What's on at the University of Greenwich?

27th Jan 2012 - 24th Feb 2012

An exhibition of speculative architectural models and drawings set in the Thames Gateway, by the university’s School of Architecture, looks at the wider impact of the Games and its legacy.

This story is told with the help of Charles Dickens, Georges Perec, JG Ballard, Iain Sinclair, and Angela Carter, starting with the moment when, in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, Pip is turned upside down by the convict Abel Magwitch – a scene set on the Hoo Peninsula, the geographical centre of the Thames Gateway.

Just as the rotation of Pip represents the metaphoric moment when past and future collide in the novel, the contemporary story of London’s shift to the east is both described and imagined in the exhibition where the body and its experience is at the centre of the projects presented.

Over the last seven years Atelier 11, in the postgraduate research of the School of Architecture at the University of Greenwich, has been speculating on the fictional and factual history and future of the Thames Gateway through drawings and models which have been presented at the Royal Academy and as part of the Royal Institute of British Architects Presidents’ Medals.

For further information please visit: http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/slg

The Stephen Lawrence Gallery: Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, SE10 9LS.

Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm, Saturday 11am to 4pm, closed Sundays and public holidays.

27th Feb 2012 - 10th Mar 2012

Mark Titman has recently been commissioned to design and install a drinking fountain for The Royal Parks in conjunction with Tiffany’s. “Watering Holes” offers the drinker the opportunity to become immersed in the experience of having a drink and being at one with the elements.

Mark Titman's "Park Life" watercolour paintings continue this theme of the individual becoming immersed in space by extending the views beyond what is seen in front of the eye. The paintings look beyond the immediate physical surface and also become an extension of the surrounding life forms. The paintings form part of a series of x-ray explorations into the lively and vibrant nature of walking in the park during the transition period of late Autumn/early Spring. They are a study of vibrancy and reveal how much each species offers its own colour and individual form to the complex experience of being immersed within nature's fold.

For further information please visit www.paulmcphersongallery.com/3.html

Paul McPherson Gallery, 77 Lassell Street, Greenwich, London, SE10 9PJ.

28th Feb 2012 5:00pm-7:00pm

The Business School are hosting a seminar entitled Building the Olympic site: The employee relations dimension, the seminar will be presented by Andrew Eldred.

Andrew Eldred, the Olympic Delivery Authority's Industrial Relations manager, will talk about the unique approach to site industrial relations that saw the Olympic Park completed ahead of schedule, with no industrial relations stoppages, an excellent health and safety record and with a major contribution to the skills legacy in the local economy. He discusses this success and looks at whether it might be a model for future large construction site projects.

This seminar is free of charge.

To register please e-mail businessevents@gre.ac.uk with your full name, contact e-mail and department.

Room QA 080, Greenwich Campus, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London, SE10 9LS.

29th Feb 2012 (all day)

Curated by Dan Shipsides and Veronique Chance

Offering his collection of vintage Mountain magazines (1969 – 1992), Dan Shipsides’ project asks the viewer to explore the “sport” of climbing through an encounter with the aesthetics, philosophy, ethics and maverick social positioning of many climbers. Radical lifestyles and belief positions embodied by certain infamous early mountaineers gave flesh to the quasi-spiritual, romantic and escapist tendencies resonant in the seductive images on show.

As climbing is being proposed for the 2020 Olympics, and as much of rock and mountain sport has succumbed to prescribed and commercial modes of physique, technique, equipment and branding, Evilsport expounds a friction to the wholesome Olympic ideal.

Relationships between the physical presence of the body and its representation on screen are explored in the work of Veronique Chance. In The Great Orbital Ultra Run the artist, wired up with film and sound-recording equipment, records the demanding physicality of running the 140-mile long journey along the outer Orbital paths of Greater London for subsequent relay in the gallery.

Both works test the point where sport crosses over to performative expression and examine its representation in broadcast and printed media.

For further information please visit: http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/slg

The Stephen Lawrence Gallery: Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, SE10 9LS.

Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm, Saturday 11am to 4pm, closed Sundays and public holidays.

7th Mar 2012 5:30pm

Alessandro Benati, professor of Applied Linguistics & Second Language Studies, will be giving a lecture titled ‘Input Processing and Processing Instruction: Story So Far’.

The lecture will be followed by a reception to be held in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery.

For further information about this event please contact the School of Humanities & Social Sciences:

Tel: 020 8331 9357

Email: k.guindi@gre.ac.uk

Venue: The Edinburgh Room, Queen Anne 075, Greenwich Campus, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London, SE10 9LS.

23rd Mar 2012 7:30pm

The University of Greenwich Choir and Orchestra, will be performing a concert and will be conducted by Greg Hallam.

Gabriel Fauré: Requiem
Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man

Tickets will be available from late February. Please visit the choir website for further information: www.greenwich.ac.uk/choir

Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London,  SE10 9LW.

5th Apr 2012 - 11th May 2012

Curated by Martin Rasmussen

Art animation takes on the seductive imagery, dynamics and competitiveness of the digital games industry as well as that of the entertainment industry as a whole. It speaks to us through the same platform of interaction and creation of different worlds but also distinguishes itself through a contradictory move to both competition and entertainment. It perhaps exaggerates both in order to pick our worlds apart and therefore becomes the most apparent interface between machine and man

This exhibition both celebrates and questions the idea of “games” in relation to popular visual culture.

Please Note: the gallery is closed on Easter and May public holidays

For further information please visit: http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/slg

The Stephen Lawrence Gallery: Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, SE10 9LS.

Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm, Saturday 11am to 4pm, closed Sundays and public holidays.

21st Apr 2012 9:00am-6:00pm

This conference is aimed at primary and secondary school teachers, lecturers, university students and researchers interested in second language acquisition (SLA) and applied linguistics.

The main goals of the conference are to:

• Provide updated information on the role of grammar instruction in language learning
• Consider the relevance of SLA research on grammar instruction for language teaching

The conference will also mark the launch of Continuum Issues in Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research, a new publishing series exploring theoretical insights into Instructed Second Language Acquisition research.

The event is free of charge but people will have to register by completing a form on the microsite.

You can visit the site at the following address: http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/schools/humanities/about/events/slac

Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich SE10 9LS.

27th May 2012 7:30pm

The University of Greenwich Choir and Orchestra, will be performing a concert titled "Songs from the Shows" and will be conducted by Nicholas Jenkins, Music Director at the university.

Please visit the choir website for further information: www.greenwich.ac.uk/choir

Queen Mary Undercroft, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London, SE10 9LW.

14th Jun 2012 - 18th Jul 2012

Curated by Lizzie Hughes

In the lead up to an event where records will be broken and races won and lost in a fraction of a second, The Present is a Point Just Passed brings together art and artefacts that give a tangible presence to defined moments of time.

While some carefully reposition empirical data and look at incidents of historical significance, others use banal observations and puerile gestures to render forever noteworthy otherwise unremarkable passing moments.

The exhibition will include works by Martin John Callanan, Jan Dibbets, Lizzie Hughes and Jonty Semper alongside seismograms from the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and images from the Lick Galaxy Catalogue.

For further information please visit: http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/slg

The Stephen Lawrence Gallery: Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, SE10 9LS.

Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm, Saturday 11am to 4pm, closed Sundays and public holidays.

4th Jul 2012

The Academic Practice and Technology (APT) Conference: Employer Engagement in a Digital Age is our tenth annual e-learning and technology conference at the University of Greenwich.

This one-day international conference brings together practitioners, researchers, students and managers who have engaged employers and industry through the design, development or delivery of technology based or led higher education, work based learning, leaner employability or e-work programmes.

It is an opportunity to debate the issues surrounding employer engagement with higher education in a changing digital world.

This free event is open to all.

For more information please visit: https://showtime.gre.ac.uk/index.php/ecentre/apt2012/schedConf/overview

Greenwich Campus, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London, SE10 9LS.