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Open House 2018
Join us this May for Open House 2018 – a five-day festival of talks, performances, exhibitions and interactive experiences showcasing great ideas, knowledge and culture. The diverse list of speakers and contributors includes American chef and author Ken Hom OBE, the Mayor of Liverpool City Region Steve Rotheram, and prolific Shakespearean actor Michael Pennington. Together with some of the University’s leading researchers and other guest contributors, they’ll be delivering an illuminating and entertaining programme that offers something for everyone.
![Robots](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5ac636959ce08.jpg)
Machines, Robots and Zombie Jobs
6:00pm - 8:00pm / Monday 14th May 2018
![Arms](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5acc8ad000204.jpg)
Pint of Science - Battle Station Body: Arm Yourself ...
7:30pm - 9:30pm / Monday 14th May 2018
![Meeting of minds](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5acc87bec078a.jpg)
Pint of Science - A Meeting of Minds
7:30pm - 9:30pm / Monday 14th May 2018
![Invisible Science](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5acc89dcb318a.jpg)
Pint of Science - Invisible Science
7:30pm - 9:30pm / Monday 14th May 2018
![Black Hole](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5ac6374868c59.jpg)
Stephen Hawking, black holes and how scientists study the universe in a lab
6:00pm - 8:00pm / Tuesday 15th May 2018
![Ken Hom](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5acb8743172b1.jpg)
Ken Hom OBE: Chinese values and how they are relevant in the world today
6:30pm - 9:00pm / Tuesday 15th May 2018
![Food](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5accadc3668e6.jpg)
Pint of Science - Food for Thought!
7:30pm - 9:30pm / Tuesday 15th May 2018
![Future Perfect](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5acc9937e84a8.jpg)
Pint of Science - Future Perfect: Adapt. Survive. Drink.
7:30pm - 9:30pm / Tuesday 15th May 2018
![Mind map](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5acc959a62510.jpg)
Pint of Science - An Evening of Empathy (and Dog Bites & Psychopaths!)
7:30pm - 9:30pm / Tuesday 15th May 2018
![Gender panel](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5acb883e87df3.jpg)
Ensuring Diversity in a Digital World - is artificial intelligence controlling our lives through bias and prejudice?
6:00pm - 8:00pm / Wednesday 16th May 2018
![Sex & Ice cream](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5accb01349b78.jpg)
Pint of Science - Sex, Faeces and Ice Cream!
7:30pm - 9:30pm / Wednesday 16th May 2018
![Trump](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5accae8624437.jpg)
Pint of Science - Trump, Driving, & HIV: How Science Affects our Society
7:30pm - 9:30pm / Wednesday 16th May 2018
![Beer](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5accaf37b26fb.jpg)
Pint of Science - Beer and a ‘Light’ G&T – Energy, Matter and the Future
7:30pm - 9:30pm / Wednesday 16th May 2018
![Nano medicine](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5acb80b54687f.jpg)
Nanomedicine at Liverpool – Impacting World Global Health. **VENUE CHANGE**
6:00pm - 8:00pm / Thursday 17th May 2018
![waterfront](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5ace2b39772b2.jpg)
Devolution and the Metro Mayor – where next?
7:30pm - 9:00pm / Thursday 17th May 2018
![Teachers](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5ad0a49c59a7b.jpg)
Teachers and Advisers Conference 2018
9:30am - 3:30pm / Friday 18th May 2018
![Light Night](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5acb743265f27.jpg)
Light Night
5:00pm - 9:00pm / Friday 18th May 2018
![Michael Pennington](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tulip-assets/events-images/5abb4ed99fd1e.jpg)