The Athenaeum Liverpool

Its A Small World - Talk & Dinner
2025-03-13 18:30 - 23:00 (Europe/London) | The Athenaeum Liverpool, Church Alley, Liverpool, L1 3DD, United Kingdom
It’s A Small World
Talk & Dinner with Professor Rasmita Raval
Thursday 13th March 2025, 6:30pm for 7:00pm
£45.00 per ticket, inclusive of reception drink and three-course dinner.
Humans perceive and explain the world by what we can see. The beauty and the vastness of the Universe has been captured for centuries by astronomical telescopes. However, there are worlds so small that they remained unseen and undiscovered until recently. Now, remarkable technology has allowed us to explore these mysterious worlds at a scale we could not have previously imagined.
This talk will take us on an illustrated journey into this small world. We will see the smallest patterns in nature, which have counterparts in Islamic and Western artwork. Equally fascinating is the discovery that these small worlds can exist in mirror forms and this small difference lies at the centre of an unsolved mystery on how life evolved on earth. We will also discover how humble bacteria come together to create communities that have a Jeckyll and Hyde existence, delivering good health via the gut microbiome, or causing chronic infections that are testing the last line of antibiotic defences
Professor Rasmita Raval is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Liverpool. She is also Director of the Surface Science Centre and Co-Director of The National Biofilm Centre. Rasmita is a regular visitor to the Athenaeum and will be known to many. She is passionate about science and communicating that science to the general public.
Reserve your place now via the Members’ Area or with the Concierge.

Discover Your Share
2025-03-15 14:30 - 17:00
Are you interested in researching the history of your Athenaeum share and find more about the Proprietors who came before you? Join your fellow Proprietors on any or all of the organised sessions on a Saturday afternoon. Members Helen & Stephen Lyus will be available to help Proprietors investigate their share’s previous holders, giving advice on how to search various refer-ence sources held in the Athenaeum and offering support and encouragement in a social setting. The aim is to enable Proprietors to write a short paragraph on each holder of their share to contribute to a database of Athenaeum share holders.
Sessions are schedule for 2:30pm in the Reading Room
