The 2012 Festival Lecture: The Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine

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Speaker: Professor Donald Singer and Dr Sorcha Gunne
Biography: Both from Warwick University
Date: 12/07/12
Time: 10:00
Venue: Main Theatre, LichfieldGarrick
Description: Festival Lecture. Clinical Pharmacologist Prof Donald Singer and literary studies expert Dr Sorcha Gunne (both from the University Of Warwick) discuss where medicine and poetry meet. This initiative was the winner of the 2011 Times Higher Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts.
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Summer Supper

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Speaker: Jim Dixon
Biography: Chief Executive, Peak District National Park
Date: 06/06/12
Time: 19:30
Venue: Mabel’s, Curborough Hall Farm, Lichfield
Description: Social evening with a Cold Buffet and a talk by Jim Dixon, Chief Executive, Peak District National Park. Members and their guests only.

7.00 for 7.30 pm
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Invisible cloaks and a perfect lens

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Speaker: Professor Sir John Pendry
Biography: Professor of Theoretical Solid State Physics, University of London
Date: 11/04/12
Time: 20:00
Venue: Studio Theatre, LichfieldGarrick
Description: New materials create the possibility of lenses whose resolution is limited only by manufacturing precision and cloaks that hide objects within them, but remain completely invisible to external observers.
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The Technical Challenges of conservation

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Title: THE TECHNICAL CHALLENGES OF CONSERVATION
Speaker: Chris Collins
Biography: Head of Conservation, Natural History Museum
Date: 13/03/12
Time: 20:00
Venue: Studio Theatre, LichfieldGarrick
Description: The technical challenges facing a conservator trying to preserve collections and modern methods of preserving objects ranging from Egyptian papyrus to dinosaurs, mummies to meteorites, taking in Homer on the way.
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When the south pole was green – the fossil forests of Antarctica

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Title: WHEN THE SOUTH POLE WAS GREEN – THE FOSSIL FORESTS OF ANTARCTICA
Speaker: Professor Jane Francis
Biography: Dean of the Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds
Date: 15/02/12
Time: 20:00
Venue: Studio Theatre, LichfieldGarrick
Description: Travel to Antarctica to see fossil forests, evidence that millions of years ago Antarctica was a green, forested land.
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Clinical Trials – Why do we need them?

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Speaker: Dr. Susan Bhatti
Biography: Director, International Regulatory Affairs, Premier Research, Germany
Date: 19/01/12
Time: 20:00
Venue: Studio Theatre, LichfieldGarrick
Description: Between discovering a new drug and its appearance on the market place there is a lengthy process of establishing the safety and efficacy of new medicines.
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Improving your Skin

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Speaker: Professor John McGrath
Biography: Professor of Molecular Dermatology, King’s College London
Date: 07/12/11
Time: 20:00
Venue: Main Theatre, LichfieldGarrick
Description: A better understanding of skin biology, from DNA to structural proteins, provides new insight into promoting and maintaining healthy skin.
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Life and the Cosmos

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Speaker: Professor Lord Martin Rees OM FRS
Biography: Astronomer Royal; Past President of the Royal Society; Master of Trinty College, Cambridge.
Date: 15/11/11
Time: 19:30
Venue: Main Theatre, LichfieldGarrick
Description: The 22nd Erasmus Darwin Memorial Lecture

 

Cosmic history had a mysterious ‘beginning’ nearly 14 million years ago. We understand in outline the emergence of atoms, galaxies, stars and planets — and how, on at least one planet, life emerged and developed ...

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