Lecture Series
If 122 free public lectures are a lot for you to sift through, an easier way to see what is on offer might be look at the lecture series offered by the Gresham Professors
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/future
Here's a quick sample of those coming up next:
A Cosmic Perspective: Four Centuries of Expanding Horizons
Professor Lord Rees of Ludlow FRS
Royal College of Surgeons
Tuesday, 25 August 2015 - 6:00pm
The 'curious and ingenious' men who met at Gresham College and founded the Royal Society were fascinated by the Sun and Planets; the '...
Astronomy, Physics, Science - other, Science
Public Interest versus Private Profits
Mark Hoban
Royal College of Surgeons
Thursday, 17 September 2015 - 6:00pm
The conventional model of risk transfer and sharing is being challenged. The traditional boundaries between the roles of the state, the...
Finance, Financial regulation, City business, Business
The National Health Service Crisis, 1951
Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE
Museum of London
Tuesday, 22 September 2015 - 6:00pm
The NHS had been established by the post-war Labour government in 1948. By 1951, there were already heavy pressures on health spending....
Government, British politics, Politics - other, Politics
The Primeval Fireball
Professor Joseph Silk
Museum of London
Wednesday, 23 September 2015 - 1:00pm
The universe underwent an inflationary period of expansion. From an extremely hot beginning, it cooled down then reheated to form the...
Astronomy, Science
1665: London's Last Great Plague
Professor Vanessa Harding
Museum of London
Wednesday, 30 September 2015 - 6:00pm
350 years ago, London experienced a devastating outbreak of plague. Some 70,000 people died and the capital's social and economic life...
Disease history, Heritage, London history, Medieval history, History - other, History
The Cost of Business Cycles
Professor Jagjit Chadha
Barnard’s Inn Hall
Thursday, 1 October 2015 - 6:00pm
How much would you pay to avoid a recession? In other words, can we place a price on the economic costs of business cycle fluctuations?...
Finance, Business - other, Business
Artefacts and the Study of Life in Roman London
Michael Marshall
Museum of London
Monday, 5 October 2015 - 1:00pm
From jewellery and domestic utensils to weaponry and religious objects, artefacts provide a vivid connection to London's Roman past...
Archaeology, European history, Heritage, London history, History - other, History
Gaza-Israel: The Legal and the Military View
Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC
Barnard’s Inn Hall
Wednesday, 7 October 2015 - 6:00pm
‘War Crimes’ – do we use the term too casually? Commentators have usually assumed the Israel-Palestine armed conflict...
International law, Law - other, Law
Medieval Music: The Stations of the Breath
Professor Christopher Page
St. Sepulchre Without Newgate
Thursday, 8 October 2015 - 1:00pm
At the heart of virtually all the medieval music that survives, is the human voice. This is an ancient heritage. The early Christians...
Musical performances, Music - other, Music
Mass Burials from St Mary Spital, London
Don Walker
Museum of London
Monday, 12 October 2015 - 1:00pm
The excavation of St Mary Spital in East London uncovered a large number of emergency mass burial pits. Dating places the burials in the...
Archaeology, European history, Heritage, London history, History - other, History
From Wonder to Understanding: Beginning a Journey
Professor Alister McGrath
Barnard’s Inn Hall
Tuesday, 13 October 2015 - 1:00pm
This lecture will consider the place of evidence in science and religion, looking particularly at some of the debates about the...
Philosophy of religion, Religion - other, Religion
Poetry and Exile: T. S. Eliot, 'Four Quartets'
Professor Belinda Jack
Museum of London
Tuesday, 13 October 2015 - 6:00pm
These poems retain a stubborn opacity and no interpretation is ever wholly satisfactory. The difficulty of Eliot's poetry is partly a...
Art and literature, Theatre, Literature
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Formula 1 and its Contributions to Healthcare
Professor Martin Elliott
Museum of London
Wednesday, 14 October 2015 - 6:00pm
At first sight, there is little relationship between the high tech, high cost, high speed and highly competitive world of F1 and heart...
The Heart, Health, Medical science, Medical science - other
A Body in the River: The Application of Environmental Science in Murder Investigations
Professor Carolyn Roberts
Barnard’s Inn Hall
Thursday, 15 October 2015 - 6:00pm
The bodies of murder victims, whole or in pieces, often end up in rivers or canals. Carolyn Roberts' work as an Expert Witness with UK...
Environment, Science - other, Policing, Very unusual, Science, Unusual
Ritual Protection Marks and Witchcraft at Knole, Kent
James Wright
Museum of London
Monday, 19 October 2015 - 1:00pm
An historic building survey at Knole, Kent enabled a very surprising revelation about the history of the house in the early 17th century...
Archaeology, European history, Heritage, London history, History - other, History
Einstein's Annus Mirabilis, 1905
Professor Raymond Flood
Museum of London
Tuesday, 20 October 2015 - 1:00pm
In 1905, his 'year of wonders', Einstein published four papers of ground-breaking importance. First he published the work that...
History of mathematics, Physics, Mathematics - other, Mathematics, Science
Should We Trust Computers?
Professor Martyn Thomas CBE
Museum of London
Tuesday, 20 October 2015 - 6:00pm
Computers and software have transformed the world in 67 years and the pace of change is still accelerating. The achievements have been...
Information Technology, Science
Agincourt or Azincourt? Victory, Defeat, and the War of 1415
Dr Helen Castor
Museum of London
Thursday, 22 October 2015 - 6:00pm
In the year of the battle's 600th anniversary, Agincourt remains one of the most resonant names in the roll-call of English military...
Colonial history, European history, Heritage, Medieval history, Military history, History - other, History
The Archaeology of Disease Documented in Skeletons
Professor Charlotte Roberts
Museum of London
Monday, 26 October 2015 - 1:00pm
Disease affects us all during our lives. This lecture will show how archaeological skeletons can inform our understanding of people's...
Disease history, Archaeology, European history, Heritage, London history, History - other, History
The 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review and its Implications
The Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen
Mercer's Hall
Tuesday, 27 October 2015 - 6:00pm
THE PETER NAILOR MEMORIAL LECTURE ON DEFENCE
Lord Robertson, former UK Defence Secretary and Secretary General of NATO, will...
British politics, Politics - other, Policing, Very unusual, Politics, Unusual
Free Speech and the Study of History
Timothy Garton Ash
Museum of London
Wednesday, 28 October 2015 - 6:00pm
A growing number of countries have so-called memory laws, ranging from the criminalisation of Holocaust...
Constitutional law, International law, Regulation, Law - other, Law
Women in Mathematics: The Bicentenary of Ada Lovelace
Professor Ursula Martin
Barnard’s Inn Hall
Thursday, 29 October 2015 - 4:00pm
GRESHAM COLLEGE WITH THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS
The afternoon will contribute to the appreciation of Ada...
History of mathematics, Everyday mathematics, Computational mathematics, Mathematics - other, Mathematics
The King in the Car Park: The Discovery and Identification of Richard III
Professor Kevin Schurer
Museum of London
Tuesday, 3 November 2015 - 6:00pm
This lecture will focus on discussion of the archaeological dig, how this progressed, and the archaeological evidence for the remains...
Archaeology, European history, Heritage, London history, Medieval history, History - other, History
The First Stars
Professor Joseph Silk
Museum of London
Wednesday, 4 November 2015 - 1:00pm
Eddington once famously said that a physicist on a cloud-bound planet could predict that there are stars. The first series of lectures...
Astronomy, Science
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Does The Citizen Have The Right To Protest On The High Seas?
Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC
Barnard’s Inn Hall
Wednesday, 4 November 2015 - 6:00pm
The MV Mavi Marmara was one of several vessels loaded with humanitarian aid that attempted to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza in 2010...
Constitutional law, International law, Law - other, Law
How we Learned that Slavery is Wrong
Professor Alec Ryrie
Barnard’s Inn Hall
Thursday, 5 November 2015 - 1:00pm
It seems obvious now, but it hasn’t always. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the old consensus that slavery was a mere...
History of religion, Religion - other, Religion
The Suez Crisis, 1956
Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE
Museum of London
Tuesday, 10 November 2015 - 6:00pm
In 1956, Egypt’s President Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal Company. In response, Britain, together with France and Israel,...
Government, British politics, Politics - other, Politics
Keeping the Heart Young in an Old Body
Professor Chris Whitty
Barnard’s Inn Hall
Wednesday, 11 November 2015 - 6:00pm
The heart was the organ that, until recently, aged fastest in wealthier societies, with death and disability from heart disease common...
The Heart, Health, Medical science, Medical science - other
Medieval Music: Chant as Cure And Miracle
Professor Christopher Page
St. Sepulchre Without Newgate
Thursday, 12 November 2015 - 1:00pm
As the monks were singing in a French abbey of the twelfth century, a cripple, who had crawled into the church suddenly, began to cry...
Musical performances, Musical interpretation, Music - other, Music
The Next Big UK Flood: Britain Under Water
Professor Carolyn Roberts
Barnard’s Inn Hall
Thursday, 12 November 2015 - 6:00pm
What are the odds that events will conspire to put London under water during the next few years? Are the catastrophic Summer 2007 floods...
Climate change, Environment, Science - other, Science, Unusual
Hamilton, Boole and their Algebras
Professor Raymond Flood
Museum of London
Tuesday, 17 November 2015 - 1:00pm
William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) revolutionized algebra with his discovery of quaternions, a non-commutative algebraic system, as well...
History of mathematics, Mathematics - other, Mathematics
Poetry and Co-dependency: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath
Professor Belinda Jack
Museum of London
Tuesday, 17 November 2015 - 6:00pm
Readers and critics have been exploring Plath's work for half a century. Is there anything new to be said? The publication of Plath...
Art and literature, Theatre, Literature
Envy of Kings: The Guildhall of London and the Power of the Medieval Corporation
Dr Simon Thurley
Museum of London
Wednesday, 18 November 2015 - 6:00pm
The government of the City of London is older than parliament itself and its Guildhall is a rival to the Palace of Westminster. This...
Architecture, Art and literature, European history, Heritage, History - other, History
Faith, Proof, and Evidence: What’s right to think?
Professor Alister McGrath
Barnard’s Inn Hall
Tuesday, 24 November 2015 - 1:00pm
There are competing philosophical views of reality. Main contenders are: common sense, reductive materialism, radical empiricism, and...
History of religion, Philosophy of religion, Religion - other, Religion
Was Einstein Right?
Professor Nils Andersson
Museum of London
Tuesday, 24 November 2015 - 6:00pm
One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein completed his General Theory of Relativity. He made space and time flexible and explained gravity...
Astronomy, Physics, Science - other, Science
Aviation and its Contributions to Healthcare
Professor Martin Elliott
Museum of London
Wednesday, 25 November 2015 - 6:00pm
There are surprising similarities between the aviation (and especially airline) industries and healthcare; especially cardiac surgery....
The Heart, Health, Medical science, Medical science - other
Future lectures
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Does The Citizen Have The Right To Protest On The High Seas?
Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC
Barnard’s Inn Hall
Wednesday, 4 November 2015 - 6:00pm
The MV Mavi Marmara was one of several vessels loaded with humanitarian aid that attempted to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza in 2010...
Constitutional law, International law, Law - other, Law
How we Learned that Slavery is Wrong
Professor Alec Ryrie
Barnard’s Inn Hall
Thursday, 5 November 2015 - 1:00pm
It seems obvious now, but it hasn’t always. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the old consensus that slavery was a mere...
History of religion, Religion - other, Religion
The Suez Crisis, 1956
Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE
Museum of London
Tuesday, 10 November 2015 - 6:00pm
In 1956, Egypt’s President Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal Company. In response, Britain, together with France and Israel,...
Government, British politics, Politics - other, Politics
Keeping the Heart Young in an Old Body
Professor Chris Whitty
Barnard’s Inn Hall
Wednesday, 11 November 2015 - 6:00pm
The heart was the organ that, until recently, aged fastest in wealthier societies, with death and disability from heart disease common...
The Heart, Health, Medical science, Medical science - other
Medieval Music: Chant as Cure And Miracle
Professor Christopher Page
St. Sepulchre Without Newgate
Thursday, 12 November 2015 - 1:00pm
As the monks were singing in a French abbey of the twelfth century, a cripple, who had crawled into the church suddenly, began to cry...
Musical performances, Musical interpretation, Music - other, Music
The Next Big UK Flood: Britain Under Water
Professor Carolyn Roberts
Barnard’s Inn Hall
Thursday, 12 November 2015 - 6:00pm
What are the odds that events will conspire to put London under water during the next few years? Are the catastrophic Summer 2007 floods...
Climate change, Environment, Science - other, Science, Unusual
Hamilton, Boole and their Algebras
Professor Raymond Flood
Museum of London
Tuesday, 17 November 2015 - 1:00pm
William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) revolutionized algebra with his discovery of quaternions, a non-commutative algebraic system, as well...
History of mathematics, Mathematics - other, Mathematics
Poetry and Co-dependency: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath
Professor Belinda Jack
Museum of London
Tuesday, 17 November 2015 - 6:00pm
Readers and critics have been exploring Plath's work for half a century. Is there anything new to be said? The publication of Plath...
Art and literature, Theatre, Literature
Envy of Kings: The Guildhall of London and the Power of the Medieval Corporation
Dr Simon Thurley
Museum of London
Wednesday, 18 November 2015 - 6:00pm
The government of the City of London is older than parliament itself and its Guildhall is a rival to the Palace of Westminster. This...
Architecture, Art and literature, European history, Heritage, History - other, History
Faith, Proof, and Evidence: What’s right to think?
Professor Alister McGrath
Barnard’s Inn Hall
Tuesday, 24 November 2015 - 1:00pm
There are competing philosophical views of reality. Main contenders are: common sense, reductive materialism, radical empiricism, and...
History of religion, Philosophy of religion, Religion - other, Religion
Was Einstein Right?
Professor Nils Andersson
Museum of London
Tuesday, 24 November 2015 - 6:00pm
One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein completed his General Theory of Relativity. He made space and time flexible and explained gravity...
Astronomy, Physics, Science - other, Science
Aviation and its Contributions to Healthcare
Professor Martin Elliott
Museum of London
Wednesday, 25 November 2015 - 6:00pm
There are surprising similarities between the aviation (and especially airline) industries and healthcare; especially cardiac surgery....
The Heart, Health, Medical science, Medical science - other
There are a large number more on the Gresham College website: