Public lectures: Autumn term 2014
Previous lectures
Leeds Recycling and Energy Recovery Facility
Thursday 4 December 2014
Gridlock: Why global cooperation is failing when we need it most
Thursday 4 December 2014
Cancer through the lens of evolution
Thursday 4 December 2014
Fusion reactors: staying cool at 100 million degrees
Wednesday 3 December 2014
Reformation England and the ‘sense’ of loss
Wednesday 3 December 2014
What are you supposed/expected to do to become a superstar in science?
Wednesday 3 December 2014
Informational session and Q&A on work as a dialect coach
Wednesday 3 December 2014
Ghosts in the machine or images on the run? Rethinking Henri Cartier-Bresson's corporate humanism
Monday 1 December 2014
The First Date Painting: On Kawara at Altamira
Thursday 27 November 2014
Constructability, Solvability and Origami
Wednesday 26 November 2014
Wednesday 26 November 2014
The Past Informs the Future: Chatsworth and the Devonshire Collection in 2014
Wednesday 26 November 2014
The Life of Breath: new directions in Medical Humanities
Wednesday 26 November 2014
Sustainability through innovation
Tuesday 25 November 2014
The Postracial is the most racial
Tuesday 25 November 2014
Go Nation: Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in China
Monday 24 November 2014
Playing with the Past—Open Afternoon
Saturday 22 November 2014
York Physics Student Colloquium
Saturday 22 November 2014
Friday 21 November 2014
What's the problem with planets?
Thursday 20 November 2014
Reflecting on the rights of the child in a Nairobi informal settlement
Thursday 20 November 2014
Making medicine more precise for patients with leukaemia and lymphoma
Thursday 20 November 2014
This House believes the benefits system has created a culture of dependency, and not mobility
Thursday 20 November 2014
Biology Bites: The Best Biology Snippets
Wednesday 19 November 2014
Commemoration and Public History
Wednesday 19 November 2014
Tuesday 18 November 2014
Place and the Past: Landscape / Heritage Synergies
Tuesday 18 November 2014
York: Living with History Project
Tuesday 18 November 2014
Monday 17 November 2014
Secret ceramic worlds: The untold story of twentieth-century ceramic art
Monday 17 November 2014
Slumdog Millions: Child labour, charity and India
Monday 17 November 2014
Monday 17 November 2014
Geometry: A secret weapon in the fight against viruses
Sunday 16 November 2014
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s artist in residence talk
Friday 14 November 2014
Parliament and Peace: The NATO Parliamentary Assembly
Friday 14 November 2014
Proposals to Reinforce Public Security in Mexico
Friday 14 November 2014
*CANCELLED* Struggling to protect land rights in Sri Lanka *CANCELLED*
Friday 14 November 2014
Women between the law and tradition in Sudan
Friday 14 November 2014
Healthy planet, healthy people? Health, environment and the emerging sustainable development goals
Thursday 13 November 2014
Solving the nitrogen problem in food production
Wednesday 12 November 2014
Jerusalem's imprint on the European visual memory
Tuesday 11 November 2014
The IPCC, a lead author's experience
Friday 7 November 2014
Streets to Screens: Mediating conflict through digital networks
Friday 7 November 2014
(Why aren't there any) Magnetic Liquids?
Thursday 6 November 2014
‘I see bad people’: Is the sixth sense a moral sense?
Thursday 6 November 2014
Between Violent Political Extremism & Disengagement: Young Muslims' Political Participation
Thursday 6 November 2014
Heroism and its unstitching: Shakespeare’s Henry V in text and performance
Wednesday 5 November 2014
Belarusian LGBTQ movements\initiatives: within the bounds of oppression and irrecognition
Friday 31 October 2014
Spitting Image's Steve Nallon: An insider's guide to comedy
Thursday 30 October 2014
Homosexuality: From toleration to acceptance
Tuesday 28 October 2014
Monday 27 October 2014
Metamaterials and the Science of Invisibility
Thursday 23 October 2014
Sonia Purnell on Boris as Prime Minister: Would Britain be safe in his hands?
Thursday 23 October 2014
Miss Lou, Jamaican culture and Mervyn Morris
Thursday 23 October 2014
Thursday 23 October 2014
Tuesday 21 October 2014
Think it, fund it, grow it: The steps to entrepreneurial success
Monday 20 October 2014
The plight of women workers in the informal settlements of Nairobi
Friday 17 October 2014
Thursday 16 October 2014
Questioning 'Global Mental Health': The uses and non-uses of evidence
Wednesday 15 October 2014
Monday 13 October 2014
Thursday 9 October 2014
This House believes young people are to blame for their disengagement in Westminster politics
Thursday 9 October 2014
“No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails”
Wednesday 8 October 2014
Improving photosynthesis to feed the future
Wednesday 8 October 2014
Tuesday 7 October 2014
Understanding the Scottish Referendum
Tuesday 7 October 2014
The Magazine as Catalogue, or, The Assemblage of Specimens
Monday 6 October 2014
Out of the reach of children? Adolescent health and medicine use in Africa
Wednesday 1 October 2014
Excavating Deep History: Establishing and Circulating Knowledge of Human Origins
Tuesday 16 September 2014
Teaching Science the Practical Way
Friday 5 September 2014