Events
The University hosts hundreds of events each year. From student performances and guest lectures to alumni reunions and open day visits for those considering study at Middlesex, we open our doors as much as possible to anyone who might enjoy or benefit. The Alumni Association hosts regular events and reunions. For details of these please register with the Alumni Association.
Current Events Listing
December
Guest Speaker Day
Tuesday 9 December 2008
Details: View the programme here [word doc]. This event is free and open to the public (Visitors will need to buy or bring their own lunch).
Time: 9.30am - 5.30pm
Venue: Trent Park Campus, Middlesex University, Bramley Road, London N14 4YZ
Contact: Dr Claire Shih, email: c.shih@mdx.ac.uk or professor Kirsten Malmkjær, email: k.malmkjaer@mdx.ac.uk
Writer for Lunch Series
Wednesday 10 December 2008
Venue: Room number M009 in The Mansion House, Trent Park Campus
Time: 1pm
Details: Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican-born writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her science fiction and fantasy novels often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling. Hopkinson is the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award for Emerging Writers. Brown Girl in the Ring was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1998, and received the Locus Award for Best New Writer. Skin Folk received the World Fantasy Award and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in 2003. The Salt Roads received the Gaylactic Spectrum Award for positive exploration of queer issues in speculative fiction for 2004, presented at the 2005 Gaylaxicon. In 2008, The New Moon's Arms received the Aurora Award (Canada's reader-voted award for science fiction and fantasy) and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, making her the first author to receive the Sunburst Award twice.
Lansdown Lecture: Anthony Rowe, squidsoup
Wednesday 10 December 2008
Venue: Room 137, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet EN4 8HT
Time: 4.45pm
Details: Anthony Rowe is an artist, researcher and founder member of experimental digital arts group Squidsoup.
Squidsoup combine sound, physical space and virtual worlds to produce immersive and emotive headspaces. They explore the modes and effects of interactivity, looking to make digital experiences where meaningful and creative interaction can occur. Above all, they aim to allow participants to take active control of these experiences.
Their work has been shown at several dozen festivals, seminars and galleries around the world including Late at Tate Britain, several Future of Sound events, Futuresonic, ISEA, Sonar, SIGGRAPH and, most recently, Late at the V&A.
Anthony will be showing and discussing several Squidsoup projects, and framing them into a narrative that leads to his current research into interaction and visualization techniques in three physical dimensions.
Squidsoup’s work is documented online at www.squidsoup.org
Contact: Stephen Boyd Davis, email: s.boyd-davis@mdx.ac.uk
HRM Seminar Series
Thursday 11 December 2008
Venue: Room C122, College Building, Hendon Campus
Time: 5.00pm - 7.00pm
Details: Dr Caroline Smith “International trade unionism – panacea, red herring or horses for courses? Lessons from Australia”
Contact: To register your attendance please contact Audrey Johnson email: a.johnson@mdx.ac.uk
Joint GENOS/CEEDR Seminar on Female Entrepreneurship
Wednesday 17 December 2008
Venue: Room C211, College Building, Hendon Campus
Time: 4.00pm - 6.00pm
Details: Dr Haya Al-Dajani, Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia
“Do female entrepreneurs empower home-based producers? A perspective from Jordan” AND Dr Caroline Essers, Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University of Nijmegen, “Female entrepreneurs of Moroccan and Turkish origin in the Netherlands: negotiating entrepreneurship at the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and Islam”.
Contact: To register your attendance please contact Audrey Johnson, email: a.johnson@mdx.ac.uk
January
Ski Trip to the Alpe d'huez resort
Friday 2 - Saturday 10 January 2009
Details: Friends and family of Middlesex Students and Staff welcome - NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE NECESSARY
Travel by Coach £359 or book Own Transport £289.
Contact: For further info or if you have any questions please contatc Toni Hannan, tel: 020 8411 4734
Work Based Learning
Wednesday 14 January 2009
Venue: Hendon IWBL
Time: 5.30pm - 9pm
Details: Knowledge Sharing Event: Going Live with a Podcast in 3 hours
More details: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/wbl/wblnetwork.asp
Cost: First 20 places no charge
Lansdown Symposium: Completing the Circle
Monday 19 January 2009
Venue: British Computer Society, First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA
Time: 9:30 am
Details: A one-day Symposium entitled "Completing the Circle" its theme is the role of evaluation in the creative process. Sponsored by the Computer Arts Society, the event will be held at the headquarters of the British Computer Society in central London.
Lansdown Symposium 09 webpage
Contact: Stephen Boyd Davis, email: s.boyd-davis@mdx.ac.uk
Professional Development Directorate at MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY - School of Arts and Education - 'We don't need no Education!'
Saturday 24 January 2009
Venue: Trent Park Campus
Time: 10.00am - 4.00pm
Details: A one day conference for Teachers, Students and Education Professionals and Academics to debate ideas around this important theme.
'From Early Years through to University the goals and definitions of what it means to be Educated have been redefined. At the heart of govenment policy is the relationship betwen the economic imperative and the kinds of curriculum and courses that have saturated the educational landscape.
When the former Department for Education was divided into the Department For Children, Schools and Families ( DCSF) and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) the word 'education' ws omitted and this signals a new direction in government thinking'.
Speakers Include
- Mick Waters, Director of Curriculum, QCA
- Dr Gary Gary, Principal Lecturer, De Montfort University
- Professor Sally Power, Cardiff University
- Claire Fox, Director, Insitute of Ideas and panel member of BBC Radio 4 'Moral Maze'
- Dr. Dennis Hayes, Head of Centre for Professional Education, Canterbury Christ Church University
'We don't need no Education!' flyer [Pdf 67KB]
Admission: Conference fee (to include coffee and lunch): Full rate £ 60 / Concession rate for Part time Students £40 / Concession rate for Full Time Students £20 / Middlesex Staff rate £10.
For PGCE Students who do not require lunch the fee will be waived but this will be LIMITED in numbers.
Contact: To reserve your place please email Kevin Morris at k.morris@mdx.ac.uk (limited places book early to avoid disappointment).
Joint CSR/CEEDR Seminar
Wednesday 28 January 2009
Venue: Room TBC
Time: 4.00pm - 6.00pm
Details: Professor Adrian Henriques, Visiting Professor of Accountability and Corporate Social Responsibility at Middlesex University Business School:
"Measuring social impact & understanding Social Return on Investment - the case of Yorkshire Housing Trust"
Contact: To register your attendance please contact Audrey Johnson, email: a.johnson@mdx.ac.uk
February
Work Based Learning Online
Wednesday 4 February 2009
Venue: On-line, instructions at http://www.mdx.ac.uk/wbl/wblwednesdays/wblwed.asp
Time: 10.00am - 11.00am GMT
Details: Join us on-line to learn more about WBL and how it can benefit you.
Admission: Free
Work Based Learning Open Evening
Wednesday 4 February 2009
Venue: Hendon IWBL
Time: 5.30pm - 7pm, formal WBL Presentation at 6pm
Details: Join us to learn more about WBL and how it can benefit you.
Admission: Free
Work Based Learning Online
Wednesday 11 February 2009
Venue: On-line, instructions at http://www.mdx.ac.uk/wbl/wblwednesdays/wblwed.asp
Time: 10.00am - 11.00am GMT
Details: Join us on-line to learn more about WBL and how it can benefit you.
Admission: Free
Work Based Learning & DProf Network Meeting & Socialising
Wednesday 11 February 2009
Venue: The Sports Café, 80 Haymarket, London
Time: 5pm onwards
Details: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/wbl/wblnetwork.asp
Admission: Free but please reserve a place, email: wbl@mdx.ac.uk
CEEDR Seminar Series
Wednesday 25 February 2009
Venue: Room TBC
Time: 4.00pm - 6.00pm
Details: Keith Herrmann, Deputy CEO, The Council for Industry and Higher Education
“Building an Enterprising Britain: the role of higher education”
Contact: To register your attendance please contact Audrey Johnson, email: a.johnson@mdx.ac.uk
March
Work Based Learning Online
Wednesday 4 March 2009
Venue: On-line, instructions at http://www.mdx.ac.uk/wbl/wblwednesdays/wblwed.asp
When: 10.00am - 11.00am GMT
Details: Join us on-line to learn more about WBL and how it can benefit you.
Admission: Free
Work Based Learning Open Evening
Wednesday 4 March 2009
Venue: Hendon IWBL
Time: 5.30pm - 7pm, formal WBL Presentation at 6pm
Details: Join us to learn more about WBL and how it can benefit you.
Admission: Free
Work Based Learning Online
Wednesday 11 March 2009
Venue: On-line, instructions at http://www.mdx.ac.uk/wbl/wblwednesdays/wblwed.asp
Time: 10.00am - 11.00am GMT
Details: Join us on-line to learn more about WBL and how it can benefit you.
Admission: Free
Joint GENOS/CEEDR Seminar
Wednesday 25 March 2009
Venue: Room TBC
Time: 4.00pm - 6.00pm
Details: Mary Spaeth, Business School, University of the West of Scotland, "Enabling enterprise and employability among workers in the creative industries: what's identity got to do with it?"
Contact: To register your attendance please contact Audrey Johnson, email: a.johnson@mdx.ac.uk
April
Work Based Learning Online
Wednesday 1 April 2009
Venue: On-line, instructions at http://www.mdx.ac.uk/wbl/wblwednesdays/wblwed.asp
Time: 10.00am - 11.00am GMT
Details: Join us on-line to learn more about WBL and how it can benefit you.
Admission: Free
Work Based Learning Online
Wednesday 8 April 2009
Venue: On-line, instructions at http://www.mdx.ac.uk/wbl/wblwednesdays/wblwed.asp
Time: 10.00am - 11.00am GMT
Details: Join us on-line to learn more about WBL and how it can benefit you.
Admission: Free
Work Based Learning Open Evening
Wednesday 22 April 2009
Venue: Hendon IWBL
Time: 5.30pm - 7pm, formal WBL Presentation at 6pm
Details: Join us to learn more about WBL and how it can benefit you.
Admission: Free