2008 - Yousof Al-Rashada (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'The population dynamics on plaice in The Irish Sea (2004 & 2005)' and Jitka Libertinova (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Geochemical proxies in vent mussel shells as indicators of environmental conditions at hydrothermal vents'. Seminars in Biology and Geology. (Friday 12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences, Menai Bridge)

17 October 2008 - Paul Somerfield (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) 'Relatedness: an additional axis of biodiversity'. Life and Environment Seminars. (Friday 1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, Bangor University)

20 October 2008 - Prof Janet Holmes (Victoria University of Wellington) 'Women, men and leadership: constructing complex identities through talk at work'. Linguistics Circle 2008/09 Research Seminars. (4.00pm, the Linguistics Seminar Room)

21 October 2008 - Martin M’Caw (PhD student at Bangor University) ‘Rev. William Hughes and the Congo Training Institute in Colwyn Bay’. School of Theology and Religious Studies Research Seminar. (1.15pm, WISCA, seminar room).

21 October 2008 - Dr Olivia Corcoran (University of East London) 'Analysis of biomarkers in herbal medicines - a storm in a teacup?' Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Seminars. (4.15pm, Orton Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Chemistry Tower, School of Chemistry)

22 October 2008 - Dr Eva Rodriguez-Gonzalez (Miami University, Ohio) 'Influence of phonological similarity in the Spanish morphological verb system'. Linguistics Circle 2008/09 Research Seminars. (2.00pm, the Linguistics Seminar Room)

22 October 2008 - Laura Rorato (Bangor University) 'Speaking Through Paintings: The Potential of Self-Reflection as a Mode of Reading and Representation'. Modern Languages Research Forum. (2.00pm, Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts Building)

24 - 26 October 2008 - International Conference on Models of Interaction in Bilinguals. ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice. (Contact details: Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382559. Email: dilys.hughes@bangor.ac.uk)

24 - 25 October 2008 - Conference, 'Creating Second Lives: Reading and Writing Virtual Communities'. (School of Creative Studies and Media / National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries™ (NIECI))

24 October 2008 - Zhiu Liu (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Instability of baroclinic tidal flow in a stratified fjord' and Flo Verspecht (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Residual circulation and horizontal density gradients in the Liverpool Bay region of freshwater influence' Physical Oceanography and Climate Seminars. (Friday 12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences, Menai Bridge)

24 October 2008 - Phil Putwain (University of Liverpool) 'Ecological restoration in practice: how do we achieve sustainable outcomes?' Life and Environment Seminars. (Friday 1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, Bangor University)

28 October 2008 - Dr Liam Semler (Sydney) 'Margaret Cavendish the liar' Sponsored by IMEMS – from Bangor. Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) Video Link Research Seminars, 2008/9 in collaboration with MEMO (Swansea University) and the Department of English, Lampeter University. (5.00pm, Video suites at: Dean Street, Bangor. Room 222, James Callaghan Building, Swansea. Hugh Owen Library, Penglais, Aberystwyth. Conference Room 1 / 2, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Room D06, Media Building, Lampeter)

28 October 2008 - Robert Normandeau (Université de Montréal). Composer in Residence. School of Music Research Seminars. (5.00pm, Lecture Hall, School of Music)

29 October 2008 - Dr Lucy Donaldson (Bristol University, Medical School) 'Physiology of Taste' (1.00pm, Main Hall, School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science)

31 October 2008 - Gareth Johnson (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Facilitation and biodiversity' and Dr Frederico Batista (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Mitochondrial DNA variation in native and introduced oyster species in Europe'. Seminars in Biology and Geology. (Friday 12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences, Menai Bridge)

November:

3 November 2008 - Dr Marcus Collins (Bangor) 'The Beatles and the Permissive Society.' Ekaterina Emeliantseva (Zurich/Basle) 'Laboratories for “Bio-Robots”: The Technological Development of Soviet nuclear submarines and its crews’ “emotional regime”. Chair: Dr Alexander Sedlmaier. History Research Seminars. (Monday, 5.00-7.00 pm, Room G1, Main Arts Building. Organizer: PD Dr Christian Koller)

4 November 2008 - Kenneth Padley (Anglican Chaplain at Bangor University). ‘Arminian historiography in Gilbert Burnet’. School of Theology and Religious Studies Research Seminar. (1.15pm, Greek Room)

5 November 2008 - Dr Leticia Pablos (University of Reading) 'The role of agreement in the licensing of NPI constructions in Spanish and Basque'. Linguistics Circle 2008/09 Research Seminars. (2.00pm, the Linguistics Seminar Room)

5 November 2008 - Carol Tully (Bangor University) ‘The German Romantics on Tour: Exploring the Welsh Connection’ Modern Languages Research Forum. (2.00pm, Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts Building)

7 November 2008 - Shaun Russell (Wales Environment Research Hub) 'Between a rock and a hard place: setting conservation priorities in the Cape Horn region of southern Chile'. Life and Environment Seminars. (Friday 1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, Bangor University)

8-9 November 2008 - Fourth Bangor Colloquium on Medieval Wales. History, Welsh History and Archaeology.

11 November 2008 - Dr Alexander Samson (University College, London) 'Last thoughts on a windmill: Fletcher and Cervantes' Sponsored by Lampeter – from Lampeter. Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) Video Link Research Seminars, 2008/9 in collaboration with MEMO (Swansea University) and the Department of English, Lampeter University. (5.00pm, Video suites at: Dean Street, Bangor. Room 222, James Callaghan Building, Swansea. Hugh Owen Library, Penglais, Aberystwyth. Conference Room 1 / 2, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Room D06, Media Building, Lampeter)

12 November 2008 - Dr Katie Gramich (School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University) "‘I came hither a stranger…’: elective Welsh identity in modern women’s writing" (3.45 pm,WISCA seminar room)

12 November 2008 - Dr Ross Roberts "Did I ride the cellophane bridge or enter via the tradesman's entrance? Investigating the relationship between psuedoneglect and the nature of putting errors in golf" (1.00pm, Main Hall, School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science)

14 November 2008 - Gabriela Torres (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Effects of salinity on growth of decapod crustacean larvae' and Dr Alan Wanamaker (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'New insights on transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age north of Iceland'. Seminars in Biology and Geology. (Friday 12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences, Menai Bridge)

14 November 2008 - David Mabberley (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew) 'The Citrus story'. Life and Environment Seminars. (Friday 1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, Bangor University)

18 November 2008 - Prof Andrew Hiscock (Professor of English at Bangor University) ‘’Better a few things well pondered, than to trouble the memory with too much’: Troubling Memory and Martyr in Foxe’s Acts and Monuments’. School of Theology and Religious Studies Research Seminar. (1.15pm, WISCA, seminar room).

18 November 2008 - Professor Peter Skabara (University of Strathclyde) 'Plastic Electronics - from organic lasers to the world's smallest television screen'. Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Seminars. (4.15pm, Orton Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Chemistry Tower, School of Chemistry)

18 November 2008 - Tristian Evans (Bangor University) 'Analysing Multimedia'. School of Music Research Seminars. (5.00pm, Lecture Hall, School of Music)

19 November 2008 - Dr Sebastian Hoffmann (Lancaster University) 'Corpus linguistics and the Internet' Linguistics Circle 2008/09 Research Seminars. (2.00pm, the Linguistics Seminar Room)

19 November 2008 - Helena Miguélez Carballeira (Bangor University) 'Sentimental Discourse and New Perspectives in Galician Literary History’ Modern Languages Research Forum. (2.00pm, Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts Building)

19 November 2008 - (We apologise - but please note that this seminar has been cancelled) Gareth Hall (Department of Psychology, Aberystwyth University) 'Team performances and sport fans’ social identity' (3.45 pm,WISCA seminar room)

20 November 2008 - Ms. Uzoamaka Anagbogu, Mr. Minh B Nguyen and Ms. Hayley Owen 'Research Interests' (3pm-4pm, Room: A2.01, School of Law)

21 November 2008 - Dan Conley (University of Plymouth) 'Nearshore bar migration and sediment-induced buoyancy effects' Physical Oceanography and Climate Seminars. (Friday 12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences, Menai Bridge)

21 November 2008 - Steve Banwart (University of Sheffield) 'Biogeochemistry at the cell-mineral interface'. Life and Environment Seminars. (Friday 1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, Bangor University)

25 November 2008 - Dr Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent) 'Lions, tigers and bears: encounters with animal imagery in crusade sources' Sponsored by MEMO – from Swansea. Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) Video Link Research Seminars, 2008/9 in collaboration with MEMO (Swansea University) and the Department of English, Lampeter University. (5.00pm, Video suites at: Dean Street, Bangor. Room 222, James Callaghan Building, Swansea. Hugh Owen Library, Penglais, Aberystwyth. Conference Room 1 / 2, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Room D06, Media Building, Lampeter)

25 November 2008 - Professor Ian Manners (University of Bristol) 'Functional and Supramolecular Metallopolymers'. Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Seminars. (4.15pm, Orton Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Chemistry Tower, School of Chemistry)

28 November 2008 - Tom Broadbent (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Eocene Oligocene transition - A tropical Pacific perspective' and Dr Iain Ridgway (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Arctica islandica: a new model species for ageing research'. Seminars in Biology and Geology. (Friday 12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences, Menai Bridge)

28 November 2008 - Peter Bunyard, Science editor, The Ecologist. 'Life, climate and the Amazon'. Life and Environment Seminars. (Friday 1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, Bangor University)

December:

1 December 2008 - Professor Bruce O'Brien (Mary Washington) 'How English law has been written'. Chair: Dr Marc Hagger. History Research Seminars. (Monday, 5.00-7.00 pm, Room G1, Main Arts Building. Organizer: PD Dr Christian Koller)

2 December 2008 - Dr Patrick Mulqueen (Syngenta UK) 'Formulation of Crop Protection Agents-New Technologies and Challenges'. Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Seminars. (4.15pm, Orton Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Chemistry Tower, School of Chemistry)

3 December 2008 - Dr James Medhurst (Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University), 'Servant of Two Tongues: ITV and national identity in Wales’. (3.45 pm,WISCA seminar room)

3 December 2008 - Professor Justin Edwards (School of English) 'Law and Literature' (2pm-4pm, Room: A1.06, School of Law)

3 December 2008 - Dr Patrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh) 'Butties from the chippy outside Sevvie: Templatic phonology in Liverpool English.' Linguistics Circle 2008/09 Research Seminars. (2.00pm, Linguistics Seminar Room, Main Arts Building)

3 December 2008 - Professor Michael Cronin (Dublin City University) 'Seeing is not believing: Translation and Hollywood' Translation in Context Annual Lecture. (6.00pm, Main Arts Lecture Theatre)

5 December 2008 - Professor Gareth Edwards-Jones (School of the Environment and Natural Resources, Bangor University) 'Can eating local food save the planet?'. Life and Environment Seminars. (Friday 1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, Bangor University)

5 December 2008 - Kerry Marten (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Small scale near shore sedimentary processes' and Dr Jaco Baas (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'On sediment transport'. Physical Oceanography and Climate seminars (Friday 12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences, Menai Bridge)

5 December 2008 - Stefan van der Stigchel (Utrecht University) 'Competition and inhibition in the oculomotor system.' (4.00pm, Brigantia, Room 342, School of Psychology)

9 December 2008 - Dr Elisabeth Salter (Aberystwyth). 'Listening to the little books: evidence for popular reading c1400-1600'. Sponsored by IMEMS - from Aberystwyth. Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) Video Link Research Seminars, 2008/9 in collaboration with MEMO (Swansea University) and the Department of English, Lampeter University. (5.00pm, Video suites at: Dean Street, Bangor. Room 222, James Callaghan Building, Swansea. Hugh Owen Library, Penglais, Aberystwyth. Conference Room 1 / 2, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Room D06, Media Building, Lampeter)

10 December 2008 - Professor Robert Moore (Liverpool University) 'Further Reflections on Community Studies' School of Social Sciences Research Seminar (Wednesday 12.00 pm, Lecture Room 3, Main Arts Building)

12 December 2008 - Dr Hilmar Hinz (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Trawls disturbance on benthic communities: chronic effects and experimental predictions' and Tom Gallagher (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'The impact of the common starfish, Asterias rubens, on a commercial mussel bed in the Menai Strait' (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) Seminars in Biology and Geology. (Friday 12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences, Menai Bridge)

12 December 2008 - Paul Shaw (Royal Holloway, University of London) 'Molecular ecology of aquatic animals (title to be confirmed'. Life and Environment Seminars. (Friday 1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, Bangor University)

19 December 2008 - Clinton Winant (Scripps Institute of Oceanography, California) 'To be confirmed'. Physical Oceanography and Climate Seminars. (Friday 12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences, Menai Bridge)

January:

13 January 2009 - Professor Andrew Hadfield (Sussex) 'Self publicity and polemic in early modern literary London'. Sponsored by Aberystwyth, English – from Aberystwyth. Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) Video Link Research Seminars, 2008/9 in collaboration with MEMO (Swansea University) and the Department of English, Lampeter University. (5.00pm, Video suites at: Dean Street, Bangor. Room 222, James Callaghan Building, Swansea. Hugh Owen Library, Penglais, Aberystwyth. Conference Room 1 / 2, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Room D06, Media Building, Lampeter)

13 January 2009 - Elaine Kelly (University of Edinburgh) 'A Winter’s Tale: Romanticism and Artistic Discontent in the late GDR'. School of Music Research Seminars. (5.00pm, Lecture Hall, School of Music)

16 January 2009 - Yueng-Djenn Lenn (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Vertical mixing at intermediate depths in the Arctic boundary current.' Physical Oceanography and Climate Seminars (12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences)

16 January 2009 - Bethanna Jackson (Victoria University, New Zealand) 'Development of tools supporting rural land management planning from multiple sustainability perspectives'. Life and Environment Seminars. (1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, School of the Environment and Natural Resources)

27 January 2009 - Professor Linne Moonie (York) 'The scribe of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales'. Sponsored by IMEMS – from Aberystwyth. Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) Video Link Research Seminars, 2008/9 in collaboration with MEMO (Swansea University) and the Department of English, Lampeter University. (5.00pm, Video suites at: Dean Street, Bangor. Room 222, James Callaghan Building, Swansea. Hugh Owen Library, Penglais, Aberystwyth. Conference Room 1 / 2, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Room D06, Media Building, Lampeter)

28 January 2009 - Professor David Byrne (Durham Unviersity) 'Applying Social Science - some key methodological issues' School of Social Sciences Research Seminars. (12:00 – 1:00pm, Lecture Room 1, Main Arts Building)

30 January 2009 - Simon Neill (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Evolution of the wave climate over the NW European shelf seas during the last 12,000 years.' Kerry Martins (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Field observations of small-scale ripples: determining wave/current dominance'. Physical Oceanography and Climate Seminars (12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences)

30 January 2009 - Lloyd Peck (British Antarctic Survey) 'Antarctic marine ectotherms: adaptation, resilience and climate change'. Life and Environment Seminars. (1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, School of the Environment and Natural Resources)

February:

2 February 2009 - Stephen Gregg (School of Theology & Religious Studies, Trinity College, Carmarthen) 'The New Atheism Debate: Global Responses to Global Questions?’ School of Theology and Religious Studies, Research Seminar, Semester 2. (2:15 pm, WISCA seminar room, Main Arts Building)

3 February 2009 - Professor Kenneth Seddon (Queen's University, Belfast) 'Title to be confirmed'. Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Seminars. (4.15pm, Orton Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Chemistry Tower, School of Chemistry)

3 February 2009 - Graeme Cotterill (Bangor University) 'Grace Williams’s ‘Missa Cambrensis’: Masterpiece or Mere Mass?'. School of Music Research Seminars. (5.00pm, Lecture Hall, School of Music)

6 February 2009 - Barry Lomax (University of Nottingham) 'Changes in UV-B radiation over geological time'. Life and Environment Seminars. (1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, School of the Environment and Natural Resources)

9 February 2009 - Professor Huw Pryce (Bangor University) 'Race, archaeology and the origins of the Welsh in the late Victorian era'. Dr Stephen Church (Norwich) 'The preservation of royal sepulchral monuments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries based around King John's tomb at Worcester'. Chair: Professor Raimund Karl. History Research Seminars. (Monday, 5.00-7.00 pm, Room G1, Main Arts Building. Organizer: PD Dr Christian Koller)

10 February 2009 - Dr Andrew Gordon (Aberdeen) 'Memory and remembrance in Thomas Middleton'. Sponsored by Lampeter – from Lampeter. Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) Video Link Research Seminars, 2008/9 in collaboration with MEMO (Swansea University) and the Department of English, Lampeter University. (5.00pm, Video suites at: Dean Street, Bangor. Room 222, James Callaghan Building, Swansea. Hugh Owen Library, Penglais, Aberystwyth. Conference Room 1 / 2, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Room D06, Media Building, Lampeter)

11 February 2009 - Jordi Cornellà Detrell (Bangor University) ‘The Uncertain Glory of Francoist Censorship: Censorial Interventions in Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and Sales’ Incerta Gloria’. Modern Languages Research Forum. (2.00pm, Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts Building)

11 February 2009 - Professor Philip Stenning (Keele University) 'Law enforcement, politics and 'the public interest': some recent controversies'. School of Social Sciences Research Seminars. (12:00 – 1:00pm, Lecture Room 1, Main Arts Building)

13 February 2009 - Mattias Green (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Tidal mixing and the Meridional Overturning Circulation.' Physical Oceanography and Climate Seminars (12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences)

13 February 2009 - Christopher van der Gast (NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Oxford) 'Anthropogenic disturbance affects the structure of microbial communities'. Life and Environment Seminars. (1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, School of the Environment and Natural Resources)

17 February 2009 - Professor Ray Jones (Loughborough University) 'Title to be confirmed'. Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Seminars. (4.15pm, Orton Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Chemistry Tower, School of Chemistry)

17 February 2009 - Andrew Pinnock (University of Southampton) 'A Double Vision of Albion: John Dryden's Dream for Patriotic Opera, and its Furtive Realization in ‘King Arthur’. School of Music Research Seminars. (5.00pm, Lecture Hall, School of Music)

18 February 2009 - Mr. Brunstrum (North Wales Chief Constable) 'Policing in Wales - a constitutional perspective'' (2pm-3pm, Room: A.1.01, Allun Building, School of Law)

20 February 2009 - James Morison (Forest Research) 'Managing the greenhouse gas balance of UK forestry'. Life and Environment Seminars. (1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, School of the Environment and Natural Resources)

21 February 2009 - One-day interdisciplinary workshop on Nineteenth-century French Poetry, 'Transpositions of Thought and Form in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond'. Organised by Dr Helen Abbott (School of Modern Languages) with invited speakers Professor Peter Dayan (Edinburgh), Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol) and Dr Patrick McGuinnes (Oxford)

24 February 2009 - Professor Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary, London) 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards'. Sponsored by Aberystwyth, History – from Swansea. Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) Video Link Research Seminars, 2008/9 in collaboration with MEMO (Swansea University) and the Department of English, Lampeter University. (5.00pm, Video suites at: Dean Street, Bangor. Room 222, James Callaghan Building, Swansea. Hugh Owen Library, Penglais, Aberystwyth. Conference Room 1 / 2, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Room D06, Media Building, Lampeter)

25 February 2009 - Isabelle Vanderschelden (Manchester Metropolitan University)
‘Luc Besson’s Ambition: EuropaCorp, a European Major for the 21st Century’. Modern Languages Research Forum. (2.00pm, Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts Building)

25 February 2009 - Dr Brian Brown (De Montfort University) 'Unpicking leadership in health care: The clinical governance of the soul'. School of Social Sciences Research Seminars. (12:00 – 1:00pm, Lecture Room 1, Main Arts Building)

27 February 2009 - Flo Verspecht (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Residual circulation and stratification in the Liverpool Bay region of freshwater influence'. Kirstin Taylor (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) TBA. Physical Oceanography and Climate Seminars (12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences)

28 February 2009 - Stuart Piertney (University of Aberdeen) 'Parasites, pestilence and sexual preference: the evolutionary ecology of the major histocompatibility complex'. Life and Environment Seminars. (1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, School of the Environment and Natural Resources)

March:

2 March 2009 - Sion Rhys Llwyd (PhD student at Bangor University) ‘R. Tudur Jones: The independent and independence - Welsh Nationalistic Calvinism?’ School of Theology and Religious Studies, Research Seminar, Semester 2. (2:15 pm, WISCA seminar room, Main Arts Building)

4 March 2009 - Reverend Kenneth Padley (Bangor University) 'Is God dead? The secularisation debate in ministerial perspective'. School of Social Sciences Research Seminars. (12:00 – 1:00pm, Lecture Room 1, Main Arts Building)

5 March 2009 - Professor Christopher Pollock (Aberystwyth University) 'Title to be confirmed'. Society of Chemical Industry Lecture. (5.30pm, Orton Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Chemistry Tower, School of Chemistry)

6 March 2009 - CANCELLED - Representative of a central bank : 'Micro-economics in China' (3pm-5pm, Room: A2.01, Allun Building, School of Law)

6 March 2009 - Mark Rayment (School of the Environment and Natural Resources, Bangor University) 'Sinners’ balm: carbon offsets and sustainable development'. Life and Environment Seminars. (1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, School of the Environment and Natural Resources)

9 March 2009 - Dr Luís M. Calvo Salgado (Zurich) 'Oral History and the Spanish Civil War'. Presentation of the film “Hans Hutter – A Swiss in the Spanish Civil War” (CH 2006) Chair: Dr Andrew Edwards. History Research Seminars. (Monday, 5.00-7.00 pm, Room G1, Main Arts Building. Organizer: PD Dr Christian Koller)

10 March 2009 - Dr Katherine Lewis (Huddersfield). ' '"The man who was almost not a man": gender and virility in the cult and miracles of late medieval saints'. Sponsored by MEMO – from Swansea. Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) Video Link Research Seminars, 2008/9 in collaboration with MEMO (Swansea University) and the Department of English, Lampeter University. (5.00pm, Video suites at: Dean Street, Bangor. Room 222, James Callaghan Building, Swansea. Hugh Owen Library, Penglais, Aberystwyth. Conference Room 1 / 2, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Room D06, Media Building, Lampeter)

10 March 2009 - Nicholas Attfield (St Catherine’s College, Oxford) 'Bruckner’s Breakthrough, Mahler’s Modernism'. School of Music Research Seminars. (5.00pm, Lecture Hall, School of Music)

11 March 2009 - Armelle Blin-Roland (Bangor University) ‘Voice in Queneau’s Zazie dans le metro: Ventriloquism and Cacophony in a Textual World’. Postgraduate Forum. (2.00pm, Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts Building)

11 March 2009 - Dr Roger Slack (Bangor University) 'Seeing and Hearing As: On Instructed Actions'. School of Social Sciences Research Seminars. (12:00 – 1:00pm, Lecture Room 1, Main Arts Building)

13 March 2009 - Ms. Claire Howell (Aston University) 'Corporate governance in a not for profit company: the board of a Registered Social Landlord' (2pm-4pm, Room: A.2.01, Allun Building, School of Law)

13 March 2009 - Richard Law (University of York) 'Body size and dynamics of biomass in marine ecosystems'. Life and Environment Seminars. (1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, School of the Environment and Natural Resources)

13 March 2009 - Peter Williams (Bangor University) 'A Look Back at the Major Advances over the Past 25 Years in Oceanography: Seeking the Provenance of Ideas' (12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences)

16 March 2009 - Dr Jenny Blain (Sheffield Hallam University) ‘Sacred Sites’. School of Theology and Religious Studies, Research Seminar, Semester 2. (2:15 pm, WISCA seminar room, Main Arts Building)

17 March 2009 - Professor William Kerr (University of Strathclyde) 'Advancing Synthetic Organic Methods by Interfacing with Inorganic Intelligence'. Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Seminars. (4.15pm, Orton Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Chemistry Tower, School of Chemistry)

18 March 2009 - Round table on music and identity in contemporary France. This event is organised jointly between the School of Modern Languages at Bangor University and the Association for Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF) North West group. Confirmed speakers so far: Barbara Lebrun (Manchester University), Jonathan Ervine (Bangor University), Ellie Sutcliffe (Bangor University). For more information, contact Jonathan Ervine (e-mail: j.ervine@bangor.ac.uk). (provisional venue: Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts Building)

20 March 2009 - Bruce Nicoll (Forest Research) 'Improvements in anchorage provided by the acclimation of forest trees to wind stress'. Life and Environment Seminars. (1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, School of the Environment and Natural Resources)

23 March 2009 - Dr Paul Oldfield (Manchester) 'The kingdom of Sicily and its contribution to the early European university movement (c.1180–c.1250)'.
Alisa Miller (Oxford) 'Trading Ideals: Rupert Brooke, Great Britain and the United States, 1915–1918'. Chair: Professor Huw Pryce. History Research Seminars. (Monday, 5.00-7.00 pm, Room G1, Main Arts Building. Organizer: PD Dr Christian Koller)

24 March 2009 - Dr Carol Meale (Bristol). 'Ecclecticism and the late medieval reader: commonplace books or miscellany?' Sponsored by IMEMS – from Aberystwyth. Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) Video Link Research Seminars, 2008/9 in collaboration with MEMO (Swansea University) and the Department of English, Lampeter University. (5.00pm, Video suites at: Dean Street, Bangor. Room 222, James Callaghan Building, Swansea. Hugh Owen Library, Penglais, Aberystwyth. Conference Room 1 / 2, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Room D06, Media Building, Lampeter)

24 March 2009 - Berta Joncus (St Anne’s College and St Hilda’s College, Oxford) '‘And Fashion makes me Sing’: Eighteenth-Century English Ballad Opera and the Birth of a Popular Music Industry'. School of Music Research Seminars. (5.00pm, Lecture Hall, School of Music)

25 March 2009 - Mr Martin Hyde (Sheffield Hallam) 'Hunting Unicorns? Exploring the link between labour market exit and health'. School of Social Sciences Research Seminars. (12:00 – 1:00pm, Lecture Room 1, Main Arts Building)

27 March 2009 - Jeff Polton (Proudman Lab, Liverpool) 'Rapid generation of high-frequency internal waves beneath a wind and wave forced oceanic surface mixed layer'. Physical Oceanography and Climate Seminars (12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences)

27 March 2009 - Laura Rival (University of Oxford) 'Wealth, capital, property and value: an anthropological study of ecosystem services in the Ecuadorian Amazon'. Life and Environment Seminars. (1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, School of the Environment and Natural Resources)

27 March 2009 - Jeff Polton (Proudman Lab, Liverpool) 'Rapid generation of high-frequency internal waves beneath a wind and wave forced oceanic surface mixed layer' (12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences)

April:

20 April 2009 - Dr. Jackie Jones (University of West England Bristol) 'The (d)evolving criminal justice system for Wales' (2-4pm, Room: A1.01, Allun Building, School of Law)

20 April 2009 - Dr Grant Tapsell (St Andrews) 'The Language of Politics and the Politics of Language in the English Revolution.' Dr George Southcombe (Oxford) 'Muckworm wordlings, scarlet stains and glorious lovers: the varieties and uses of dissenting verse, 1660–1700.' Chair: Dr Paul Cavill. History Research Seminars. (Monday, 5.00-7.00 pm, Room G1, Main Arts Building. Organizer: PD Dr Christian Koller)

21 April 2009 - Dr Andrea Russell (University of Southampton) 'Title to be confirmed'. Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Seminars. (4.15pm, Orton Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Chemistry Tower, School of Chemistry)

21 April 2009 - Susan Rankin (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) 'How Ritual Changes Space:
from Pantheon to Sancta Maria ad Martyres'. School of Music Research Seminars. (5.00pm, Lecture Hall, School of Music)

22 April 2009 - Dr Iain Wilkinson (University of Kent) 'Social Suffering: From Protest to Reform'. School of Social Sciences Research Seminars. (12:00 – 1:00pm, Lecture Room 1, Main Arts Building)

24 April 2009 - Grant Bigg (Sheffield University) TBA. Physical Oceanography and Climate Seminars (12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences)

24 April 2009 - Roger Thorpe (School of Biological Sciences, Bangor University) 'Darwin 200 lecture: The evolution of Caribbean Island anoles'. Life and Environment Seminars. (1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, School of the Environment and Natural Resources)

24 April 2009 - Grant Bigg (Sheffield University) TBA (12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences)

27 April 2009 - PD Dr Christian Koller (Bangor) 'Striking under the austro-fascist regime, 1933–1938.' Dr Jill Lewis (Swansea) 'The 1950 strikes in Austria.' Chair: Professor Anthony Bushell. History Research Seminars. (Monday, 5.00-7.00 pm, Room G1, Main Arts Building. Organizer: PD Dr Christian Koller)

27 April 2009 - Professor Andrew Hiscock (Professor of English at Bangor University) ‘’Better a few things well pondered, than to trouble the memory with too much’: Troubling Memory and Martyr in Foxe’s Acts and Monuments’. School of Theology and Religious Studies, Research Seminar, Semester 2. (2:15 pm, WISCA seminar room, Main Arts Building)

29 April 2009 - Lyn Marven (Liverpool University) ‘Berlin is famous for the Wall, which no longer exists’: The Persistence of East Berlin in the Contemporary City.’ Modern Languages Research Forum. (2.00pm, Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts Building)

May:

6 May 2009 - Dr Martina Feilzer (Bangor University) 'Developing pragmatism as a research paradigm for mixed-methods research'. School of Social Sciences Research Seminars. (12:00 – 1:00pm, Lecture Room 1, Main Arts Building)

8 May 2009 - Paul Butler (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'A history of stratification in the Irish Sea over the 500 years based on a Arctica Islandica Chronology' Physical Oceanography and Climate Seminars (12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences)

8 May 2009 - Cock van Oosterhout (University of Hull) 'The evolution of vertebrate immune genes, the MHC'. Life and Environment Seminars. (1.10 pm, Room G23, Thoday Building, School of the Environment and Natural Resources)

19 May 2009 - Professor Liz McAvoy (Swansea). 'Mapping the Borderlands and Conceiving Stability: The Anchorites of the Welsh Marches'. Sponsored by MEMO – from Swansea. Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) Video Link Research Seminars, 2008/9 in collaboration with MEMO (Swansea University) and the Department of English, Lampeter University. (5.00pm, Video suites at: Dean Street, Bangor. Room 222, James Callaghan Building, Swansea. Hugh Owen Library, Penglais, Aberystwyth. Conference Room 1 / 2, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Room D06, Media Building, Lampeter)

20 May 2009 - Professor Paul Higgs (UCL) 'Theorising Class in Later Life'. School of Social Sciences Research Seminars. (12:00 – 1:00pm, TBC)

22 May 2009 - Alan Wanamaker (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'A 1000-Year Shell-Derived Record of Environmental Change from the North Icelandic Shelf'. Kath Braithwaite (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Observations of Particle Density and Scattering in the Tamar Estuary' (12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences)

June

2 June 2009 - Dr Sarah Alyn-Stacey (Trinity, Dublin). 'Paradox and Politics: Franco-Savoyard Relations in the Work of Marc-Claude de Buttet (1554-). Sponsored by Bangor, English – from Bangor. Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) Video Link Research Seminars, 2008/9 in collaboration with MEMO (Swansea University) and the Department of English, Lampeter University. (5.00pm, Video suites at: Dean Street, Bangor. Room 222, James Callaghan Building, Swansea. Hugh Owen Library, Penglais, Aberystwyth. Conference Room 1 / 2, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Room D06, Media Building, Lampeter)

3 June 2009 - Dr David Calvey (MMU) 'Covert research in the social sciences: the submerged tradition of faking it'. School of Social Sciences Research Seminars. (12:00 – 1:00pm, TBC)

5 June 2009 - James Scourse (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) 'Climate of the last millennium: Future potential' (12.00pm, Dennis Crisp Seminar Room, Craig Mair, School of Ocean Sciences)