Your University Events
Find out about our extensive alumni and supporter events programme that takes place throughout the year – online, on campus, across the UK, and internationally.
Upcoming Events
Online talk: In Conversation with Jon Sopel | Inside Politics: From Washington to Westminster
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Renowned British journalist, Southampton Pro-Chancellor, alumnus, bestselling author, political insider, and presenter of the chart-topping podcast The News Agents, we are thrilled to welcome Jon Sopel back for another In Conversation event. In 2022, after eight years reporting from the heart of American politics, Jon returned to the UK to find British politics drastically transformed. During this live In Conversation event, Jon and Russell will dissect the political upheavals, societal shifts, and cultural nuances that have reshaped the political landscape on both sides of the Atlantic. With his characteristic wit and clarity, Jon will offer a personal exploration of the changes that have redefined his homeland, alongside his thoughts on 'life across the pond', including the return of President Trump to the White House. There is sure to be plenty to discuss!
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School of Humanities presents the Inaugural Lecture of Professor James Minney | “Research, Practice, Practitioners and Educators”
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The University of Southampton's Faculty of Arts and Humanities is pleased to invite you to Professor James Minney's inaugural public lecture, which will take place on Thursday 28 November at 18:00 on the University of Southampton’s Avenue Campus. This talk will explore the complex and occasionally tense relationship between research and education in the context of higher education in the UK. It will then consider how higher education can inform professional practice, drawing specifically on James’s extensive experience as both a translator and as a linguist working with professionals in the aviation industry. James will then aim to “close the loop” by illustrating how insights from professional practice can stimulate further research which, in turn, can inform teaching and learning in higher education.
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The Parkes Institute presents Emeritus Professor Gennady Estraikh, New York University | Jewish Life after Stalin
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The Parkes Institute are proud to welcome Emeritus Professor Gennady Estraikh from NYU, who discusses the book 'Jews in the Soviet Union: A History: After Stalin, 1953–1967'. It includes a review of how the period between Stalin’s death and the Six-Day War played a secondary role in Soviet Jewish studies. The years of Khrushchev’s “Thaw” seemed uneventful compared with the prior repressive campaigns (the “Doctors’ Plot,” anti-“cosmopolitanism,” and liquidation of the Yiddish cultural milieu) by the end of Stalin’s rule and the later emigration drive. In reality, the fourteen years saw many important developments in Soviet Jewish life. Thus, thousands of surviving gulag inmates could return to their families, former Polish citizens had a chance to repatriate, and the authorities sponsored some revival of Jewish culture. Meanwhile, the present and future of Soviet Jews appeared on the agenda of international politics
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The Parkes Institute presents the Annual Howard Rein Memorial Lecture | Child Health across Charedi Worlds | Dr Ben Kasstan-Dabush, University of Edinburgh
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Charedi Jewish families have been in the news for a number of disputes around healthcare, including childhood immunisation uptake and refusal to teach statutory relationships and sex education. This talk draws on fieldwork conducted in Jerusalem, New York and London to un-pick these narratives and show how relationships and ideas of religious freedom are shaped by place.
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A Deep Dive into Cancer Vaccines: Uncovering the groundbreaking science behind the deadlines | Cancer Immunology Hybrid Lecture
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Join us on Wednesday 27th January for a hybrid event, either in person or online: A Deep Dive into Cancer Vaccines: Uncovering the groundbreaking science behind the headlines. The event will focus on world-leading Cancer Immunology research at the University of Southampton. During this event, our experts will share how our world class cancer immunology research is helping to develop life-saving cancer vaccines. Learn about the incredible impact of our work in cancer vaccines through the story of one of our patients and find out how donations from alumni and supporters are driving forward this incredible, lifesaving research.
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Faculty of Medicine – Inaugural Lecture from Professor Sean Lim: “Immunotherapy: A New Hope”
Immunotherapy has transformed the way we treat patients with cancer. In this lecture to inaugurate her promotion to Professor, Sean Lim will discuss how research in immunotherapy has progressed over the decades, highlighting the key discoveries, discuss the major challenges to research progress and how we might overcome these. She will also reflect on her journey - from Malaysia to the United Kingdom, and from being a medical doctor to a scientist and mother, as well.
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Faculty of Medicine – Inaugural Lecture from Professor Jane Wilkinson: “How on earth did I get here?”
This inaugural lecture is a very personal account of what in many ways is a conventional career. In my talk I will acknowledge the people who shaped my career particularly with respect to my interest in medical education. The birth of my son changed my life profoundly. The experience of caring for and bringing up a young person with complex needs has not only had an impact on my personal life but has also shaped me as doctor both generally and specifically with regard to my specialist interest. Much of my talk will focus on undergraduate and post graduate medical training and how we can address the very significant challenges we face
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The Faculty of Medicine presents an Inaugural Lecture by Professor Kate Ward | “A walk through lifecourse: people and places”
An inevitable consequence of ageing is loss of bone and muscle strength. During childhood and adolescence, we can work to maximise our reservoir for later life. Across the world, changing environment presents challenges to older people and how they age. In this talk, Professor Ward will describe how her research has focused on understanding bone and muscle health through the lifecourse.
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LIMITED IN PERSON PLACES | The Parkes Lecture 2024 presents actor David Schneider: “Performance and Comedy as a response to Suffering”
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Comedian and actor David Schneider is coming to the university to give a guest lecture on Tuesday 19 March 2024 (The Parkes Lecture). Schneider is known for roles including in the Alan Partridge franchise (as BBC commissioning editor Tony Hayers, and as magician Tony le Mesmer), and roles in Horrid Henry: The Movie, ITV drama Whitechapel, and CITV series Uncle Max. He will be ‘in conversation’ with institute members Dr Katie Power and Dr Devorah Baum.
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IN MARCH | The Parkes Institute – Karten Lecture 2023-24 presents “Have Poles Forgotten the Holocaust? Remembering the Genocide of the Jews in Socialist and post-Socialist Poland”
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To many, it seems that the genocide of the Jews has been forgotten in Poland for most of the post-war period and that it was only in the 1990s and 2000s that a few activists started to commemorate it. This lecture aims to offer a different, more nuanced image of Holocaust memory in Poland. While recognising the challenges and the silences of the post-war era, it charts the attempts to save the Holocaust from oblivion and from political manipulation in the years after 1945. Having reassessed the process of remembering and forgetting the Holocaust under socialist rule, the lecture offers an overview of the most recent memorial projects, including museums such as the one in Schindler’s Factory in Kraków and remembrance days organised annually to mark the Ghetto Uprising anniversary.
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REGISTER NOW | Stefan Cross Lecture 2024 presents “Priority and Gender Equality” | Shreya Atrey – Associate Professor of Human Rights Law, University of Oxford
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The University of Southampton is delighted to welcome Shreya Atrey from the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, who will be delivering this year's Stefan Cross Lecture on the topic of "Priority and Gender Equality". This talk argues that an intersectional approach to gender equality in international human rights law is necessarily prioritarian, drawing attention to those most disadvantaged. It unravels the implications of this approach to gender equality in the interpretation and implementation of state obligations in international human rights law.
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The Parkes Institute presents: Dress, Migration and Belonging between Diaspora and “Eretz Israel”, 1880s-1948
Svenja Bethke is Associate Professor of Modern European History and Director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Dance of the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos (UTP 2021). For her current book project ‘Between Diaspora and Eretz Israel: Dress in the Time of Nation-Building’, she was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship by The European Commission, hosted at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 2019-2021 and an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship (2023-2025).
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WATCH NOW | Annual WADE Lecture 2023 presents Sir Peng Tee Khaw
This year we will be welcoming Sir Peng Tee Khaw, a consultant and ophthalmic surgeon specialising in adult and paediatric glaucoma.
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Future Worlds: Engage events programme 2023
- Click on link to view workshops and events hosted by Future Worlds - UoS On Campus Start Up Accelerator Programme
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Parkes Lecture | Howard Jacobson in conversation with Bryan Cheyette
The Parkes Lecture 2023 will be a conversation between the Booker-Prize winning novelist, broadcaster and public intellectual, Howard Jacobson and Bryan Cheyette who has been writing on Jacobson since 1984.
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Southampton Stonewall Lecture: “LGBTQ in a Time of War: The Queer History of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict”, with Professor Dan Healey
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Register now for the annual Southampton Stonewall Lecture, "LGBTQ in a Time of War: The Queer History of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict", with Professor Dan Healey
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