INSIGHTS Revisited: Eliminating war in the twenty-first century by Bruce Kent
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 14 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: The Speaker, Parliament and engaging with the modern democracy by John Bercow
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Thursday 16 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: Three Tales from the Biomedical Frontier
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 21 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Shakespeare in the time of lockdown by Professor Julie Sanders
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Thursday 23 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: Alnwick, Rothley and Kirkharle – the three Northumberland landscapes of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown by Nick Owen
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 28 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Allocating scarce resources in a pandemic: ethical reflections by Reverend Bryan Vernon
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Thursday 30 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Revisited: America in Transition: Barack Obama's legacy and Donald Trump's Prospects by Professor Iwan Morgan
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 12 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: Art history in motion: art museums and their publics in a 2020 world by Maria Balshaw
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 5 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
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Thursday 7 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Revisited: Alnwick, Rothley and Kirkharle – the three Northumberland landscapes of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown by Nick Owen
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 28 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Allocating scarce resources in a pandemic: ethical reflections by Reverend Bryan Vernon
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Thursday 30 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Bagpuss: The Central Delight by Sandra Kerr
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Thursday 14 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Revisited: Hearts and Minds: the untold story behind votes for women by Jane Robinson
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 19 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Ageism and age stereotyping during COVID-19 by Professor Thomas Scharf
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Thursday 21 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.
Date/Time: Tuesday 26 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
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.
Date/Time: Thursday 28 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Understanding stem cells by Professor Fiona Watt
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 2 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:45
INSIGHTS Revisited: People’s history in historical pageants in Britain, 1905–2016 by Alexander Hutton
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Thursday 4 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J Sandel
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 9 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: Thursday 11 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Revisited: The Great Wall story – the way I have discovered it by William Lindesay
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 16 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: Seeing homosexuality in Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw by Dr Emma Parker and Leonie Orton
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 23 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.
Date/Time: Thursday 25 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Revisited: British Women in the Liberation of Frederick Douglass
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 30 June 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.
Date/Time: Thursday 2 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: Everyday sexism by Laura Bates
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 7 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.
Date/Time: Thursday 9 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: The Bohemian Diaspora: my relationship to the art world by Grayson Perry
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 14 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: The Poetry of Uncertainty by Professor Sinéad Morrissey
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Thursday 16 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Revisited: Gertrude Bell and the ‘Woman Question’ by Professor Helen Berry
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 21 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: New voices on arts, humanities and social sciences
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Thursday 23 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: The bountiful sea: prospects for sustainable use of marine bioresources by Peter Olive
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 28 July 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.
Date/Time: Thursday 30 July 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.
Date/Time: Tuesday 4 August 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: The Victoria Cross – Spoiling a Good Story? By Dr Andrew Marriott
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Thursday 6 August 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Dressed: How to think about clothes by Professor Shahidha Bari
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 6 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.
Date/Time: Thursday 8 October 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: A global history of sexual violence by Professor Joanna Bourke
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Thursday 15 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.
Date/Time: Tuesday 20 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.
Date/Time: Thursday 22 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.
Date/Time: Tuesday 27 October 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.
Date/Time: Thursday 29 October 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: The rise of neoliberal feminism by Professor Catherine Rottenberg
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Tuesday 3 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.
Date/Time: NEW DATE: Thursday 5 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.
Date/Time: Tuesday 10 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Hostile environment: challenging anti-immigration myths by Dr Maya Goodfellow
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Thursday 12 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.
Date/Time: Tuesday 17 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.
Date/Time: Thursday 19 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.
Date/Time: Tuesday 24 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: New voices on science, agriculture and engineering
This is an online event.
Date/Time: Thursday 26 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
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.
Date/Time: Tuesday 1 December 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
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: Tuesday 9 February 2021, 5.30pm
LGBT+ History Month Lecture: Is the gay novel dead? by Paul Burston
This is an online event
Date/Time: Thursday 11 February 2021, 5.30pm
Defence Lecture: Why do we fight? Evolutionary neuroscience meets conflict studies by Dr Mike Martin
This is an online event
Date/Time: Tuesday 16 February 2021, Note: 6.30pm start
The Corona crash: How the pandemic will change capitalism by Grace Blakeley
This is an online event
Date/Time: Thursday 18 February 2021, 5.30pm
Child poverty in the North East region by Jonathan Bradshaw
This is an online event
Date/Time: Tuesday 2 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
Date/Time: Thursday 4 March 2021, 5.30pm
Fickling Lecture on Developments in Children’s Literature: What is life? by Sir Paul Nurse
This is an online event
Date/Time: Tuesday 9 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: Thursday 11 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
Date/Time: *NEW DATE* Tuesday 16 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
Date/Time: Thursday 18 March 2021, 5.30pm
Britain and Europe: An unsettled history by Professor Helen Parr
This is an online event
Date/Time: Tuesday 23 March 2021, 5.30pm
Tales from the biomedical frontier
This is an online event
Date/Time: Thursday 25 March 2021, 5.30pm
Tyneside Geographical Society Lecture: Why geographers need to stand up for the planet by Zion Lights
This is an online event
Date/Time: Tuesday 27 April 2021, 5.30pm
Brexit and Agriculture: What’s next for British farmers? by Dr Carmen Hubbard
This is an online event
Date/Time: Thursday 6 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
Date/Time: Tuesday 11 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
Date/Time: Thursday 13 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
Date/Time: *NEW DATE* Tuesday 18 May 2021, 5.30pm
Inaugural Barbara Strang Lecture: Accent prejudice: #us an’ all? by Professor Joan Beal
This is an online event
Date/Time: Thursday 20 May 2021, 5.30pm
Britain after the Pandemic by John Rentoul
Date/Time: Tuesday 12 October 2021, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
Women, men and money in Britain by Professor Emma Griffin
Date/Time: Thursday 14 October 2021, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
In conversation with Darren Henley, Chief Executive of Arts Council England
Date/Time: Tuesday 19 October 2021, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
Black History Month Lecture: Warm words are not enough – repaying the debt to our Black heroes by Marcus Ryder
Date/Time: Thursday 21 October 2021, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
Rethinking the future of housing worldwide: Favelas as a sustainable model? by Dr Theresa Williamson
Date/Time: Tuesday 26 October 2021, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
Do we need the fossil fuel industry to help in the transition towards net zero?
Date/Time: Thursday 28 October 2021, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
Revolting: The political significance of punk around the globe by Professor Kevin C Dunn
Date/Time: Tuesday 2 November 2021, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
Putting disadvantaged children at the heart of recovery by Anne Longfield OBE
Date/Time: Thursday 4 November 2021, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
How to make the world add up by Tim Harford
Date/Time: Tuesday 9 November 2021, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Tuesday 16 November 2021, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
Climate change and global corporations: Five sources of responsibility failure by Dr Cristina Neesham
Date/Time: Tuesday 23 November 2021, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
New voices on arts, humanities and social sciences
Date/Time: Thursday 25 November 2021, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
Perspectives and understandings of ‘good farming’ by Dr Amy Proctor
Date/Time: Tuesday 30 November 2021, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
New Conservatives? The Conservative Party after Brexit by Neil Carmichael
Date/Time: Thursday 2 December 2021, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
Beauty at the beginning of life by Professor Mary Herbert
Date/Time: Tuesday 7 December 2021, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Thursday 10 February 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
INSIGHTS Virtual Lecture: Neuroblastoma: A master of disguise and a challenge to cure by Professor Deborah Tweddle
Date/Time: Tuesday 22 February 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
LGBTQ+ History Month Lecture: Saving Our Transcestry by E-J Scott
Date/Time: *NEW DATE* Thursday 24 February 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
British Academy Lecture: For a reparatory social science by Professor Gurminder K Bhambra
Date/Time: *NEW DATE* Thursday 3 March 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Tuesday 8 March 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
INSIGHTS Virtual Lecture: Shakespeare as a sound artist by Bruce R. Smith
Date/Time: Thursday 10 March 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
Tyneside Geographical Society Lecture: Pocketbooks, cairns and carrier pigeons: polar postal systems by Nancy Campbell
Date/Time: Thursday 17 March 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
Tyneside Geographical Society Lecture: Pocketbooks, cairns and carrier pigeons: polar postal systems by Nancy Campbell
Date/Time: Thursday 17 March 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
INSIGHTS Virtual Lecture: Who runs your University? by Dr John Hogan
Date/Time: Thursday 24 March 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Monday 14 March 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: This is an online event
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: The state of our Universe by Professor Edmund Copeland
Date/Time: Tuesday 26 April 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Wednesday 4 May 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: New voices on science, agriculture and engineering
Date/Time: Thursday 12 May 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Levelling up – national mission and global challenge by The Rt Hon Justine Greening
Date/Time: Tuesday 17 May 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: The Monarchy and the UK’s evolving constitution by Dr Catherine Haddon
Date/Time: Thursday 19 May 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
The Partition of India 75 years on: An interconnected history by Professor Sarah Ansari
Date/Time: Thursday 6 October 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Tuesday 11 October 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
Lecture to mark World Anatomy Day: Anatomy anatomised by Professor Susan Standring
Date/Time: Thursday 13 October 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
A lifetime in Spanish fiction by Eduardo Mendoza
Date/Time: Tuesday 18 October 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Thursday 20 October 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
SANT Lecture: Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard by Dr Martin Goldberg
Date/Time: Wednesday 26 October 2022, note: 6.00pm start
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
The emerging role of whistle-blowers in democracies by Robert Tibbo
Date/Time: Tuesday 1 November 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
Hadrian’s Wall – what’s the big deal?
Date/Time: Tuesday 8 November 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
Three tales from the frontier of medical sciences research
Date/Time: Tuesday 15 November 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
Russia’s War on Ukraine: How history can counter myths and disinformation by Dr Robert Dale
Date/Time: Thursday 10 November 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Thursday 1 December 2022, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
Holmes Lectures for 10- to 14-year-olds: Keeping healthy with sport and food (Part 2)
Date/Time: Wednesday 25 January 2023, 5.00pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
Holmes Lectures for 10- to 14-year-olds: Keeping healthy with sport and food (Part 1)
Date/Time: Wednesday 18 January 2023, 5.00pm
Venue: 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: Tuesday 7 February 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Tuesday 28 February 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Measuring Mount Everest’s weather by Dr Tom Matthews
Date/Time: Tuesday 14 March 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Thursday 23 March 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
*New Date* LGBT+ History Month Lecture: Variations: Writing trans memoir, fiction and journalism by Juliet Jacques
Date/Time: Thursday 30 March 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Tuesday 25 April 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Thursday 27 April 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: AI and data science: Opportunities and threats by Professor Paul Watson
Date/Time: Thursday 4 May 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: War in Europe: the invasion of Ukraine one year on (Panel Discussion)
Date/Time: Tuesday 16 May 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Thursday 18 May 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: Online Lecture
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: The history of the NHS - and its future by Dr Andrew Seaton
Date/Time: Thursday 5 October 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Thursday 12 October 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Tuesday 17 October 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Tuesday 24 October 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Wednesday 25 October 2023, 6.00pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: We have heard the chimes at midnight: Verdi, Falstaff and time by Dr Martin Pickard
Date/Time: Thursday 2 November 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Thursday 9 November 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: How the end of empire upended the Union by Professor Stuart Ward
Date/Time: Tuesday 14 November 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Didn’t you use to be Chris Mullin? Diaries 2010-2022 by Chris Mullin
Date/Time: Tuesday 28 November 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: New voices on science, agriculture and engineering
Date/Time: Tuesday 5 December 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Wednesday 17 January 2024, 5.00pm
Venue: 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
Date/Time: Thursday 7 December 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Wednesday 24 January 2024, 5.00pm
Venue: 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
Date/Time: Thursday 1 February 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
Darwin Day Lecture: Why your DNA is not your destiny by Professor Jelena Mann
Date/Time: Thursday 8 February 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
Science sans frontiers by Sir Keith Burnett
Date/Time: Tuesday 13 February 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Tuesday 20 February 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
Sophia Lecture: General Election 2024: Is change really possible? by Pippa Crerar
Date/Time: Thursday 29 February 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Wednesday 6 March 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Thursday 7 March 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
British Science Week Lecture: Chiral molecular materials and changing the world by Dr Jess Wade
Date/Time: Tuesday 12 March 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
Author Event: In conversation with Alice Loxton - in association with Blackwell's
Date/Time: Monday 18 March 2024, 6.00 - 7.00pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
Jacobson Lecture: The NHS of the future and how we get there by Amanda Pritchard
Date/Time: Thursday 21 March 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
The theatre in the public conversation by Michael Billington
Date/Time: Tuesday 30 April 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
British Academy Lecture: The sign language myth by Professor Annelies Kusters
Date/Time: Thursday 25 April 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Tuesday 14 May 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
The Russia-Ukraine War: The future of conflict, or the past? by Professor Mark Galeotti
Date/Time: Thursday 16 May 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Thursday 9 May 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Election 2024: A very British revolution by Peter Kellner
Date/Time: Tuesday 8 October 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Thursday 10 October 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Molds, mushrooms and medicines by Professor Nicholas P Money
Date/Time: Tuesday 15 October 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: New voices on arts, humanities and social sciences
Date/Time: Tuesday 22 October 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Memorial dissonances: Undoing the Valley of Cuelgamuros in contemporary Spain by Francisco Ferrándiz
Date/Time: Thursday 24 October 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
SANT Lecture: The extramural settlements and bathhouse at Birdoswald by Tony Willmott and Professor Ian Haynes
Date/Time: Wednesday 30 October 2024, 6.00-7.00pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: The 2024 United States Presidential Election by Emeritus Professor Iwan Morgan
Date/Time: Thursday 7 November 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Tuesday 12 November 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Thursday 21 November 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Thursday 28 November 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: 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: Tuesday 3 December 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
John H Holmes Memorial Lectures for 10- to 14-year olds: How engineering shapes our world
Date/Time: Wednesday 15 January, 5.00 - 6.00pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ
John H Holmes Memorial Lectures for 10- to 14-year olds: Engineering for a better world: Clean water for all
Date/Time: Wednesday 22 January, 5.00 - 6.00pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Ãå±±½ûµØ