A two day symposium exploring interactions between art and clinical practices, critical thinking and neuroscience takes place on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 October, 11.30 to 18.00, at the Whitechapel Gallery, London E1 7QX.
Invisible Architectures: Lesions in the Landscape, organised by SMFA Director of Graduate Studies and Reader in Fine Art Shona Illingworth, with Jill Bennett, will focus on the idea of embodied experience across diverse individual, social, political, cultural and digital landscapes. The event brings together a range of speakers – from artists and writers to scientists, cultural theorists, historians and social psychologists – and is part of Lesions in the Landscape, a project exploring the impact of amnesia and the erasure of individual and cultural memory, and the wider implications of memory loss on identity, space and imagining the future.

Sessions will focus on case studies deploying creative methods to investigate amnesia; understanding the experience of memory loss; processes and consequences of cultural erasure; haunting in computational culture; aesthetics of control in technological mediation; latency; materiality and consciousness.

For more information go to http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/invisible-architectures-symposium/

Invisible Architectures: Lesions in the Landscape is supported by the Wellcome Trust and the Sound, Image Space Research Centre, School of Music and Fine Art, University of Kent.

Linked to the symposium is Shona Illingworth’s exhibition which runs until 27 November at The Gallery, Dilston Grove, London SE16 2UA – for opening times go to http://cgplondon.org/lesions-in-the-landscape/

As part of the University’s annual Employability Festival, the Development Office is hosting an alumni/student networking event on Wednesday 26 October from 18.00 – 20.00 in Woolf College Lecture Theatre on the Canterbury campus.

Our alumni mentors are an invaluable resource for students and recent graduates; sharing their expertise and advice and offering opportunities for them to develop skills and networks.

This event is to thank those who have already helped support our students, to welcome new and potential mentors, and so that students can find a mentor face-to-face. Attendees will share best practice and network with fellow alumni, students and friends, and learn more about our e-mentoring platform, the Kent Experiences of Work Network (KEW-NET), which recently reached over 1,100 members!

The event is free and light refreshments will be provided.

Students can brush up on their networking skills beforehand at the Networking Know-How event from 16.00 in the Peter Brown Room, Darwin College.

Find out more on the alumni events calendar or the Employability Festival programme.

The Estates Department provides a number of essential services to the University of Kent and is responsible for managing, maintaining and developing the infrastructure and building fabric of our Canterbury and Medway campuses.

Following continued feedback from our customers and in order to maintain an acceptable level of service, the Estates Department Service Level Statement (SLS) has recently been updated. The most recent version (September 2016) can be found on the Estates website.

In this SLS we explain what we do and what our customers, can expect from us and more importantly, what we do not do. The SLS is based on and constrained by existing resource within the Estates Department: the targets are set to be achievable. The sections on customer obligation have been introduced to assist us in improving all of our services across the University.

Date: Friday 4 November, 2016
Time: 14.30-19.00
Venue: Darwin Conference Suite

All are welcome to join us for this half-day conference celebrating the launch of the Centre for Ethnographic Research (CER).

The event will provide a forum for showcasing innovative forms of ethnographic practice, the diversity and scope of different ethnographic fields, and challenges and opportunities for contemporary ethnographers.

Ethnography is an inclusive term that embraces a broad set of methodological practices followed by researchers from several academic disciplines in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. The CER aims to promote innovation in ethnographic practice, encourage research synergies, and create an interdisciplinary intellectual community that contributes to the making of ethnography in the 21st century.

Through this conference, we inaugurate CER, and extend an invitation to ethnographers located at Kent, and beyond the University, to join in an academic conversation about ethnographic practice.

The event is free to attend, and everyone is welcome, but please register your attendance for catering purposes by contacting Dimitrios Theodossopoulos: D.Theodossopoulos@kent.ac.uk

The event programme and abstracts can be read here: https://www.kent.ac.uk/sac/events/ethnographic_practice.html

Canterbury Festival is running from 15th October until 5th November. Don’t miss out on these events involving research at Kent:

Dr DNA: a whistle stop tour through human reproduction
20.00 Tuesday 1 November

1 in 50 people in the UK don’t have children the ‘normal’ way. The advent of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in 1978 led to hundreds of thousands of births worldwide – but also a deeper understanding of the appearance, process and genetics of the ball of cells that eventually develops into the human body.

Two pioneers in the field of IVF lead an interactive whistle-stop tour of the early stages of human development, and discuss the media storms that have accompanied recent developments in reproductive technologies.

Book your tickets online.

YouNome Exhibition
15 October – 5 November

Your Personalised Genome in 25 Portraits!

By Artist Keith Robinson and Geneticist Professor Darren Griffin

YouNome will be exhibiting in shop windows across Canterbury City Centre. It is a unique science-art collaboration designed to engage, educate and inspire the public about genomics and its role in society because who, even among professionals, knows what genomics means and what the information actually looks like?

Referencing art history and popular culture, Keith, with genomic input from University of Kent scientists Darren Griffin and Gary Robinson, has produced 25 self portraits (photography Robert Gravenor) that represent the ‘character’ of an individual chromosome.

Locations:

Various shop windows along Palace Street, The Borough, Northgate and the Festival Office.

This is a FREE event. Download your exhibition guide.

Following a series of bike thefts in Canterbury, here’s a reminder of the precautions you should take to protect your bike:

• Make sure you always lock your bike to bicycle loops or within the card access cycle shelters. See map of cycle facilities on campus. You will need to visit Campus Security to gain access on your KentOne card to the card access cycle shelters.
• Use a good quality bike lock. We recommend the ‘OnGuard Gold Sold Secure’ bike lock which are available from Campus Security or the Transport Team for £20 (RRP £45).
• Register your bike online for free on the Immobilise website.
• Get your bike checked for free by Dr Bike to ensure your bike is in good condition and safe to ride.

Find out more on our transport webpages.

You can now purchase a poppy from Medway Building reception. 

This is a fantastic opportunity for 3-4 postgraduate students to travel to Cuba and experience the life and culture of this vibrant island. The award includes flights and a maintenance grant towards accommodation and subsistence while in Cuba between April and May 2017 (final dates to be determined).

Full details, and how to apply, are available here: https://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/search/FNADCUBAEX02.

The deadline for applications is Sunday 20 November.