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About the Conference For many decades, capitalism was a concept largely ignored in the social sciences and humanities. Things have changed since the continuing global financial crisis began. Capitalism is now taken seriously not only by Marxists, but also by non-Marxian feminists, social democrats and conservatives. Yet research on how we might understand relations between...
Community and its Limits, 1745–1832, was a conference hosted by the School of English in association with the Leeds Library, and generously supported by the British Association for Romantic Studies. We’re very grateful to everyone who came, and who helped to make the two days so stimulating and enjoyable with their expert papers, incisive questions,...
Conference Rationale Philosophy is not part of the core curriculum of UK education, despite the intellectual, social and emotional benefits associated with talking and thinking together. Nevertheless, thousands of children and young people in nurseries, primary and secondary schools, and FE colleges, engage regularly in philosophical enquiry as a way to identify and address issues...
ESEE 2015 explored solutions for the transformation to a sustainable society, building on the distinctive contribution of ecological economics, by shining a spotlight on the interdependency of economic activity and natural systems, and identifying options that prioritise human wellbeing within planetary boundaries.
ICSRiM Student Conference on Music, Multimedia and Electronics (iscMME) Programme 09:30 Registration 10:00 Introduction and opening Paper session 1 (Chair: Tom Morris) 10:10 Jack Armitage, JUCE Cross-Platform C++ Library 10:30 Beatrice Bretherton, Luke Windsor and Kia Ng, Tempo and the heart 10:50 Asha Blatherwick and Jon Cobb, SenseEgg: A wireless music controller for teaching children with...
Photo-responsive Functional Surfaces for Bio-Nano Applications in Healthcare UK-India seminar is designed to generate new international collaborations to explore responsive surface molecular systems. Surfaces play a crucial role in biomedical applications including antibacterial surfaces, biosensing, tissue engineering to the controlled release of drugs. Modifying surfaces properties through the use of organic films is a well-developed...
The Leeds Doctoral College Showcase 2014 took place at the 5th annual University of Leeds Postgraduate Research Conference on Thursday 4th December 2014. Please visit https://www.leeds.ac.uk/research-leeds-doctoral-college for more information on the Leeds Doctoral College. 3 minute thesis presentations are available to view on the conference’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Ldspgrconference/videos The all-day conference celebrated the significant contribution that Leeds...
Reframing Disaster is a major project based in Leeds that seeks to consider, commemorate, and support recovery for global disasters. It includes an exhibition, conference, film screenings, public discussions and schools workshops.
The conference brought together those interested in the history of birth, fertility, sexuality, demography and family life, from the medieval period to the present day, and in cultures across the world. The conference aimed to situate birth in the contexts of family and society, evaluate the attitudes of individuals, groups and governments to birth, explore the impact...
This conference, chaired by Animesh Jha (University of Leeds) and Stephen Sweeney (University of Surrey), hosted a special Young Scientist Forum (YSF) session as well as an international programme promoting new discoveries in emerging physics, optoelectronics, materials and devices.