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A Cenotaph for the Community: How Londoners Have Remembered the First World War
RCRM Speakers Series - Season 1 - November 26, 2020 23:00 - 39 minutesThe last episode of the RCRM Speakers Series – Season 1 will feature Katrina Pasierbek, a PhD Candidate in History at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON. Katrina has taught myth, memory, and public history courses at Laurier and King's University College at Western University. An educato...
Murder Comes to Westminster: The Killing of Pte. A. Buttery
RCRM Speakers Series - Season 1 - November 17, 2020 15:29 - 44 minutesThe RCRM Speakers Series has now reached Episode 9, with Doctoral Candidate in history, Heather Ellis. Heather completed her Honours BA at the University of Toronto in 2012 and her MA in History at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Dr. Geoffrey Hayes in 2016. Her dissertation, ...
“You, Sir Frederick, Will be Chairman: Military Research and the NRC (1937-1941)”
RCRM Speakers Series - Season 1 - October 15, 2020 22:00 - 42 minutesGrant Maltman, Curator of Banting House National Historic Site of Canada, is a graduate from The University of Western Ontario with more than 30-year experience in the cultural resource management and heritage presentation field. His journey started at the local Banting Secondary School when, as...
Stanley Barracks. The Life and Times of Toronto’s Military Garrison
RCRM Speakers Series - Season 1 - September 17, 2020 22:00 - 58 minutesFor episode 7 of The RCRM Speakers Series, we have invited Dr Aldona Sendzikas to speak about “Stanley Barracks. The Life and Times of Toronto’s Military Garrison.” Dr. Sendzikas is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Western University, where she teaches 20th century U.S. Histor...
Hard Labour: Beyond the Internet Search
RCRM Speakers Series - Season 1 - August 13, 2020 22:00 - 50 minutesBefore announcing episode 6 of The RCRM Speakers Series, the museum wishes to acknowledge all our loyal followers of this program. The past four months have brought changes and unrest, but they also opened large doors in the cyberspace. A big thank you to all those who downloaded episodes in Can...
The Aerodrome of Democracy: The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Southwestern Ontario
RCRM Speakers Series - Season 1 - July 09, 2020 22:00 - 42 minutesA graduate of University of Western Ontario with degrees in history and education, Michael Baker is the Manager of Museums and Archives for the County of Elgin. Michael is well known to the regional historians as the Collections Curator at Fanshawe Pioneer Village, and the Curator of Regional Hi...
First Canadian Army and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps in April 1945
RCRM Speakers Series - Season 1 - June 11, 2020 22:00 - 40 minutesIn this episode, The RCRM Speakers Series brings forward the aftermath of German surrender on 8 May 1945. In the weeks following this event, the First Canadian Army switched from combat mode to a very different type of operations: the disarmament of thousands of enemy troops, and the care for th...
Eagles over Husky: The Allied Air Forces and the Sicilian Campaign, 14 May to 17 August 1943
RCRM Speakers Series - Season 1 - May 07, 2020 23:00 - 48 minutesAlexander Fitzgerald Black has an MA in Military History from the University of New Brunswick and another MA in Public History from the University of Western Ontario. He presently works as a historian with the Juno Beach Centre Association and is interested in researching the Canadian military h...
Canadian Protestant Rhetoric and the War in South Africa
RCRM Speakers Series - Season 1 - April 17, 2020 14:00 - 1 hourOn February 21st 2020, The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum opened a new section in the permanent gallery featuring, amongst others, the First Contingent South Africa. This unit sailed overseas in support of the British Empire who had invaded two independent republics of Protestant Dutch origins, ...
Steve McQueen on a Motorbike: The Great Escape and Popular Culture
RCRM Speakers Series - Season 1 - April 16, 2020 14:00 - 52 minutesSteve McQueen on a Motorbike: The Great Escape and Popular Culture is Jonathan Vance’s topic. John Sturges' Great Escape, a popular war movie from 1963 is Vance’s pretext to look deeper into how film productions distort, mislead, even fake, historical fact. The movie is based on a compelling tru...
Fair Health: Health Inequities Within and Between Countries - A Global Challenge
Lunch Hour Lectures - Audio - September 03, 2010 11:27 - 37 minutesThe 20th century has seen impressive gains in health and life expectancy in many parts of the world – but these improvements are unequally distributed. In every country, poor people and those from socially disadvantaged groups get sicker and die sooner than people in more privileged social positi...
The Spirit of UCL - Video
Lunch Hour Lectures - Video - October 27, 2009 12:48 - 38 minutes ★★★ - 7 ratingsUCL Lunch Hour Lectures are open and free to the public and take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. They will resume in Autumn 2008. In the meantime, a number are available below.
Why Psychiatry has to be Social - Video
Lunch Hour Lectures - Video - October 27, 2009 12:48 - 38 minutes ★★★ - 7 ratingsProfessor Bebbington explores the idea that psychiatry has an essentially social component because the phenomenon it seeks to explain have inherently social attributes. Psychiatric symptoms relate to our internal experience of external reality, and therefore comprise elements of both the internal...
The New Biology of Ageing - Video
Lunch Hour Lectures - Video - October 27, 2009 12:47 - 35 minutes ★★★ - 7 ratingsResearch into ageing has been rejuvenated by the discovery that genetic alterations extend the lifespan of laboratory animals. These mutations keep animals healthy for longer and protect them from many of the diseases of ageing. Professor Partridge will look at how this and other discoveries have...
The Spirit of UCL - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Audio - October 27, 2009 12:46 - 38 minutesUCL Lunch Hour Lectures are open and free to the public and take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. They will resume in Autumn 2008. In the meantime, a number are available below.
Why Psychiatry has to be Social - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Audio - October 27, 2009 12:45 - 38 minutesProfessor Bebbington explores the idea that psychiatry has an essentially social component because the phenomenon it seeks to explain have inherently social attributes. Psychiatric symptoms relate to our internal experience of external reality, and therefore comprise elements of both the internal...
The New Biology of Ageing - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Audio - October 27, 2009 12:45 - 35 minutesResearch into ageing has been rejuvenated by the discovery that genetic alterations extend the lifespan of laboratory animals. These mutations keep animals healthy for longer and protect them from many of the diseases of ageing. Professor Partridge will look at how this and other discoveries have...
Why Species are Fuzzy
Lunch Hour Lectures - Video - March 23, 2009 09:48 - 38 minutes ★★★ - 7 ratingsThe ‘species concept’ – the definition of what constitutes a distinct species – has been a headache for biologists for at least 70 years. Recent genetic studies in natural populations have led to a revolution in the understanding of biodiversity and speciation. Species are demonstrably continuous...
The Future of Brazil
Lunch Hour Lectures - Audio - March 17, 2009 13:36 - 31 minutesThe old joke about Brazil is that it is the country of the future, and always will be. There are signs, however, that the Brazilian economy is finally achieving the stability necessary for it to fulfil its potential. What is particularly intriguing is that this has happened under the leadership...
The Future of Brazil
Lunch Hour Lectures - Video - March 17, 2009 13:35 - 31 minutes ★★★ - 7 ratingsThe old joke about Brazil is that it is the country of the future, and always will be. There are signs, however, that the Brazilian economy is finally achieving the stability necessary for it to fulfil its potential. What is particularly intriguing is that this has happened under the leadership...
Modelling how water vapour absorbs light
Lunch Hour Lectures - Audio - March 02, 2009 13:38 - 35 minutesUCL Lunch Hour Lectures are open and free to the public and take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. They will resume in Autumn 2008. In the meantime, a number are available below.
The Evolution of Evolution: Using synthetic systems to explain natural ones
Lunch Hour Lectures - Audio - March 02, 2009 13:35 - 45 minutesUCL Lunch Hour Lectures are open and free to the public and take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. They will resume in Autumn 2008. In the meantime, a number are available below.
Still no black in the union jack
Lunch Hour Lectures - Audio - March 02, 2009 13:34 - 28 minutesUCL Lunch Hour Lectures are open and free to the public and take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. They will resume in Autumn 2008. In the meantime, a number are available below.
Still no black in the union jack
Lunch Hour Lectures - Video - March 02, 2009 13:28 - 28 minutes ★★★ - 7 ratingsUCL Lunch Hour Lectures are open and free to the public and take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. They will resume in Autumn 2008. In the meantime, a number are available below.
Modelling how water vapour absorbs light
Lunch Hour Lectures - Video - March 02, 2009 13:26 - 35 minutes ★★★ - 7 ratingsUCL Lunch Hour Lectures are open and free to the public and take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. They will resume in Autumn 2008. In the meantime, a number are available below.
The Evolution of Evolution: Using synthetic systems to explain natural ones
Lunch Hour Lectures - Video - March 02, 2009 13:23 - 45 minutes ★★★ - 7 ratingsUCL Lunch Hour Lectures are open and free to the public and take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. They will resume in Autumn 2008. In the meantime, a number are available below.
“Yes, but how do you feel?” Wellbeing for the 21st century
Lunch Hour Lectures - Video - February 12, 2009 13:57 - 36 minutes ★★★ - 7 ratingsUCL Lunch Hour Lectures are open and free to the public and take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. They will resume in Autumn 2008. In the meantime, a number are available below.
Photodynamic Therapy: using light in a gentle approach to cancer therapy by remote control
Lunch Hour Lectures - Video - February 12, 2009 13:57 - 37 minutes ★★★ - 7 ratingsUCL Lunch Hour Lectures are open and free to the public and take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. They will resume in Autumn 2008. In the meantime, a number are available below.
The Reception of Homer in Byzantium
Lunch Hour Lectures - Video - February 12, 2009 13:56 - 32 minutes ★★★ - 7 ratingsUCL Lunch Hour Lectures are open and free to the public and take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. They will resume in Autumn 2008. In the meantime, a number are available below.
President Obama and America in the World: from inauguration to action
Lunch Hour Lectures - Video - February 12, 2009 13:56 - 38 minutes ★★★ - 7 ratingsUCL Lunch Hour Lectures are open and free to the public and take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. They will resume in Autumn 2008. In the meantime, a number are available below.
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