Gresham College: FREE public talks

events

Wednesday, 12 September 2012 - Thursday, 27 September 2012
All of the free public lectures and events for 2012/13 are now live on the website. Please do look ahead to the many interesting lectures coming up, including the following events in September.

International Criminal Tribunals: Experiments? Works in Progress?
Institutions that are here for good, or maybe not?
Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC
Wednesday 12 September 2012, 1pm
Barnard's Inn Hall

The Greatest Ever Economic Change
Professor Douglas McWilliams
Thursday 13 September 2012, 7pm
Royal College Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields

In Mahler's Footsteps: Mahler's Relationship with the Natural World
Keith James Clarke
Wednesday 19 September 2012, 6pm
Barnard's Inn Hall

Ghosts of Departed Quantities: Calculus and its Limits
Professor Raymond Flood
Tuesday 25 September 2012, 1pm
Museum of London

The Great Plagues: The Black Death
Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA
Tuesday 25 September 2012, 6pm
Museum of London

Anatomy Museums: Past, Present and Future
Professor William Ayliffe FRCS
Wednesday 26 September 2012, 6pm
Pathology Museum, St. Batholomew's Hospital

The Sir Thomas Gresham Docklands Lecture
Thursday 27 September 2012, 7pm
Four Seasons Hotel, Docklands
Reservations Required
 
There is also an online archive of over 1,300 lectures, many of which are available to watch online or download.  Many recent lectures over the summer are available, including the following:
    Re-setting the Human Compass: The Use and Value of the Arts by Sir Andrew Motion
    Parliament and Public: Strangers or Friends by The Rt Hon John Bercow MP
    The Lost World of 1962 by Dominic Sandbrook

For more information please visit : www.gresham.ac.uk


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