Category Archives: Open meetings and events

What’s on at today’s Teach Out – Monday 2 December

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Full teach out programme is here Disabled people and employment (for day of action on disability equality in education) Jo Ingold with Liz Oliver 1pm – 2pm, Quaker Meeting House The Mathematics of Voting Rob Sturman 1pm – 2pm, Quaker Meeting House (upstairs room) Healthcare and the Pharmaceutical Industry: What Is To Be Done? Dan Howdon 2pm – 3pm, Quaker Meeting House (upstairs room) Student mental health and the role of academics – an open conversation Rachel Muers 2pm – 3pm, Quaker Meeting House Opportunity for conversation between academics and students about academics’ role in relation to student mental health problems. This is a discussion & sharing of ideas facilitated by a non-specialist.   Building a coalition for climate action @Leeds Gabriella Alberti 2pm – 3pm, Fenton pub How do we do action short of a strike? UCU Researchers @Leeds Drasko Kascelan 3pm – 4pm, Fenton pub Training Sawbones: A (slightly) ghastly history of teaching doctors in Leeds Guided walk around Leeds. Meet in the Grand Arcade’s exit to Vicar Lane, LS1 6PG. We’ll finish near the LGI. Polina Merkulova 1pm – 3pm. How did people become doctors in Leeds? Why were some students expelled?Who were the teachers? Who and how … continue reading

What’s on at today’s Teach Out? Thursday 28 November

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Full teach out programme is here Migrant Detention These Walls Must Fall (North West) A talk by migrant support grassroot group. We hope to organise this in collaboration with student societies, for example Leeds STAR, and use it to help kick-start activism against immigration detention by students and staff Lauren Cape-Davenhill 1pm – 2pm, Quaker Meeting House Decolonising the University: A Jewish perspective Joshua Alston 1pm – 2pm, Quaker Meeting House Short workshop aimed at how we can decolonise the university and what Jewishness can bring to the discussion. No knowledge of Judaism or academic decolonisation required. The medieval mediterranean, race, and religion Jonathan Jarret, Francesca Petrizzo, Eva Frojmovic 2pm – 3pm, Quaker Meeting House Migration control and crises in the neoliberal economy Richard Cleminson, Deirdre Conlon, Glenda Garelli, Louise Waite 2pm – 3pm, Quaker Meeting House Short conference style presentations: ‘migration, crises, and European borders’, ‘UK/US immigration detention economies’, ‘the case of modern slavery in the neoliberal economy: migrant ‘illegality’ and exploitative work’; “Black Lisbon”: Anarchism, Anti-colonialism and the Portuguese-speaking world (1920-1940); followed by open discussion.   Introduction to Permaculture A design science for sustainable livelihoods. a.k.a. Revolution disguised as organic gardening. Alexander (Sandy) James 3pm – 4pm. Max 12 … continue reading

Branch Hardship Fund Benefit Gig

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Come to this brilliant gig and help raise money for our local Hardship Fund! Everyone welcome – UCU members, families and friends, members of other unions, and anyone who would like to support our strikes. Friday 29th November 29, from 7 PM The Chemic Tavern, 9 Johnston St, Leeds LS6 2NG (see attached map) Pay What You Can – donations to Leeds UCU Hardship Fund on the door.  Tell everyone you know, bring your friends, join us for a truly excellent party! With music from: Brigadistas Music Collective – A multi-instrumental, multilingual world folk extravaganza wormboys – Fuzzy noise pop: 50% queer, 50% casualised, 100% cute (and more being arranged) It will kick off with a Leeds UCU members’ open mic night – show off your new strike song lyrics, perform poetry, or whatever you like! All money raised will be used to boost the Leeds UCU strike hardship fund, prioritising members in precarious contractual circumstances and any member in difficult financial circumstanceshttp://www.leedsucu.org.uk/ucu-strike-fighting-fund-local-hardship-fund/ continue reading

What’s on at today’s Teach Out? Wednesday 27 November

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Full teach out programme is here The scientific basis for the climate emergency, and the social, economic and political insights which might enable a low carbon transformation Julia Steinberger and others 1pm – 2pm, Quaker Meeting House, meeting room Series of 10-minute talks by scientists on the physical and socio-economic sides of climate. Glaciers: the inside story Adam Booth 1pm – 2pm, Quaker Meeting House, garden room How do glaciologists monitor glacier evolution? A virtual fieldtrip to the Arctic! A red-green vision of city sustainability Caroline Mullen 2pm – 3pm, Quaker Meeting House, meeting room Re-imagining food production in a sustainable world Megan Povey 2pm – 3pm, Quaker Meeting House, garden room (Un)Conscious Construction: an unguided journey through remaking Leeds Asa Roast & Morgan Campbell 1pm – 2.30pm Meet at Quaker Rooms. This is a form of walking tour – There will be a short introduction, then participants will be given a sheet of questions and asked to reassemble at a place in the city centre in an hour’s time. There participants will discuss what they encountered on their journey, and their answers to the questions posed. Note that, as such, the travel from the start to the destination will … continue reading

What’s on at today’s Teach Out? Tuesday 26 November

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Teach outs are open to all. Here is the full teach out schedule for each day Singing for justice – using an inclusive community choir voiceworks approach Catherine Bates 1pm – 2pm, Quaker Meeting House, meeting room Muslims in the Medieval Imaginary Eva Frojmovic 1pm – 3pm, Leeds Central Library, Local and Family History Library Poetry and the Sixth Extinction Dominic O’Key 2pm – 3pm, Quaker Meeting House, garden room How does poetry make sense of the Sixth Extinction? This session will prioritise collaborative discussions about selected poems that work through anthropogenic extinctions. Following the devastating Grenfell Tower and Bolton Cube fires, is student housing safe and what can we do to ensure it is? Stuart Hodkinson 2pm – 3pm, Quaker Meeting House, meeting room Building a network of UCU members in management roles Sara Gonzalez 1pm – 2pm, Quaker Meeting House, garden room This is a chance to meet up with other UCU members in management roles. The aim would be to create an informal network of union colleagues that you can count on to discuss decisions at management level. Not just during strike but throughout the year. continue reading