Talks and workshops are participatory and will accommodate between 25-60 students at a time.
‘What next?’ The big decision (and why it’s not so big)
Garden 10am
Navigating the big choices surrounding higher education and life after school/college.
Learn to pronounce Old English
Wolfson Room 10am and 12pm
Dr Christine Rauer (University of St Andrews)
A participatory lesson in Old English using the famous poem Beowulf, alongside more unusual material such as early medieval and medical texts.
Ask me anything!
Garden 10.30am and 12pm
A panel of British Academy staff will be available to take questions and offer advice about their work, the world of research, higher education, and decisions about onward education.
How to win an argument
Mall Room 10.30am
Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson (Durham University)
Have you ever wondered how to ‘win’ an argument? Do you need to improve your powers of persuasion? Come and learn how the Greeks and Romans devised a step-by-step system for clear self-expression and rebuttal of opposite views. This interactive workshop will outline the rhetorical method (as described by Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian) and will make some practical suggestions about how it can be applied, with great effect, to communication in the 21st century.
Extremist material online: how to spot it and what to do about it?
Wolfson Room 10.30am and 11.30am
Dr Elisa Orofino and Dr Will Alchorn (Anglia Ruskin University), Faheem Khan (Future Leaders), Neil Lemon (London Borough of Redbridge), Sophie Lawrence (Borough of Hertfordshire)
This interactive panel will host representatives of local authorities, civil society organisations, teachers and students to discuss bystander interventions and additional resources designed for young people to support their peers in spotting and (dis)engaging from extreme ideas.
Could YOU be a Magistrate?
Wolfson Room 11am and 12.30pm
Dr Xavier L’Hoiry (University of Sheffield)
Take part in a mock trial led by serving magistrates, aiming to raise public awareness of the Magistracy and to demonstrate the need for the retention of younger people in the sector.
Your examiner is a robot. Is that a problem?
Council Room 10.30am
Professor Albert Sanchez-Graells (University of Bristol)
Exploring the adoption of AI by the public sector with the aim of promoting digital governance awareness in young students.
Please note that this talk has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Naked Politics: how to be politically engaged
Council Room 11am
Banseka Kayembe (Naked Politics Founder-Director)
Learn examples of different types of citizen-led democratic action in UK history and the four roles of activism (citizen, change agent, rebel, reformer), before a scenario-based group activity to produce an action plan on a made-up topical local issue
Stereotype soup
Mall Room 11.30am
Dr Bonny Hartley (University of Greenwich)
An exploration of the barriers posed by normative beliefs and stereotypes surrounding academic effort, achievement and ability.
Naked Politics: the power of journalism
Council Room 12pm
Banseka Kayembe (Naked Politics Founder-Director)
Learn about different types of journalism and why they’re important before a scenario-based group activity to produce an outline of an article or video report on a made-up topical issue.
Who's there?
Mall Room 12pm
Dr Laura Seymour (St Anne’s College, Oxford)
How lived experiences of neurodivergence can help us to read texts in new ways.
Arts and Health: Creative Writing Workshop
Council Room 12.30pm
Dr Kim Wiltshire and Dr Zayneb Allak (Edge Hill University)
An interactive discussion on how we can use the arts for wellbeing. This workshop will include elements such as freewriting, crafting our words and using well known forms such as Haikus to explore how we feel.