Open lectures: Semester 2 - 2025-26
Upcoming events
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An Algerian journalist explores 2019's protests, political deadlock, and the resulting erosion of human rights.
The second in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, writer and psychoanalyst.
How can education evolve to meet the demands of a shifting global economy while securing a fairer future?
This webinar explores data centre expansion, examining five strategic dimensions to align digital growth with resilient, low-carbon sustainability goals.
Join Dr Christian Diget to explore how atomic nuclei are made, from astrophysical processes to cutting-edge experiments. Journey through the nuclear chart, to discover the properties of the building blocks of our universe.
Join Professor Erin Wilson as she challenges our preconceived ideas about what “religion” is and considering what it means for humanity in the 21st century.
Graham Nicholas details recreating the P2 steam locomotive using modern engineering, original designs, and project management.
A series of vignettes building a collaborative feminist glossary to sustain intersectional struggle and accountability.
Jessica Hamel-Akré traces modern diet culture and female appetite back to eighteenth-century roots through history and memoir.
Susan Watson presents research-driven policy solutions addressing gendered online abuse against women in public life.
Rosalind Hayes examines how Victorian animal photography sparked technological innovation and shaped modern views of nature using animals as photographic subjects.
Habib Shehadeh Hanna explores Palestinian music as cultural activism through a free open lecture.
We talk about stars dying, but this is rarely the end of the story. Join us to find out about truly bizarre stellar zombies!
Leading scholar Professor Aboh presents 'Universal Multilingualism', examining language learnability and evolution through comparative syntax across diverse global language families.
A colourful account of women’s health, beauty, and cosmetic aids, from stays and corsets to today’s viral trends.
Ever wondered what happens when a VR horror film can sense your fear, and change how the story is told in real time?
Join us to find out about targeted alpha therapy, a new approach to cancer treatment, and how scientists ensure that it’s safe and correctly prepared for patients.
Will Ing explains how television commissioning works, how TV production companies operate, and how you as a writer or producer can get an idea from inside your head and onto TV, without making all the mistakes he made!
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Explore the cutting-edge research behind Inertial Fusion Energy: Igniting milligram quantities of fusion fuel using high power lasers, aiming to produce clean, green electricity.
Explore the cutting-edge research behind Inertial Fusion Energy: Igniting milligram quantities of fusion fuel using high power lasers, aiming to produce clean, green electricity.
This talk explores Dickens’s Venice as a dynamic ‘dream,’ navigating fugue states, sensory overload, and prophetic warnings of environmental loss.
Past events
Discover the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything you've been told about transgender history.
Join us to learn about how asteroseismology, the study of pulsations in stars, is contributing to a revolution of understanding of stellar interiors.
Join the University of York, Compass and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on Friday 20 February as we partner for the launch of Professor Kate Pickett’s new book.
This talk explores how Dürer and Holbein navigated the tension between abstract geometry and material reality in Renaissance-era Germany.
In the York Medieval Lecture, Kathy Lavezzo will draw on her new book, Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem (Fordham, 2025).
Everyone recognises the figure of the samurai - a global icon of the fearless, virtuous warrior. But how much of the legend is true?
Please join us for a lecture and Q&A with Geoff White on his experience as an investigative journalist specialising in cybercrime and organised crime, working for the BBC, Audible, Penguin, Sky News, the Sunday Times and more.
Economic insecurity fuels modern populism; Raymond Williams’s theories offer a cultural framework to rebuild stable communities and restore democratic resilience.
Drawing on the events of 3 January 2026, this talk offers an insider perspective on Venezuela’s crisis beyond the headlines.
David Trousdale, currently the Principal Advisor on Climate Change and sustainability at Newcastle City Council, discusses his new book published with the IET.
The James Webb Space Telescope produces stunning images of the universe. Often ignored are the engineering challenges overcome in the construction and operation of the telescope.
Director, Producer and Writer, Stefan Schwartz will be coming to the School of Arts and Creative Technologies to deliver a Q&A about the work of an international film- and television-maker.