Gender Diversity and Sport: Interdisciplinary perspectives on increasing inclusivity

16 May 2022, 12pm – 5pm, International House

Join members of the Loughborough University Gender and Sport mini-CDT for the launch of their new book showcasing their work and that of other national and international scholars. With commentary from the Editors, contributors, scholarly reviewers, and trans inclusion advocates this event will discuss the complexities of barriers to inclusive access to sport and physical activity and discusses how sport, and society, can move forward beyond the gender binary, in both theory and practice.

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Transitional Experiences: Understanding Embodied Stigma, Stress and Trans Resilience in the U.S.

17 May 2022, 10am – 12pm, International House

Although trans, gender diverse and gender non-binary people are increasingly visible in popular culture in the US, political backlash and entrenchment in a strict gender binary continue to contribute to enacted stigma and violence. This talk examines trans experience through a biocultural anthropological lens focusing on how stress and stigma become embodied and explores ways to understand trans lives, transitional experiences and ‘biologies of resilience.’ Discussion moderated by Ines Varela-Silva

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Plant Pot Painting

17 May 2022, 2pm – 4pm, The Treehouse

An opportunity to get creative painting some cute plant pots.

Festival: In your hands: 10 years of Fruit Routes – Storying/Walking, Parts I and II

17 May 2022, 2pm – 5pm, Barefoot Orchard

2pm Part I: Branching Out Storywalk: Traditional Stories of Our Treescapes

Guided Storywalk, led by Mike Wilson (LU) and Patrick Ryan

Branching Out, part of the NERC-funded UK Future Treescapes Programme, aims to capture the social and cultural values attached to our urban treescapes, by mapping the biophysical data of trees alongside the stories that we tell about them. Join professional storyteller Patrick Ryan as he brings the Fruit Routes collection to life.

3.30pm-5pm Part II: Stories of the Heart Wood

Led by Fred Dalmasso and Liz Lovely from the Storytelling Academy, Loughborough University

Join us as we gather and share stories of the trees, both personal and universal while listening to the wisdom of the orchards. Bring your good cheer and the tales that live about you.

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Transitions and Trans Lives

18 May 2022, 9.30am – 12pm, LDS017, Design School

A unique opportunity to join scholars, filmmakers and activists for a screening and discussion panel centred on the filmic representation of trans lives.

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IDIG Speaker Series: Professor Stephen Brown

18 May 2022, 11am, Online

Visibility or impact? International efforts to defend LGBTQI+ rights in the Sub-Saharan Africa

The Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance has organised a Speaker Series to bring together a mix of academics and practitioners to discuss issues relating to diplomacy, foreign policy and international governance.

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IDIG Speaker Series: Professor Stephen Brown

18 May 2022, 11am, Online

Visibility or impact? International efforts to defend LGBTQI+ rights in the Sub-Saharan Africa

The Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance has organised a Speaker Series to bring together a mix of academics and practitioners to discuss issues relating to diplomacy, foreign policy and international governance.

Find out more on the events page.

Beeswax Wrap Workshop

18 May 2022, 2pm – 4pm, MHL007, Martin Hall

Make your very own beeswax wrap to keep food fresh for days!

In this workshop you’ll be able to make your very own beeswax wrap which you can use repeatedly to keep that half-eaten fruit, or leftover takeaway fresh for days. This helps avoid both food waste and the use of landfill-bound, plastic-based cling film.

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Professor Heike Jöns Inaugural Lecture

18 May 2022, 4.30pm – 6pm, EHB.1.10B & Online

Understanding the uneven global geographies of science and scholarship through triadic thought: an intellectual journey from mobilities via practices to geopolitics.

Science and scholarship are significant but contested fields of human praxis. Through the production of diverse cultural, scientific, and technological knowledge and innovation, science and scholarship have driven economic prosperity, cultural exchange, and considerable improvement in human health and wellbeing, yet they have also been identified as practices inextricably linked to warfare and powerful economic accumulation processes that have relied upon imperial dominance and exploitation in the development of an originally profoundly Eurocentric modern capitalist world economy. Understanding how science and scholarship have contributed to politically and culturally diverse yet geographically and socioeconomically highly uneven global knowledge economies has motivated much of my research over the past 25 years.

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EDI Film Night – Paris is Burning

18 May 2022, 5pm – 7pm, LDN 1.04

The Loughborough London EDI Committee invites all staff and students to join us for an EDI Film Night to watch ‘Paris is Burning’.

This award-winning documentary chronicles New York’s drag scene in the 1980s and explores issues of race, class, gender and sexuality.

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In your hands: 10 years of Fruit Routes

19 May 2022, 10am – 5pm, International House

An opportunity to participate in a number of events to celebrate the launch of the Fruit Routes Charter and 10 years of Fruit Routes.

After welcome refreshments and an introduction from Professor Marsha Meskimmon, Director of IAS, there will be various presentations.

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CASHxMental Health Ambassadors: Calm Colouring

19 May 2022, 12pm – 4pm, The Lounge

 A chance to unwind and do some creative colouring.

University Choir: Outdoor lunchtime performance

19 May 2022, 12.30pm – 1.15pm, Outside Martin Hall

Join our University Choir for some outdoor singing and jubilee joy!

Following some freezing fun in December, our University Choir is delighted to present another lunchtime al fresco performance outside Martin Hall (Shirley Pearce Square).

As they will be outside, they’ll be singing songs about flowers, so please join them to feel the sunshine (hopefully), smell the roses and ‘hear’ the lilacs in spring.

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Digital Marketing Talk with Tom Hostler

19 May 2022, 5pm – 7pm, LDN 1.04

Are you looking for a career in Digital Marketing? Join us for a chat with one of POKE’s (a Publicis Groupe company) co-founders Tom Hostler. For nearly 30 years Tom has worked across digital design and media creating trail-blazing campaigns for some of Britain’s biggest brands.

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Spell-ing the Green Knowledge

19 May 2022, 6pm – 7pm, Barefoot Orchard

To mark and celebrate a decade of Fruit Routes and the passing on of the project, Topologies-of-Between, will be bringing together sound, image, mark-making, objects and voice in an improvised performance. All are welcome.

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Henna-inspired Wooden Disc Workshop

19 May 2022, 6.15pm, The Treehouse

Design and embellish your own bespoke wooden discs with henna-inspired designs!

This one and a half hour workshop includes a chance to look through pattern inspiration and practice the acrylic cone technique. You’ll then design and embellish your own wooden disc to take home using this technique as well as an array of rhinestones.

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Moth Trapping Walk

19 May 2022, 9pm – 10pm, Barefoot Orchard

Find out more about these wonderful night-time creatures with Graham and Nona Finch from Leicestershire Entomological Society. Graham and Nona have been monitoring moths at Loughborough University for a number of years.

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Resistant Transition? Debating the Future of Legal Gender

20 May 2022, 2pm – 4pm, International House & Online

Join Professor Elizabeth Peel (Loughborough), Professor Davina Cooper (King’s College London) and Dr Flora Renz (University of Kent) in-person to discuss the ESRC Future of Legal Gender project findings, and explore the challenges and consequences if legal sex were abolished.

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DRN Ecologies of Drawing: A More Than Human World

22 May 2022, 11am – 12.30pm, Online

The final event of the DRN series 2022 ‘Drawing Ecologies’ presents the work of three artists including two PhD researchers from Loughborough University – Lucia Cunningham and Anka Makrzanowska – along with Australian artist and academic Jan Hogan. Each of the artists will discuss the possibilities for exploring a more-than-human trace through a practice of drawing.

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LSU Events

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion – Student Session

16 May 2022, 12pm, Council Chamber

LSU’s Welfare and Diversity officer, Alex Marlowe will be running a session about how you can consider your volunteer role and make sure that you are creating a welcoming and inclusive space.

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Karaoke Night

16 May 2022, 7.30pm, The Lounge

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Hey Ewe

18 May 2022, 10.30pm, LSU

Whether you’re celebrating a win or reeling from a loss, Hey Ewe is the place to go after a game!

Later entry means there’s plenty of time to shower and get yourself ready for a night of chart hits, pop anthems and student singalongs. We have DJs in The Basement and The Treehouse serving up bangers and cheese until 4am!

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Jam @ Jam Garden

19 May 2022, 7.30pm, Off-Campus

Tuxedo Swing brings their signature sound to The Jam Garden, a glorious hangout with the tastiest of beers and most delicious of cocktails. The event is ticketed, get yours as soon as possible!

This is Tuxedo Swing’s last pub outing before the end of term, so if you haven’t had the chance to see them yet, this is your opportunity! It’s going to be a fantastic night!

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FND

20 May 2022, 10.30pm, LSU

Welcome to the biggest Friday night in Loughborough! Our resident DJs will be dropping the best of disco, house, drum and bass, hip hop and R&B in The Basement throughout the night, while The Treehouse is taken over by cheese anthems and retro-pop singalongs until 4am!

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Societies Awards 2022

21 May 2022, 6.30pm, The Basement

La Familia Societies is coming together to celebrate on the 21st May!

Come join us for a celebration of the achievements of our students this year.

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LSU Rag Colour Dash

22 May 2022, 1pm, Union Lawn

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Funky Bunch Trivia Quiz

22 May 2022, 8pm, The Lounge

Join us every Sunday from 8pm for a night of tricky trivia in The Lounge. Vote on the theme over on our Instagram every Thursday, and see if your specialist subject shows up – then put together the perfect team and maybe you’ll be taking home the cash prize!

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Careers Network Events

Aston Martin F1 Car outside STEMLab

16 May, 10am – 4pm, Outside STEMLab

After more than 60 years away from Formula One, Aston Martin is back on the grid. Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One™ Team racing car will be on display throughout the day. They have Graduate, Placement and Internship opportunities for a range of STEM disciplines. Drop by and grab a selfie!

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Finalist Futures: Widen career options with further study

16 May, 12pm – 1pm, MS Teams

Learn about the range of further study options you could pursue, where to find opportunities and how to apply.  You will find out about the benefits further study can bring, including a career change, so that you can explore whether further study is for you.

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Come and ask us about postgrad courses to pursue a Career in Law

17 May, 10am – 4pm, Outside Careers Hub East, Stewart Mason

Find out about our Law Conversion courses, how they allow you to proceed on to the SQE, and how they are taught. Meet student recruitment team, current students and employability team. Suitable for all students and courses – please come along and collect some freebies at our stand.

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Finalist Futures: Ace that interview!

17 May , 1pm – 2pm, Wavy Top WAV.0.36

This session will be a fun, informal and supportive in-person session led by Career Coaches Sally Western and Deborah Till and is suitable for all final year students – whether you have had plenty of interviews in the past or none at all!

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Finalist Futures: Drive your job search

18 May, 1.30pm – 3pm, Wavy Top WAV.0.36

This workshop will equip you with the skills to identify your strengths and interests to inform your graduate job search, explore ways of researching different jobs that match your preferences, and create a plan, to help you take manageable steps towards securing a graduate role.

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