OpenCampus Lifelong Learning at the University of Hull

The OpenCampus Programme is a fun, free & friendly way for you to learn at your local University. Great ideas, fab lecturers & interesting topics.

The OpenCampus Programme is an informal and friendly way for you to learn at your local University. We currently offer a termly programme of Culture Café sessions and a series of Tea-time Talks. The subjects covered are wide ranging, contemporary, historical, sometimes controversial, often challenging but always interesting and thought provoking. We like to make our sessions accessible for adults

OpenCampus Programme - LibCal - University of Hull

16/06/2021

We are please to release our new series for July-Dec 2021: The Short Story! Still delivered online for the time being, here's the line up:

Saturday 10th July, 2021
Host: Janine Hatter
The Short Story Form & Anton Chekhov’s Selected Stories
(Wordsworth Classics, with introduction and notes by Joe Andrew)

Saturday 7th August, 2021
Host: Valerie Sanders
Women, Men and the Great War: An Anthology of Short Stories
(Wordsworth Classics, edited and introduced by Trudi Tate)

Saturday 4th September, 2021
Host: Susan Harr
Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party and Other Stories (1922)

Saturday 9th October, 2021
Host: Kath Beal
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cousin Phillis and Other Stories (1864)

Saturday 6th November, 2021
Host: Matthew Fletcher
Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

Saturday 11th December, 2021
Host: David Smith
James Joyce’s Dubliners (1914)

You can book online here:

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09/05/2020

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Chalking With Dinosaurs part 2 In part 2 of 'Chalking With Dinosaurs' I try to explain the geology of North Yorkshire - and where Jurassic dinosaur footprints have been found - in a…

09/05/2020

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Chalking With Dinosaurs part 1 An introduction to my GeoWeek 2020 online palaeontology activity,

09/12/2019

EVENT CANCELLATION: Please note the talk previously scheduled for this Thursday's 'Gothic Nature' talk, ‘Towards a Book of Dark Green Tree Poems’, has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances & clashing with the general election. Apologies to anyone who had booked on or was planning to attend.

16/10/2019

First talk is this Saturday. All welcome!

OpenCampusHullUni on Twitter “Coming to a galaxy near you very soon - actually on Saturday 19 October 11-1pm. Professor from will launch the new series of with his "Wonders of the Universe" talk. Book here https://t.co/JFmipwkWvi”

OpenCampus Tea-Time Talks Gothic Nature: Landfills and Garbage

16/10/2019

Second talk in the new series of . Come and hear our fantastic PhD Candidate Layla Hendow talk about her fascinating research which is so pertinent to the current conversations about climate change, waste management and the environment. Places still available. Click here to get tickets - https://libcal.hull.ac.uk/event/3400202

OpenCampus Tea-Time Talks Gothic Nature: Landfills and Garbage https://culturenet.co.uk/events/opencampus-tea-time-talks-landfills-and-garbage-in-american-gothic-imagination