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You can find recordings here of past lectures from before February 2025, which you can stream and listen to again.

John H Holmes Memorial Lectures for 10- to 14-year olds: Engineering for a better world: Clean water for all

Date/Time Location
Wednesday 22 January, 5.00 - 6.00pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

John H Holmes Memorial Lectures for 10- to 14-year olds: How engineering shapes our world

Date/Time Location
Wednesday 15 January, 5.00 - 6.00pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Sounding the Angel: Recording the grassroots memorial site at the Angel of the North by Professor Anne Whitehead and David de la Haye

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 3 December 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: When healthcare harms: Why inclusive treatment of disabled people can avoid health inequities by Professor Tom Shakespeare

Date/Time Location
Thursday 28 November 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: A multi-sensory journey to a black hole: Using sound to enhance data exploration, accessibility, and immersive education by Dr Chris Harrison

Date/Time Location
Thursday 21 November 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Jack Jeffery Sustainability Lecture: What a load of rubbish! Bins, behaviours and the circular economy by Dr Helen Holmes

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 12 November 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: The 2024 United States Presidential Election by Emeritus Professor Iwan Morgan

Date/Time Location
Thursday 7 November 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

SANT Lecture: The extramural settlements and bathhouse at Birdoswald by Tony Willmott and Professor Ian Haynes

Date/Time Location
Wednesday 30 October 2024, 6.00-7.00pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Memorial dissonances: Undoing the Valley of Cuelgamuros in contemporary Spain by Francisco Ferrándiz

Date/Time Location
Thursday 24 October 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: New voices on arts, humanities and social sciences

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 22 October 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Molds, mushrooms and medicines by Professor Nicholas P Money

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 15 October 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Black History Month Lecture: From black squares to full circles: Did the 2020 scramble for Black writers make a difference? by Patrice Lawrence

Date/Time Location
Thursday 10 October 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Election 2024: A very British revolution by Peter Kellner

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 8 October 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

The Russia-Ukraine War: The future of conflict, or the past? by Professor Mark Galeotti

Date/Time Location
Thursday 16 May 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Three tales from the frontier of medical sciences research with Doyin Alao, James Allison and Laura Booth

Doyin Alao, James Allison and Laura Booth

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 14 May 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Robinson Prize Lecture in Cosmology: Dark matter through the looking glass of Homo Narrans by Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Date/Time Location
Thursday 9 May 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

The theatre in the public conversation by Michael Billington

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 30 April 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

British Academy Lecture: The sign language myth by Professor Annelies Kusters

Date/Time Location
Thursday 25 April 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Jacobson Lecture: The NHS of the future and how we get there by Amanda Pritchard

Date/Time Location
Thursday 21 March 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Author Event: In conversation with Alice Loxton - in association with Blackwell's

Date/Time Location
Monday 18 March 2024, 6.00 - 7.00pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

British Science Week Lecture: Chiral molecular materials and changing the world by Dr Jess Wade

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 12 March 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Riddell Lectures: From AI to social media: Natural psychological reactions as a guide to tech-prudence by Justin L Barrett (Lecture 2)

Date/Time Location
Thursday 7 March 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Riddell Lectures: What makes cultural innovations attractive? Lessons from the cognitive science of religion by Justin L Barrett (Lecture 1)

Date/Time Location
Wednesday 6 March 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Sophia Lecture: General Election 2024: Is change really possible? by Pippa Crerar

Date/Time Location
Thursday 29 February 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

LGBTQ+ History Month Lecture: Collecting, archiving and celebrating LGBTQIA+ and alternative sexualities: The adventures of an archivist by Stef Dickers

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 20 February 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Science sans frontiers by Sir Keith Burnett

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 13 February 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Darwin Day Lecture: Why your DNA is not your destiny by Professor Jelena Mann

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Thursday 8 February 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Defence Lecture: Can we manage a very dangerous world? by The Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT

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Thursday 1 February 2024, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

John H Holmes Memorial Lectures for 10- to 14-Year-Olds: Humans vs artificial intelligence (Part 2)

Date/Time Location
Wednesday 24 January 2024, 5.00pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

John H Holmes Memorial Lectures for 10- to 14-Year-Olds: Humans vs artificial intelligence (Lecture 1)

Date/Time Location
Wednesday 17 January 2024, 5.00pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: First responder memories of the 1988 Lockerbie Disaster by Dr Andy Clark and Dr Colin Atkinson

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Thursday 7 December 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: New voices on science, agriculture and engineering

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Tuesday 5 December 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Didn’t you use to be Chris Mullin? Diaries 2010-2022 by Chris Mullin

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Tuesday 28 November 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: How the end of empire upended the Union by Professor Stuart Ward

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Tuesday 14 November 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Everything you need to know about the menopause (but were too afraid to ask) by Kate Muir

Date/Time Location
Thursday 9 November 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: We have heard the chimes at midnight: Verdi, Falstaff and time by Dr Martin Pickard

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Thursday 2 November 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Society of Antiquaries of Ãå±±½ûµØ upon Tyne Lecture: The way, the word, and the water: The archaeology of 17th century Ãå±±½ûµØ by Dr Pam Graves

Date/Time Location
Wednesday 25 October 2023, 6.00pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Green energy materials in 3D: Crystal gazing on the atomic scale by Professor Saiful Islam

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 24 October 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

British Academy Lecture: One is not born, but becomes, a genius: Another Simone de Beauvoir by Dr Kate Kirkpatrick

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 17 October 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Writing with your feet: Women who walk as an exercise in memory and writing by Dr Andrea Jeftanovic

Date/Time Location
Thursday 12 October 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: The history of the NHS - and its future by Dr Andrew Seaton

Date/Time Location
Thursday 5 October 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Virtual Lecture: Barbara Strang Lecture: Our resilient English language by Professor Kate Burridge

This is an online lecture

Date/Time Location
Thursday 18 May 2023, 5.30pm Online Lecture

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: War in Europe: the invasion of Ukraine one year on (Panel Discussion)

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 16 May 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: AI and data science: Opportunities and threats by Professor Paul Watson

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Thursday 4 May 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Virtual You: How building your digital twin will revolutionise medicine and change your life by Roger Highfield

Date/Time Location
Thursday 27 April 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

*New Date* INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Punching above our weight? How Britain broke the world by Arthur Snell

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 25 April 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

*New Date* LGBT+ History Month Lecture: Variations: Writing trans memoir, fiction and journalism by Juliet Jacques

Date/Time Location
Thursday 30 March 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Can Humanity Survive the Anthropocene? It depends on who we think we are by Professor Graham Parkes

Date/Time Location
Thursday 23 March 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Measuring Mount Everest’s weather by Dr Tom Matthews

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 14 March 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Breaking down the barriers in the treatment of cardiovascular disease by Professor Vijay Kunadian

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 28 February 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Defence Lecture: Are women better leaders than men, does diversity matter in military operations? by Major General Kristin Lund

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 7 February 2023, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Holmes Lectures for 10- to 14-year-olds: Keeping healthy with sport and food (Part 2)

Date/Time Location
Wednesday 25 January 2023, 5.00pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Holmes Lectures for 10- to 14-year-olds: Keeping healthy with sport and food (Part 1)

Date/Time Location
Wednesday 18 January 2023, 5.00pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Lecture to mark 40 years of cancer research at Ãå±±½ûµØ: Down the rabbit hole: Adventures in children’s cancer research by Professor Steve Clifford

Date/Time Location
Thursday 1 December 2022, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Three tales from the frontier of medical sciences research

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 15 November 2022, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Russia’s War on Ukraine: How history can counter myths and disinformation by Dr Robert Dale

Date/Time Location
Thursday 10 November 2022, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Hadrian’s Wall – what’s the big deal?

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 8 November 2022, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

The emerging role of whistle-blowers in democracies by Robert Tibbo

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 1 November 2022, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

SANT Lecture: Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard by Dr Martin Goldberg

Date/Time Location
Wednesday 26 October 2022, note: 6.00pm start Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Celebrating 30 years of the Centre for Rural Economy: Trade policy and environmental sustainability by Professor Alan Matthews

Date/Time Location
Thursday 20 October 2022, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

A lifetime in Spanish fiction by Eduardo Mendoza

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 18 October 2022, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Lecture to mark World Anatomy Day: Anatomy anatomised by Professor Susan Standring

Date/Time Location
Thursday 13 October 2022, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Jack Jeffery Lecture: People powered: what if people, not technology, are the answer to the climate crisis? by Dr Katy Roelich

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 11 October 2022, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

The Partition of India 75 years on: An interconnected history by Professor Sarah Ansari

Date/Time Location
Thursday 6 October 2022, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: The Monarchy and the UK’s evolving constitution by Dr Catherine Haddon

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Thursday 19 May 2022, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Levelling up – national mission and global challenge by The Rt Hon Justine Greening

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 17 May 2022, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: New voices on science, agriculture and engineering

Date/Time Location
Thursday 12 May 2022, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

Edward Heath Lecture: What has happened to the world order that Edward Heath helped to create? by Lord Patten

Date/Time Location
Wednesday 4 May 2022, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Public Lecture: The state of our Universe by Professor Edmund Copeland

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 26 April 2022, 5.30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ

INSIGHTS Virtual Lecture: Who runs your University? by Dr John Hogan

Date/Time Location
Thursday 24 March 2022, 5.30pm This is an online event

Tyneside Geographical Society Lecture: Pocketbooks, cairns and carrier pigeons: polar postal systems by Nancy Campbell

Date/Time Location
Thursday 17 March 2022, 5.30pm This is an online event

Tyneside Geographical Society Lecture: Pocketbooks, cairns and carrier pigeons: polar postal systems by Nancy Campbell

Date/Time Location
Thursday 17 March 2022, 5.30pm This is an online event

Lecture presented in association with Blackwells to mark British Science Week: The Joy of Science by Jim Al-Khalili

Date/Time Location
Monday 14 March 2022, 5.30pm This is an online event

INSIGHTS Virtual Lecture: Shakespeare as a sound artist by Bruce R. Smith

Date/Time Location
Thursday 10 March 2022, 5.30pm This is an online event

Sophia Lecture: The role of place in recovering from the crisis: what have universities got to do it with it? by Dame Julia Unwin

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 8 March 2022, 5.30pm This is an online event

British Academy Lecture: For a reparatory social science by Professor Gurminder K Bhambra

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*NEW DATE* Thursday 3 March 2022, 5.30pm This is an online event

LGBTQ+ History Month Lecture: Saving Our Transcestry by E-J Scott

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*NEW DATE* Thursday 24 February 2022, 5.30pm This is an online event

INSIGHTS Virtual Lecture: Neuroblastoma: A master of disguise and a challenge to cure by Professor Deborah Tweddle

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 22 February 2022, 5.30pm This is an online event

Darwin Day Lecture with the North East Humanists: The handshake: a gripping history... and a biological one by Ella Al-Shamahi

Date/Time Location
Thursday 10 February 2022, 5.30pm This is an online event

Beauty at the beginning of life by Professor Mary Herbert

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Tuesday 7 December 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

New Conservatives? The Conservative Party after Brexit by Neil Carmichael

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Thursday 2 December 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

Perspectives and understandings of ‘good farming’ by Dr Amy Proctor

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 30 November 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

New voices on arts, humanities and social sciences

Date/Time Location
Thursday 25 November 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

Climate change and global corporations: Five sources of responsibility failure by Dr Cristina Neesham

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 23 November 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

Jacobson Lecture: Leading the fight against virus spread: the Integrated Covid Hub North East by Dr Akhtar Husain

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 16 November 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

How to make the world add up by Tim Harford

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Tuesday 9 November 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

Putting disadvantaged children at the heart of recovery by Anne Longfield OBE

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Thursday 4 November 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

Revolting: The political significance of punk around the globe by Professor Kevin C Dunn

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Tuesday 2 November 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

Do we need the fossil fuel industry to help in the transition towards net zero?

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Thursday 28 October 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

Rethinking the future of housing worldwide: Favelas as a sustainable model? by Dr Theresa Williamson

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Tuesday 26 October 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

Black History Month Lecture: Warm words are not enough – repaying the debt to our Black heroes by Marcus Ryder

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Thursday 21 October 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

In conversation with Darren Henley, Chief Executive of Arts Council England

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Tuesday 19 October 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

Women, men and money in Britain by Professor Emma Griffin

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Thursday 14 October 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

Britain after the Pandemic by John Rentoul

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Tuesday 12 October 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

Inaugural Barbara Strang Lecture: Accent prejudice: #us an’ all? by Professor Joan Beal

This is an online event

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Thursday 20 May 2021, 5.30pm

Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate crime – why is it rising and what can be done? by Iman Atta

This is an online event

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*NEW DATE* Tuesday 18 May 2021, 5.30pm

Jacobson Lecture: Long-Covid: What will be the legacy from the pandemic? by Professor Chris Brightling

This is an online event

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Thursday 13 May 2021, 5.30pm

From All Writers Matter to Zadie Smith (via Badgers) – a speedy A to Z of being a Black British children’s writer in a publishing industry still working on diversity by Patrice Lawrence

This is an online event

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Tuesday 11 May 2021, 5.30pm

Brexit and Agriculture: What’s next for British farmers? by Dr Carmen Hubbard

This is an online event

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Thursday 6 May 2021, 5.30pm

Tyneside Geographical Society Lecture: Why geographers need to stand up for the planet by Zion Lights

This is an online event

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Tuesday 27 April 2021, 5.30pm

Tales from the biomedical frontier

This is an online event

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Thursday 25 March 2021, 5.30pm

Britain and Europe: An unsettled history by Professor Helen Parr

This is an online event

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Tuesday 23 March 2021, 5.30pm

Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate crime – why is it rising and what can be done? by Iman Atta

This is an online event

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Thursday 18 March 2021, 5.30pm

Age of the techno-scene: Why we will need the arts and humanities to tame the tiger of the ‘4th Industrial Revolution’ and artificial intelligence by Professor Andrew Thompson

This is an online event

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*NEW DATE* Tuesday 16 March 2021, 5.30pm

What’s the Story? The job of directing character-led action films by Marc Jobst

This is an online event

Date/Time Location
Thursday 11 March 2021, 5.30pm

Fickling Lecture on Developments in Children’s Literature: What is life? by Sir Paul Nurse

This is an online event

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Tuesday 9 March 2021, 5.30pm

Stuck: How vaccine rumours start and why they don’t go away by Professor Heidi J Larson

This is an online event

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Thursday 4 March 2021, 5.30pm

Child poverty in the North East region by Jonathan Bradshaw

This is an online event

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Tuesday 2 March 2021, 5.30pm

The Corona crash: How the pandemic will change capitalism by Grace Blakeley

This is an online event

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Thursday 18 February 2021, 5.30pm

Defence Lecture: Why do we fight? Evolutionary neuroscience meets conflict studies by Dr Mike Martin

This is an online event

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Tuesday 16 February 2021, Note: 6.30pm start

LGBT+ History Month Lecture: Is the gay novel dead? by Paul Burston

This is an online event

Date/Time Location
Thursday 11 February 2021, 5.30pm

President Biden: a clean slate, a correction to the norm, or more of the same? by Sophia Gaston

This is an online event

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 9 February 2021, 5.30pm

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: The first draft human genome at 20: how has genomics altered the way humanity understands itself? by Professor Steve Yearley

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 1 December 2020, 17:30 - 18:15

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: New voices on science, agriculture and engineering

This is an online event.

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Thursday 26 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Poetry that ‘will live and do good’. Reimagining Wordsworth by Jeff Cowton

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 24 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: ‘Now we have your attention’: pandemics, protest, and politics from below by Jack Shenker

This is an online event.

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Thursday 19 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Lions of the North – the Percys and Alnwick Castle – 1000 years of history by Ralph Percy

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 17 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Hostile environment: challenging anti-immigration myths by Dr Maya Goodfellow

This is an online event.

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Thursday 12 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Birds and us: how we shaped them and they shaped us by Professor Tim Birkhead

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 10 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: World Mental Health Day Lecture: There and back again – a journey through mental illness by Adam Gridley

This is an online event.

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NEW DATE: Thursday 5 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: The rise of neoliberal feminism by Professor Catherine Rottenberg

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 3 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Oral History Lecture: After displacement: journeys of the mind and memory communities by Professor Indira Chowdhury

This is an online event.

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Thursday 29 October 2020, 17:30 - 18:15

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: The robotic alchemist - digital assembly of drugs and chemical brains by Professor Lee Cronin

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 27 October 2020, 17:30 - 18:15

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Everything from nothing: how our universe was made by Professor Carlos Frenk

This is an online event.

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Thursday 22 October 2020, 17:30 - 18:15

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Black History Month Lecture: A Bitter Sweet Journey: from slavery to freedom and beyond the colour line by Dr Keith Magee

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 20 October 2020, 17:30 - 18:15

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: A global history of sexual violence by Professor Joanna Bourke

This is an online event.

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Thursday 15 October 2020, 17:30 - 18:15

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Slowdown: The end of the great acceleration – and why it’s good for the planet, the economy, and our lives by Professor Danny Dorling

This is an online event.

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Thursday 8 October 2020, 17:30 - 18:15

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Dressed: How to think about clothes by Professor Shahidha Bari

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 6 October 2020, 17:30 - 18:15

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: The Victoria Cross – Spoiling a Good Story? By Dr Andrew Marriott

This is an online event.

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Thursday 6 August 2020, 17:30 - 18:00

INSIGHTS Revisited: Out of the wreckage: a new politics for an age of crisis by George Monbiot

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 4 August 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Kurt Schwitters, The Merz Barn, and the ‘Biomorphic 40s' by Lloyd Gibson

This is an online event.

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Thursday 30 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:00

INSIGHTS Revisited: The bountiful sea: prospects for sustainable use of marine bioresources by Peter Olive

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 28 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: New voices on arts, humanities and social sciences

This is an online event.

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Thursday 23 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Revisited: Gertrude Bell and the ‘Woman Question’ by Professor Helen Berry

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 21 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: The Poetry of Uncertainty by Professor Sinéad Morrissey

This is an online event.

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Thursday 16 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:00

INSIGHTS Revisited: The Bohemian Diaspora: my relationship to the art world by Grayson Perry

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 14 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Philosophy in times of crisis: thinking about Covid-19 with the help of Emmanuel Levinas by Dr Tina Chanter

This is an online event.

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Thursday 9 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Revisited: Everyday sexism by Laura Bates

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 7 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Revisited: The Talk of the Toon: a linguistic ‘time capsule’ for the Google generation

This is an online event.

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Thursday 2 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Revisited: British Women in the Liberation of Frederick Douglass

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 30 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Collecting Classical Antiquity: Brian B. Shefton 100 years by Andrew Parkin

This is an online event.

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Thursday 25 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:00

INSIGHTS Revisited: Seeing homosexuality in Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw by Dr Emma Parker and Leonie Orton

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 23 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Revisited: The Great Wall story – the way I have discovered it by William Lindesay

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 16 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: What’s the point of university during a pandemic? Hints from CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien by Professor Nick Megoran

This is an online event.

Date/Time Location
Thursday 11 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:00

INSIGHTS Revisited: What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J Sandel

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 9 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Revisited: People’s history in historical pageants in Britain, 1905–2016 by Alexander Hutton

This is an online event.

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Thursday 4 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Understanding stem cells by Professor Fiona Watt

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 2 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:45

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Is this the end? Hadrian's Wall and the End of the Roman Empire by Dr Rob Collins

This is an online event.

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Thursday 28 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Quantifying the impact of Covid-19 on city systems by Professor Phil James

This is an online event.

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Tuesday 26 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Ageism and age stereotyping during COVID-19 by Professor Thomas Scharf

This is an online event.

Date/Time Location
Thursday 21 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00

INSIGHTS Revisited: Hearts and Minds: the untold story behind votes for women by Jane Robinson

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Date/Time Location
Tuesday 19 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Bagpuss: The Central Delight by Sandra Kerr

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Date/Time Location
Thursday 14 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00

INSIGHTS Revisited: America in Transition: Barack Obama's legacy and Donald Trump's Prospects by Professor Iwan Morgan

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Date/Time Location
Tuesday 12 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: More than Food: solidarity and care at the Ãå±±½ûµØ West End Foodbank by Dr Alison Atkinson-Phillips

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Date/Time Location
Thursday 7 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00

INSIGHTS Revisited: Art history in motion: art museums and their publics in a 2020 world by Maria Balshaw

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Date/Time Location
Tuesday 5 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Allocating scarce resources in a pandemic: ethical reflections by Reverend Bryan Vernon

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Date/Time Location
Thursday 30 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:00

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Allocating scarce resources in a pandemic: ethical reflections by Reverend Bryan Vernon

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Date/Time Location
Thursday 30 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:00

INSIGHTS Revisited: Alnwick, Rothley and Kirkharle – the three Northumberland landscapes of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown by Nick Owen

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Date/Time Location
Tuesday 28 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Revisited: Alnwick, Rothley and Kirkharle – the three Northumberland landscapes of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown by Nick Owen

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Date/Time Location
Tuesday 28 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Shakespeare in the time of lockdown by Professor Julie Sanders

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Date/Time Location
Thursday 23 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Revisited: Three Tales from the Biomedical Frontier

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Date/Time Location
Tuesday 21 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Revisited: The Speaker, Parliament and engaging with the modern democracy by John Bercow

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Date/Time Location
Thursday 16 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Revisited: Eliminating war in the twenty-first century by Bruce Kent

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Date/Time Location
Tuesday 14 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30