LOUGHBOROUGH MARKET LECTURES

Loughborough town market hosts a series of University lectures, taking place on and around the Market Lectures stall, coinciding with the town’s market days. Market Lectures, part of the year-long Radar project Market Town, was a commission carried out by design collective Something & Son involving Loughborough market vendors and University lecturers trading places.

Something & Son have devised a project that playfully explores the relationships between Loughborough’s market and the University. Over three days in April a number of unique events took place and the regular day-to-day activity of these two institutions, temporarily, disrupted. A symbolic structure, designed with the capacity to function as both market stall and small lecture theatre became the centrepiece of the events taking place at the University campus and town centre marketplace.

MARKET LECTURES PROGRAMME – THURSDAY 28 APRIL

9am – 10am
Towards Ash-Wednesday by Dr. Oliver Tearle
Lecturer in English

11am – 12pm
Making Mischief in Public by Antoinette Burchill 
Phd School of the Arts 

1pm – 2pm
Art, Activism and Alternative Institutions by Dr. Vlad Morariu & Jaakko Karhunen 
AHRC Cultural Engagement Fellow and Co-Researcher & Phd Research Student

3pm – 4pm
The home: an energy machine for comfortable living? by Kate Simpson & Vicki Tink 
Phd Civil and Building Engineering

MARKET LECTURES PROGRAMME – FRIDAY 29 APRIL

9 – 10am
The Role of Rapid Diagnostics In Humanity’s ‘War Against Bugs’ by Dr. Sourav Ghosh
Lecturer in Healthcare Engineering

11am – 12pm
What makes a successful career? by Professor John Arnold 
Professor of Organisational Behaviour in the School of Business and Economics

1-2pm
No Laughing Matter? The History and Science of Laughter? by Dr. Tim Miles
Lecturer in Drama

4-5pm
Dare we care? How we might make child mortality a thing of the past? by Dr. David Roberts
Senior Lecturer of Peace and Conflict Studies