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Bournemouth University's (BU) School of Applied Sciences has announced a lecture series on a range of ecology and anthropology topics.
Staff and research students from all education institutions are invited to attend the School of Applied Sciences’ lecture series, which takes place over the next six months.
Academics and researchers from across the UK will speak on a range of topics, including the transition to farming in Borneo rainforests, evidence of the earliest humans in northern Europe and the extinction of an iconic ice-age species.
Dr John Stewart, Lecturer in Environmental Reconstruction and Environmental Change, is organising the lectures. He said: “They’re all topical issues from significant individuals in their field, all of which relate to lines of research conducted at BU”.
The first in the series takes place between 4pm-5pm on Tuesday 2 November. Professor Norman Maclean from the University of Southampton and panel member of European Food Safety Authority will talk about GM animals in science and agriculture.
Dr John Stewart added: “This is an issue that affects us all and we have the opportunity to hear from an expert in this critical field.”
The full list of talks are as follows:-
02 November 2010 – 4pm ‘GM animals in Science and Agriculture’. Lecture given by Professor Norman Maclean, Emeritus Professor at the University of Southampton and panel member of European Food Safety Authority.
07 December 2010 – 4pm ‘Footprints and marks: foraging-farming transitions in the rainforests of Borneo’. Lecture given by Graeme Barker, Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.
18 January 2011 – 4pm ‘Evaluating the evidence for the earliest Humans in northern Europe’. Lecture given by Jim Rose, Professor of Physical Geography at Royal Holloway.
15 February 2011 – 4pm ‘The Extinction of Ice-Age Megafauna - Recent Results’. Lecture given by Adrian Lister, Merit Researcher at the Natural History Museum.
15 March 2011 – 4pm ‘The Fish Files: Tales from a former fisheries Minister’. Lecture given by Jonathan Shaw, fisheries Minister at DEFRA during the last Labour administration.
For more details contact Rebecca Dolling
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