A Transient Universe, Heart Surgery and The Great Depression

events

Wednesday, 5 November 2014 - Thursday, 27 November 2014

Events at Gresham College in November:
 

Human Rights: The Law

Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, Gresham Professor of Law

Wednesday, 5 November 2014, 6pm

Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH

 

Big Data in the UK Biobank: Opportunities and Challenges

Sir Rory Collins, University of Oxford

Thursday, 6 November 2014, 6pm

Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH

 

Liberalism, Autonomy and Rights (Lecture 1)

Professor the Lord Plant of Highfield, Gresham Professor of Divinity

Tuesday, 11 November 2014, 1pm

Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH

 

The General Election, 1959

Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE, Visiting Gresham Professor of Political History

Tuesday, 11 November 2014, 6pm

Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN

 

Making History Online

Professors Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker

Wednesday, 12 November 2014, 6pm

Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN

 

Mother Green Tree Frog and Her Children

Professor James Grayson, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield

Thursday, 13 November 2014, 1pm

Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH

 

100 Essential Things You Didn't Know About Maths and the Arts

Professor John D Barrow FRS, University of Cambridge

Thursday, 13 November 2014, 6pm

Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH

 

Euler's Exponentials

Professor Raymond Flood, Gresham Professor of Geometry

Tuesday, 18 November 2014, 1pm

Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN

 

The Military History of the First World War: An Overview and Analysis

Professor David Stevenson, Professor of International History, LSE

Tuesday, 18 November 2014, 6pm

Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN

 

Heart Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects - Science or Art?

Professor Martin Elliott, Gresham Professor of Physic

Wednesday, 19 November 2014, 6pm

Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN

 

Being a Guitarist in the Time of Byron and Shelley

Professor Christopher Page, Gresham Professor of Music

Thursday, 20 November 2014, 1pm

St. Sepulchre Without Newgate, EC1A 2DQ

 

Liberalism, Autonomy and Rights (Lecture 2)

Professor the Lord Plant of Highfield, Gresham Professor of Divinity

Tuesday, 25 November 2014, 1pm

Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH

 

The Novel & Political History: Stendhal's Le rouge et le noir

Professor Belinda Jack, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric

Tuesday, 25 November 2014, 6pm

Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN

 

The Transient Universe

Professor Carolin Crawford, Gresham Professor of Astronomy

Wednesday, 26 November 2014, 1pm

Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN

 

Health and the Seven Ages of Man:

Serious ill health in the very old and the very young

Professor Chris Whitty, Visiting Gresham Professor of Public Health

Wednesday, 26 November 2014, 6pm

Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN

 

The Great Depression and its Legacy

Professor Jagjit Chadha, Gresham Professor of Commerce

Thursday, 27 November 2014, 6pm

Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH

 

Booking for events further ahead

Reservations are now being taken for the few lectures that require booking throughout the academic year. Amongst these lectures is the 2015 Gresham Special Lecture:

   Women's Careers: Getting to the top and what role men can play in making this possible

   by Dame Barbara Stocking DBE

   Tuesday 2nd June 2015, 6pm, Guildhall, London

Please book early in order to avoid disappointment.

For more information on all the above events, visit the website: www.gresham.ac.uk

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