Events

Dr Anna Joy Drury Did you know Earth’s climate varies with a semi-periodic beat that is controlled by Earth’s location in our solar system? Using oceanic sediments recovered from deep below the sea floor, we will explore how astronomical processes influence Earth’s climate beat and why it sometimes changes – seemingly unpredictably.   Anna is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow with the Geography, Geology and Environment Unit at Leicester University. Her research interests span palaeoceanography, geochemistry and stratigraphy, with a strong focus on understanding climate evolution and dynamics. She has helped develop the Code for Ocean Drilling Data (CODD) to facilitate analysis of ocean drilling data and the creation of composite core images. ...

Mariam Shalvashvili   The talk explores how Muslim Communities have been ‘securitised‘ following the War on Terror policies.   Mariam Shalvashvili studied sociology and social anthropology at Central European University and social sciences at Free University of Tbilisi.  In 2022 she was a research fellow of the Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES) program at the University of Zurich. She has worked as a researcher for Social Justice Center in Tbilisi from 2019 to 2022 and continues to collaborate with the organization.    All welcome - admission free. Tea & biscuits. Donations welcome - £5 suggested to cover  cost...