FRUNI - Free Range University - is a national initiative about giving as many people as possible the opportunity to experience the most inspiring teaching at UK universities, as voted for by students.
FRUNI Open Lecture Series
Exeter Students’ Guild is delighted to announce the dates for Exeter’s first ever “Fruni” (Free Range University) series. This initiative sees us joining other institutions across the UK in becoming “free-range”, inviting everyone to experience the most inspirational research and teaching on offer at our university. Last term, hundreds of students voted for the research at Exeter that they wanted everyone to know about, and now that voting has closed, a special series of open lectures will begin. The top 5 researchers at the University will present their work in the Alumni Auditorium, and there will be an opportunity for questions and a drinks reception for all to enjoy.
Lecture 1: Simulating Reality: From Cricket to Crickets
Dr Philippe Young
With opening speech from Professor Nick Talbot, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Knowledge Transfer
Date: Monday 21 January 2013, 7pm-9pm
Location: Alumni Auditorium, The Forum, Streatham Campus, with video link to Peter Lanyon Seminar Room 10, Cornwall Campus
Lecture 2: Paradigm Lost: the earliest colonization of the Americas
Professor Bruce Bradley
Date: Monday 28 January 2013, 7pm-9pm
Location: Alumni Auditorium, The Forum, Streatham Campus, with video link to Peter Lanyon Seminar Room 10, Cornwall Campus
Lecture 3: Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III
Professor Philip Schywzer
Date: Monday 4th February, 7pm-9pm
Location: Alumni Auditorium, The Forum, Streatham Campus, with video link to Peter Lanyon Seminar Room 10, Cornwall Campus
Lecture 4: Whatever it Takes to Understand
Why Studying English in a Digital Age Might Mean Not Being Scared of Science
(or Philosophy, or Biology, or Neuropsychology, or Art History, or Computers, or Math, or Technology, or...)
Dr Matthew Hayler
Date: Monday 11 February 2013, 7pm-9pm
Location: Alumni Auditorium, The Forum, Streatham Campus, with video link to Peter Lanyon Seminar Room 10, Cornwall Campus
Lecture 5: The Lawyer, Ethics and Popular Culture: Legal Heroes and Practicing Villains
Craig Newbery-Jones
With closing speech from Professor Janice Kay (Deputy Vice Chancellor Education)
Date: Monday 18 February 2013, 7pm-9pm
Location: Alumni Auditorium, The Forum, Streatham Campus, with video link to Peter Lanyon Seminar Room 10, Cornwall Campus
