Public lectures: Autumn term 2016
Previous lectures
The Coal Authority: Managing the legacy of coal mining
Thursday 8 December 2016
William Holman Hunt: Pre-Raphaelite and Orientalist
Thursday 1 December 2016
POSTPONED What on earth does the past of Eastern Africa tell us about future sustainability?
Thursday 1 December 2016
Wednesday 30 November 2016
Surviving the Anthropocene: A story of biological gains as well as losses
Wednesday 30 November 2016
Sustainability dilemmas: Short-term political expediency versus long-term planetary exigency
Tuesday 29 November 2016
Tuesday 29 November 2016
Medieval mysticism and the universe in a hazelnut
Friday 25 November 2016
Thursday 24 November 2016
Where stands the Scottish country house in 2016?
Thursday 24 November 2016
Conversion Hysteria 4: Believe It Or Not
Wednesday 23 November 2016
CANCELLED Classed lifeworlds of young graduates
Wednesday 23 November 2016
The Planet and the public: Communicating geo-environmental science to non-technical audiences
Tuesday 22 November 2016
Two years after the Umbrella Movement: Exploring the social consequences of political participation
Tuesday 22 November 2016
Monday 21 November 2016
Exploration, Orientalism and revival: The European discovery of Egypt’s Islamic heritage
Thursday 17 November 2016
Peacebuilding in a turbulent world
Thursday 17 November 2016
'THB state-funded faith schools should be banned'
Thursday 17 November 2016
On cartoons, corruption and censorship - in conversation with Aseem Trivedi
Thursday 17 November 2016
POSTPONED On hip hop, race and politics: The way we talk about things
Wednesday 16 November 2016
Wednesday 16 November 2016
Only connect: From green spaces to green infrastructure
Wednesday 16 November 2016
Tuesday 15 November 2016
Nuclear physics out of the lab
Tuesday 15 November 2016
POSTPONED Breaking the Cycle with Leyla Hussein
Tuesday 15 November 2016
Understanding the Global Citizen, c.1200-c.1600
Tuesday 15 November 2016
Unmaking citizens: Racial exclusions and the privilege of a passport
Tuesday 15 November 2016
Monday 14 November 2016
Policing and security in a post-Brexit world
Friday 11 November 2016
Friday 11 November 2016
Maintaining a Free Press for Somalia
Friday 11 November 2016
The Foss barrier, what happened and what can we learn
Thursday 10 November 2016
Nurse, midwife, civil servant: A personal perspective
Wednesday 9 November 2016
No place like home: Irish writing in a changing world
Wednesday 9 November 2016
The Archers: An every day story of... the real world? Domestic abuse in Ambridge and beyond
Wednesday 9 November 2016
Wednesday 9 November 2016
Blizzards of steel: Viking poetry and the battles of Fulford and Stamford Bridge
Tuesday 8 November 2016
Protecting ocean life in an era of rapid global change
Tuesday 8 November 2016
Cold and trapped: Using lasers to approach absolute zero
Tuesday 8 November 2016
Indian classical music: A way of life
Monday 7 November 2016
The forming of gesture: Notes on Luca Signorelli and Frans van Mieris
Monday 7 November 2016
Are there standards in art criticism?
Thursday 3 November 2016
Stillness: Thinking through critical migration studies and challenging citizenship
Tuesday 1 November 2016
Rosenberg's war: "Iron, honey, gold"
Friday 28 October 2016
Environmental conflicts, extractive industries and human rights in Colombia
Friday 28 October 2016
Thursday 27 October 2016
Life After Leveson: What has changed for the British press?
Thursday 27 October 2016
Organometallic anticancer drugs with novel modes of action
Thursday 27 October 2016
Factory of the Future - Industry 4.0
Thursday 27 October 2016
The Visual Politics of the WHO in Historical Perspective (1949-1974)
Wednesday 26 October 2016
Couple Relationship, Family Management and the Workplace
Wednesday 26 October 2016
Newton and Universal Gravitation: The story of the apple
Tuesday 25 October 2016
Tuesday 25 October 2016
Howling at the moon: Werewolves in western culture
Monday 24 October 2016
Haeckel’s embryos: Images, evolution and fraud
Thursday 20 October 2016
Physics Review: 25th Anniversary Celebration
Wednesday 19 October 2016
Urban Inequalities: Social Distance and Spatial Division
Wednesday 19 October 2016
The Black Prince of Florence: A Medici Mystery
Tuesday 18 October 2016
Tuesday 18 October 2016
Integrity, hypocrisy and the corruption of the 'ideal standard'
Tuesday 18 October 2016
GeekFest 2016 - Free Sunday talks
Sunday 16 October 2016
GeekFest 2016 - Free Saturday talks
Saturday 15 October 2016
Thursday 13 October 2016
Penthouse and Pavement: Inequality in the 21st Century
Thursday 13 October 2016
Challenging stereotypes of ‘science’ and ‘belief’: STEM as cultural identity in a pluralist world?
Thursday 13 October 2016
Story-telling in the Great Mongol Shahnama
Thursday 13 October 2016
Conversion and convergence: The Goddess Mazu and the Virgin Mary in global maritime history
Wednesday 12 October 2016
Universities, Democracy and Public Sociology; The Challenge of the Neo-Liberal Knowledge Regime
Wednesday 12 October 2016
Antibiotics and resistance and you
Wednesday 12 October 2016
Moral illusions: What are they and why should we care?
Tuesday 11 October 2016
The application of evolutionary computation to the diagnosis and monitoring of Parkinson's disease
Thursday 6 October 2016
The criminal brain: Implications for prevention, protection and punishment
Thursday 6 October 2016
Thursday 6 October 2016
Defending Human Rights Defenders: Shrinking space for human rights and civil society
Wednesday 5 October 2016
Critical Emotional Reflexivity in Social Activism
Wednesday 5 October 2016
Fusion Energy – promises, progress and prospects
Tuesday 4 October 2016