Luther, Lenin, Trump, and the meaning of life

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Wednesday, 1 November 2017 - Thursday, 30 November 2017

FREE lectures from Gresham College

This November, Gresham Professor of Physic Martin Elliott marks the 50th anniversary of one of medicine’s most astonishing achievements, the heart transplant.

Catherine Merridale takes us back to 1917 with Lenin and the Russian Revolution, Lyndal Roper discusses the passions of Martin Luther, 500 years after Luther's crusade against the Pope, and Vernon Bogdanor explores America’s political landscape one year on from the US Presidential Election.

Carolyn Roberts asks if organic food is rooted in lies, Alister McGrath explains how sky-watchers of the ancient world considered the meaning of life, and Christopher Budd takes us out of this world with Maths Goes into Space. 

If you can't attend lectures in person you can now watch them live online via Facebook - just use the links below to access the live-stream on the day.

All lectures will also be recorded for the website and YouTube channel

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1 Nov English Landscape: Constable and Clare 1pm Museum of London
Professor Malcolm Andrews, University of Kent
1 Nov Martin Luther and his Crusade Against the Pope 6pm Museum of London
Professor Lyndal Roper, Oriel College Oxford 
7 Nov The 2016 US Presidential Election - One Year On 6pm Museum of London
Vernon Bogdanor, Visiting Professor of Political History
8 Nov English Landscape: Samuel Palmer and the Pastoral 1pm Museum of London
Professor Malcolm Andrews, University of Kent
8 Nov Lenin and the Russian Revolution 6pm Museum of London
Professor Catherine Merridale FBA
9 Nov Mobilising Savings for Investment 1pm Barnard's Inn Hall
Jagjit Chadha, Gresham Professor of Commerce
9 Nov Organic Food: Rooted in Lies? 6pm Barnard's Inn Hall
Carolyn Roberts, Jackson Professor of the Environment
14 Nov Maths Goes into Space 1pm Museum of London
Christopher Budd, Gresham Professor of Geometry
15 Nov Buying, Selling and Owning Guitars in Elizabethan England 1pm St Sepulchres, Holborn Viaduct
Christopher Page, Gresham Professor of Music
15 Nov Diabetes: A Rising Tide 6pm Musum of London
Christopher Witty, Visiting Professor of Public Health
20 Nov China: New Nation, New Art, 1911-1932 1pm Museum of London - Part of the Being Human Festival 2017
Craig Clunas, Visiting Professor of Chinese Art
21 Nov Watching the Heavens: Astronomy and the Meaning of Life 1pm Museum of London - Part of the Being Human Festival 2017
Alister McGrath, Gresham Professor of Divinity
22 Nov A Global History of Sexual Violence 6pm Museum of London
Joanna Bourke, Visiting Professor of History
23 Nov Homer's Iliad via the Movie Troy (2004) 1pm Barnard's Inn Hall
Edith Hall, Visiting Professor of Classics
29 Nov Shakespeare's Heroes 6pm Museum of London
Sir Jonathan Bate, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric
29 Nov Half a Century of Heart Transplantation 6pm Museum of London
Martin Elliott, Gresham Professor of Physic
30 Nov What Do Judges Do in the Family Court? 6pm Barnard's Inn Hall
Jo Delahunty QC, Gresham Professor of Law

 

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