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Saturday 22 June 2013 (booking now)
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Diary of events 2013

See:  May I June

Our events listings are updated on a daily basis. If you have an event you would like included please e-mail: comms@essex.ac.uk

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The world premiere of nobel laureate Derek Walcott's new play O Starry, Starry Night is on from Thursday 2 May to Saturday 4 May at the Lakeside Theatre at the Colchester Campus. The cast includes Martina Laird and Wendell Manwarren, pictured. Book online.

Our venues also have their own dedicated websites:

May 2013

Monday 20 May

Essex Business School Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Global Strategy Seminar – Professor Tomasz Mickiewicz (Aston Business School): ‘Mercy or Rigour: Do harsher bankruptcy laws deter entrepreeurs? A cross-country study’.  2pm.  Gateway Building, Southend campus. A free event but please e-mail to book a place zhangs@essex.ac.uk.

Tuesday 21 May

Raw Festival – University of Essex Theatre Arts Society. An eclectic mix of theatre, live music, dance and much more. Tuesday 21 – Thursday 23 May. Lakeside Theatre. 7.30pm. For further information visit www.lakesidetheatre.org.uk.

Thursday 23 May

Centre for Film Studies film screening Red Road (Andrea Arnold, UK, 2006).  LTB 10. 7pm.

Friday 24 May

Lakeside Theatre – Mushrooms. Lakeside Theatre. 7.30pm. Friday 24 – Saturday 25 May. For further information visit www.lakesidetheatre.org.uk.

Lakeside Theatre: The Hook. Lakeside Theatre Café. For further information please visit www.lakesidetheatre.org.uk.

Wednesday 29 May

Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies Freud Memorial Lecture 2013 - Julian Lousada: 'The Unspeakable and the Unbearable - the fear of contamination'. 6pm. Lakeside Theatre. For further information please visit the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies webpage.

Lakeside Theatre – Short Sharp Shock: Three Pinter plays. Lakeside Theatre. 7.45pm. Wednesday 29 – Friday 31 May. For further information visit www.lakesidetheatre.org.uk.

Thursday 30 May

International Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Annual Entrepreneurship Lecture 2012-2013: Professor Zoltan J Acs (George Mason University, USA): 'Why Philanthropy matters: How giving contributes to entrepreneurship and economic well-being'. Followed by a panel discussion chaired by John Edmondson, Managing Director of IP Publishing Ltd, with Sergio Arzeni, Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development, OECD, Paris and Ralph Schonenbach, CEO, Trestle Foundation, Switzerland.  5pm-8pm. Durham Street Auditorium, Royal Society of Arts, 8 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6EZ.  This event is free and open to the public but please book a place via the website: http://whyphilanthropymatters.eventbrite.co.uk/# as seats are limited. Please contact Alina Jipa for further details.

Centre for Film Studies film screening Rhino season  (Fasle Kargadan, Turkey/Iran, 2012).  LTB 10. 7pm.

Lakeside Theatre – Our share of tomorrow. Lakeside Theatre. 7.30pm. For further information visit www.lakesidetheatre.org.uk

Friday 31 May

Lakeside Theatre: The Hook. At Zest. For further information please visit www.lakesidetheatre.org.uk.

June

Thursday 6 June

Centre for Film Studies film screeningBarbara (Christian Petzold, Germany, 2012). LTB 10. 7pm.

Thursday 13 June

Centre for Film Studies film screeningThe Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA, 2012). LTB 10. 7pm.

Monday 17 June

Lakeside Theatre Writers. Workshop 3: On its Feet. 7.00pm-9.30pm. For further information please visit www.lakesidetheatre.org.uk.

Thursday 20 June

Department of Language and Linguistics Seminar – Birgit Hellwig (La Trobe University): ‘Towards documenting child language among the Qaqet of Papua New Guinea’.  Room 1N1.4.1. 4pm.

Centre for Film Studies film screeningGinger and Rosa (Sally Potter, UK, 2012). LTB 10. 7pm.

Friday 21 June

Department of Language and Linguistics - 18th Postgraduate Conference in Sociolinguistics.

Thursday 26 June

Lakeside Theatre –The Essex Dionysia. Lakeside Theatre. 7.30pm. Thursday 26 – Saturday 28 June. For further information visit www.lakesidetheatre.org.uk

Thursday 27 June

Centre for Film Studies film screeningMidnight in Paris (Woody Allen, USA/France, 2011). LTB 10. 7pm.

Saturday 29 June

Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies Clinical Workshop - A Clinical Workshop in collaboration with the Institute of Psychoanalysis. Presenter: Francois Louw and Consultant Nick Temple. At the Institute for Psychoanalyis, London.  10am. For further information visit the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies webpage.

 

 

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