You are invited to the following Gresham College events in October:
The Costs of Business Cycles
Professor Jagjit Chadha
Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH
Thursday, 1 October 2015, 6pm
Artefacts and the Study of Life in Roman London
Michael Marshall
Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN
Monday, 5 October 2015, 1pm
Gaza-Israel: The Legal and the Military View
Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC
Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH
Wednesday, 7 October 2015, 6pm
Medieval Music: The Stations of the Breath
Professor Christopher Page
St. Sepulchre Without Newgate, EC1A 2DQ
Thursday, 8 October 2015, 1pm
Mass Burials from St Mary Spital, London
Don Walker
Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN
Monday, 12 October 2015, 1pm
From Wonder to Understanding: Beginning a Journey
Professor Alister McGrath
Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH
Tuesday, 13 October 2015, 1pm
Poetry and Exile: T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Professor Belinda Jack
Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN
Tuesday, 13 October 2015, 6pm
Formula 1 and its Contributions to Healthcare
Professor Martin Elliott
Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN
Wednesday, 14 October 2015, 6pm
A Body in the River:
The Application of Environmental Science in Murder Investigations
Professor Carolyn Roberts
Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH
Thursday, 15 October 2015, 6pm
Ritual Protection Marks and Witchcraft
James Wright
Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN
Monday, 19 October 2015, 1pm
Einstein's Annus Mirabilis, 1905
Professor Raymond Flood
Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN
Tuesday, 20 October 2015, 1pm
Should We Trust Computers?
Professor Martyn Thomas CBE
Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN
Tuesday, 20 October 2015, 6pm
Agincourt or Azincourt? Victory, Defeat, and the War of 1415
Dr Helen Castor
Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN
Thursday, 22 October 2015, 6pm
The Archaeology of Disease Documented in Skeletons
Professor Charlotte Roberts
Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN
Monday, 26 October 2015, 1pm
Free Speech and the Study of History
Timothy Garton Ash
Museum of London, EC2Y 5HN
Wednesday, 28 October 2015, 6pm
Further information on all lecture can be found here.
Some events require advance booking and can become fully booked. Future events that require booking can be accessed here.
Even further ahead is the THE GRESHAM SPECIAL LECTURE 2016
Universities: Some Policy Dilemmas
Thursday, 9 June 2016 - 6:00pm
Guildhall
What kind of system of higher education do we need? How should it relate to secondary schools and other forms of post school education and training? How shall we pay for it? What kind of international role should universities have? And how should they contribute to the public realm?
Tessa Blackstone headed Birkbeck from 1987 until her appointment to the Labour government, serving as Minister of Education 1997-2001. She became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich in 2004, is Chair of the British Library, and a Labour life Peer in the House of Lords.
Click HERE to book your place.