Past Lectures
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INSIGHTS Public Lecture: The long march to women and children’s rights – Coram and the Foundling Hospital by Dr Carol Homden
Date
Time
Location
6 March 2025
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
What on earth can we do about climate change? by Dr Matt Winning
Dr Matt Winning, climate comedian and environmental researcher
Date
Time
Location
25 February 2025
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Could bees have emotions? By Dr Vivek Nityananda
Date
Time
Location
20 February 2025
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Making connections for a nature- and people-positive world by Professor Anusha Shah
Professor Anusha Shah, Immediate Past President, Institution of Civil Engineers
Date
Time
Location
18 February 2025
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Defending the UK in unprecedented times by General Sir Patrick Sanders
General Sir Patrick Sanders KCB CBE DSO, former Chief of the General Staff
Date
Time
Location
13 February 2025
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
The Power of Poetry By Joseph Coelho
By Joseph Coelho, poet and author
Date
Time
Location
4 February 2025
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
John H Holmes Memorial Lectures for 10- to 14-year olds: Engineering for a better world: Clean water for all
Date/Time
Location
Wednesday 22 January, 5.00 - 6.00pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
John H Holmes Memorial Lectures for 10- to 14-year olds: How engineering shapes our world
Date/Time
Location
Wednesday 15 January, 5.00 - 6.00pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Sounding the Angel: Recording the grassroots memorial site at the Angel of the North by Professor Anne Whitehead and David de la Haye
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Location
Tuesday 3 December 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: When healthcare harms: Why inclusive treatment of disabled people can avoid health inequities by Professor Tom Shakespeare
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 28 November 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: A multi-sensory journey to a black hole: Using sound to enhance data exploration, accessibility, and immersive education by Dr Chris Harrison
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Location
Thursday 21 November 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Jack Jeffery Sustainability Lecture: What a load of rubbish! Bins, behaviours and the circular economy by Dr Helen Holmes
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Location
Tuesday 12 November 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: The 2024 United States Presidential Election by Emeritus Professor Iwan Morgan
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 7 November 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
SANT Lecture: The extramural settlements and bathhouse at Birdoswald by Tony Willmott and Professor Ian Haynes
Date/Time
Location
Wednesday 30 October 2024, 6.00-7.00pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Memorial dissonances: Undoing the Valley of Cuelgamuros in contemporary Spain by Francisco Ferrándiz
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 24 October 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: New voices on arts, humanities and social sciences
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 22 October 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Molds, mushrooms and medicines by Professor Nicholas P Money
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 15 October 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Black History Month Lecture: From black squares to full circles: Did the 2020 scramble for Black writers make a difference? by Patrice Lawrence
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 10 October 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Election 2024: A very British revolution by Peter Kellner
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 8 October 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
The Russia-Ukraine War: The future of conflict, or the past? by Professor Mark Galeotti
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 16 May 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Three tales from the frontier of medical sciences research with Doyin Alao, James Allison and Laura Booth
Doyin Alao, James Allison and Laura Booth
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 14 May 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Robinson Prize Lecture in Cosmology: Dark matter through the looking glass of Homo Narrans by Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 9 May 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
The theatre in the public conversation by Michael Billington
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 30 April 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
British Academy Lecture: The sign language myth by Professor Annelies Kusters
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 25 April 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Jacobson Lecture: The NHS of the future and how we get there by Amanda Pritchard
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 21 March 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Author Event: In conversation with Alice Loxton - in association with Blackwell's
Date/Time
Location
Monday 18 March 2024, 6.00 - 7.00pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
British Science Week Lecture: Chiral molecular materials and changing the world by Dr Jess Wade
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 12 March 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Riddell Lectures: From AI to social media: Natural psychological reactions as a guide to tech-prudence by Justin L Barrett (Lecture 2)
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 7 March 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Riddell Lectures: What makes cultural innovations attractive? Lessons from the cognitive science of religion by Justin L Barrett (Lecture 1)
Date/Time
Location
Wednesday 6 March 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Sophia Lecture: General Election 2024: Is change really possible? by Pippa Crerar
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 29 February 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
LGBTQ+ History Month Lecture: Collecting, archiving and celebrating LGBTQIA+ and alternative sexualities: The adventures of an archivist by Stef Dickers
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 20 February 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Science sans frontiers by Sir Keith Burnett
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 13 February 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Darwin Day Lecture: Why your DNA is not your destiny by Professor Jelena Mann
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 8 February 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Defence Lecture: Can we manage a very dangerous world? by The Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 1 February 2024, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
John H Holmes Memorial Lectures for 10- to 14-Year-Olds: Humans vs artificial intelligence (Part 2)
Date/Time
Location
Wednesday 24 January 2024, 5.00pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
John H Holmes Memorial Lectures for 10- to 14-Year-Olds: Humans vs artificial intelligence (Lecture 1)
Date/Time
Location
Wednesday 17 January 2024, 5.00pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: First responder memories of the 1988 Lockerbie Disaster by Dr Andy Clark and Dr Colin Atkinson
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 7 December 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: New voices on science, agriculture and engineering
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 5 December 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Didn’t you use to be Chris Mullin? Diaries 2010-2022 by Chris Mullin
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 28 November 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: How the end of empire upended the Union by Professor Stuart Ward
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 14 November 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Everything you need to know about the menopause (but were too afraid to ask) by Kate Muir
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 9 November 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: We have heard the chimes at midnight: Verdi, Falstaff and time by Dr Martin Pickard
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 2 November 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne Lecture: The way, the word, and the water: The archaeology of 17th century Newcastle by Dr Pam Graves
Date/Time
Location
Wednesday 25 October 2023, 6.00pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Green energy materials in 3D: Crystal gazing on the atomic scale by Professor Saiful Islam
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 24 October 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
British Academy Lecture: One is not born, but becomes, a genius: Another Simone de Beauvoir by Dr Kate Kirkpatrick
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 17 October 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Writing with your feet: Women who walk as an exercise in memory and writing by Dr Andrea Jeftanovic
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 12 October 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: The history of the NHS - and its future by Dr Andrew Seaton
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 5 October 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Virtual Lecture: Barbara Strang Lecture: Our resilient English language by Professor Kate Burridge
This is an online lecture
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 18 May 2023, 5.30pm
Online Lecture
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: War in Europe: the invasion of Ukraine one year on (Panel Discussion)
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 16 May 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: AI and data science: Opportunities and threats by Professor Paul Watson
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 4 May 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Virtual You: How building your digital twin will revolutionise medicine and change your life by Roger Highfield
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 27 April 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
*New Date* INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Punching above our weight? How Britain broke the world by Arthur Snell
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 25 April 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
*New Date* LGBT+ History Month Lecture: Variations: Writing trans memoir, fiction and journalism by Juliet Jacques
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 30 March 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Can Humanity Survive the Anthropocene? It depends on who we think we are by Professor Graham Parkes
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 23 March 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Measuring Mount Everest’s weather by Dr Tom Matthews
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 14 March 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Breaking down the barriers in the treatment of cardiovascular disease by Professor Vijay Kunadian
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 28 February 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Defence Lecture: Are women better leaders than men, does diversity matter in military operations? by Major General Kristin Lund
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 7 February 2023, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Holmes Lectures for 10- to 14-year-olds: Keeping healthy with sport and food (Part 2)
Date/Time
Location
Wednesday 25 January 2023, 5.00pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Holmes Lectures for 10- to 14-year-olds: Keeping healthy with sport and food (Part 1)
Date/Time
Location
Wednesday 18 January 2023, 5.00pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Lecture to mark 40 years of cancer research at Newcastle University: Down the rabbit hole: Adventures in children’s cancer research by Professor Steve Clifford
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 1 December 2022, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Three tales from the frontier of medical sciences research
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 15 November 2022, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Russia’s War on Ukraine: How history can counter myths and disinformation by Dr Robert Dale
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 10 November 2022, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Hadrian’s Wall – what’s the big deal?
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 8 November 2022, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
The emerging role of whistle-blowers in democracies by Robert Tibbo
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 1 November 2022, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
SANT Lecture: Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard by Dr Martin Goldberg
Date/Time
Location
Wednesday 26 October 2022, note: 6.00pm start
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Celebrating 30 years of the Centre for Rural Economy: Trade policy and environmental sustainability by Professor Alan Matthews
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 20 October 2022, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
A lifetime in Spanish fiction by Eduardo Mendoza
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Location
Tuesday 18 October 2022, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Lecture to mark World Anatomy Day: Anatomy anatomised by Professor Susan Standring
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 13 October 2022, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Jack Jeffery Lecture: People powered: what if people, not technology, are the answer to the climate crisis? by Dr Katy Roelich
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 11 October 2022, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
The Partition of India 75 years on: An interconnected history by Professor Sarah Ansari
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 6 October 2022, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: The Monarchy and the UK’s evolving constitution by Dr Catherine Haddon
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 19 May 2022, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Levelling up – national mission and global challenge by The Rt Hon Justine Greening
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 17 May 2022, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: New voices on science, agriculture and engineering
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 12 May 2022, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Edward Heath Lecture: What has happened to the world order that Edward Heath helped to create? by Lord Patten
Date/Time
Location
Wednesday 4 May 2022, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: The state of our Universe by Professor Edmund Copeland
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 26 April 2022, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
INSIGHTS Virtual Lecture: Who runs your University? by Dr John Hogan
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 24 March 2022, 5.30pm
This is an online event
Tyneside Geographical Society Lecture: Pocketbooks, cairns and carrier pigeons: polar postal systems by Nancy Campbell
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 17 March 2022, 5.30pm
This is an online event
Tyneside Geographical Society Lecture: Pocketbooks, cairns and carrier pigeons: polar postal systems by Nancy Campbell
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 17 March 2022, 5.30pm
This is an online event
Lecture presented in association with Blackwells to mark British Science Week: The Joy of Science by Jim Al-Khalili
Date/Time
Location
Monday 14 March 2022, 5.30pm
This is an online event
INSIGHTS Virtual Lecture: Shakespeare as a sound artist by Bruce R. Smith
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 10 March 2022, 5.30pm
This is an online event
Sophia Lecture: The role of place in recovering from the crisis: what have universities got to do it with it? by Dame Julia Unwin
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 8 March 2022, 5.30pm
This is an online event
British Academy Lecture: For a reparatory social science by Professor Gurminder K Bhambra
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Location
*NEW DATE* Thursday 3 March 2022, 5.30pm
This is an online event
LGBTQ+ History Month Lecture: Saving Our Transcestry by E-J Scott
Date/Time
Location
*NEW DATE* Thursday 24 February 2022, 5.30pm
This is an online event
INSIGHTS Virtual Lecture: Neuroblastoma: A master of disguise and a challenge to cure by Professor Deborah Tweddle
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Location
Tuesday 22 February 2022, 5.30pm
This is an online event
Darwin Day Lecture with the North East Humanists: The handshake: a gripping history... and a biological one by Ella Al-Shamahi
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Location
Thursday 10 February 2022, 5.30pm
This is an online event
Beauty at the beginning of life by Professor Mary Herbert
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Location
Tuesday 7 December 2021, 5.30pm
This is an online event
New Conservatives? The Conservative Party after Brexit by Neil Carmichael
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Location
Thursday 2 December 2021, 5.30pm
This is an online event
Perspectives and understandings of ‘good farming’ by Dr Amy Proctor
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Location
Tuesday 30 November 2021, 5.30pm
This is an online event
New voices on arts, humanities and social sciences
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 25 November 2021, 5.30pm
This is an online event
Climate change and global corporations: Five sources of responsibility failure by Dr Cristina Neesham
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Location
Tuesday 23 November 2021, 5.30pm
This is an online event
Jacobson Lecture: Leading the fight against virus spread: the Integrated Covid Hub North East by Dr Akhtar Husain
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 16 November 2021, 5.30pm
This is an online event
How to make the world add up by Tim Harford
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Location
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 5.30pm
This is an online event
Putting disadvantaged children at the heart of recovery by Anne Longfield OBE
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Location
Thursday 4 November 2021, 5.30pm
This is an online event
Revolting: The political significance of punk around the globe by Professor Kevin C Dunn
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Location
Tuesday 2 November 2021, 5.30pm
This is an online event
Do we need the fossil fuel industry to help in the transition towards net zero?
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Location
Thursday 28 October 2021, 5.30pm
This is an online event
Rethinking the future of housing worldwide: Favelas as a sustainable model? by Dr Theresa Williamson
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Location
Tuesday 26 October 2021, 5.30pm
This is an online event
Black History Month Lecture: Warm words are not enough – repaying the debt to our Black heroes by Marcus Ryder
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 21 October 2021, 5.30pm
This is an online event
In conversation with Darren Henley, Chief Executive of Arts Council England
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Location
Tuesday 19 October 2021, 5.30pm
This is an online event
Women, men and money in Britain by Professor Emma Griffin
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 14 October 2021, 5.30pm
This is an online event
Britain after the Pandemic by John Rentoul
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 12 October 2021, 5.30pm
This is an online event
Inaugural Barbara Strang Lecture: Accent prejudice: #us an’ all? by Professor Joan Beal
This is an online event
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 20 May 2021, 5.30pm
Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate crime – why is it rising and what can be done? by Iman Atta
This is an online event
Date/Time
Location
*NEW DATE* Tuesday 18 May 2021, 5.30pm
Jacobson Lecture: Long-Covid: What will be the legacy from the pandemic? by Professor Chris Brightling
This is an online event
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 13 May 2021, 5.30pm
From All Writers Matter to Zadie Smith (via Badgers) – a speedy A to Z of being a Black British children’s writer in a publishing industry still working on diversity by Patrice Lawrence
This is an online event
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Location
Tuesday 11 May 2021, 5.30pm
Brexit and Agriculture: What’s next for British farmers? by Dr Carmen Hubbard
This is an online event
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 6 May 2021, 5.30pm
Tyneside Geographical Society Lecture: Why geographers need to stand up for the planet by Zion Lights
This is an online event
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 27 April 2021, 5.30pm
Tales from the biomedical frontier
This is an online event
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 25 March 2021, 5.30pm
Britain and Europe: An unsettled history by Professor Helen Parr
This is an online event
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Location
Tuesday 23 March 2021, 5.30pm
Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate crime – why is it rising and what can be done? by Iman Atta
This is an online event
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 18 March 2021, 5.30pm
Age of the techno-scene: Why we will need the arts and humanities to tame the tiger of the ‘4th Industrial Revolution’ and artificial intelligence by Professor Andrew Thompson
This is an online event
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Location
*NEW DATE* Tuesday 16 March 2021, 5.30pm
What’s the Story? The job of directing character-led action films by Marc Jobst
This is an online event
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Location
Thursday 11 March 2021, 5.30pm
Fickling Lecture on Developments in Children’s Literature: What is life? by Sir Paul Nurse
This is an online event
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 9 March 2021, 5.30pm
Stuck: How vaccine rumours start and why they don’t go away by Professor Heidi J Larson
This is an online event
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Location
Thursday 4 March 2021, 5.30pm
Child poverty in the North East region by Jonathan Bradshaw
This is an online event
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Location
Tuesday 2 March 2021, 5.30pm
The Corona crash: How the pandemic will change capitalism by Grace Blakeley
This is an online event
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 18 February 2021, 5.30pm
Defence Lecture: Why do we fight? Evolutionary neuroscience meets conflict studies by Dr Mike Martin
This is an online event
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 16 February 2021, Note: 6.30pm start
LGBT+ History Month Lecture: Is the gay novel dead? by Paul Burston
This is an online event
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 11 February 2021, 5.30pm
President Biden: a clean slate, a correction to the norm, or more of the same? by Sophia Gaston
This is an online event
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Location
Tuesday 9 February 2021, 5.30pm
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: The first draft human genome at 20: how has genomics altered the way humanity understands itself? by Professor Steve Yearley
This is an online event.
Date/Time
Location
Tuesday 1 December 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: New voices on science, agriculture and engineering
This is an online event.
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 26 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Poetry that ‘will live and do good’. Reimagining Wordsworth by Jeff Cowton
This is an online event.
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Location
Tuesday 24 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: ‘Now we have your attention’: pandemics, protest, and politics from below by Jack Shenker
This is an online event.
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Location
Thursday 19 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Lions of the North – the Percys and Alnwick Castle – 1000 years of history by Ralph Percy
This is an online event.
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Location
Tuesday 17 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Hostile environment: challenging anti-immigration myths by Dr Maya Goodfellow
This is an online event.
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Location
Thursday 12 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Birds and us: how we shaped them and they shaped us by Professor Tim Birkhead
This is an online event.
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Location
Tuesday 10 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: World Mental Health Day Lecture: There and back again – a journey through mental illness by Adam Gridley
This is an online event.
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Location
NEW DATE: Thursday 5 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: The rise of neoliberal feminism by Professor Catherine Rottenberg
This is an online event.
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Location
Tuesday 3 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Oral History Lecture: After displacement: journeys of the mind and memory communities by Professor Indira Chowdhury
This is an online event.
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Location
Thursday 29 October 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: The robotic alchemist - digital assembly of drugs and chemical brains by Professor Lee Cronin
This is an online event.
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Location
Tuesday 27 October 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Everything from nothing: how our universe was made by Professor Carlos Frenk
This is an online event.
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Location
Thursday 22 October 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Black History Month Lecture: A Bitter Sweet Journey: from slavery to freedom and beyond the colour line by Dr Keith Magee
This is an online event.
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Location
Tuesday 20 October 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: A global history of sexual violence by Professor Joanna Bourke
This is an online event.
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Location
Thursday 15 October 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Slowdown: The end of the great acceleration – and why it’s good for the planet, the economy, and our lives by Professor Danny Dorling
This is an online event.
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Location
Thursday 8 October 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Dressed: How to think about clothes by Professor Shahidha Bari
This is an online event.
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Location
Tuesday 6 October 2020, 17:30 - 18:15
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: The Victoria Cross – Spoiling a Good Story? By Dr Andrew Marriott
This is an online event.
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Location
Thursday 6 August 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Revisited: Out of the wreckage: a new politics for an age of crisis by George Monbiot
This is an online event.
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Location
Tuesday 4 August 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Kurt Schwitters, The Merz Barn, and the ‘Biomorphic 40s' by Lloyd Gibson
This is an online event.
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Location
Thursday 30 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Revisited: The bountiful sea: prospects for sustainable use of marine bioresources by Peter Olive
This is an online event.
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Location
Tuesday 28 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: New voices on arts, humanities and social sciences
This is an online event.
Date/Time
Location
Thursday 23 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: Gertrude Bell and the ‘Woman Question’ by Professor Helen Berry
This is an online event.
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Location
Tuesday 21 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: The Poetry of Uncertainty by Professor Sinéad Morrissey
This is an online event.
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Location
Thursday 16 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Revisited: The Bohemian Diaspora: my relationship to the art world by Grayson Perry
This is an online event.
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Location
Tuesday 14 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Philosophy in times of crisis: thinking about Covid-19 with the help of Emmanuel Levinas by Dr Tina Chanter
This is an online event.
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Location
Thursday 9 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: Everyday sexism by Laura Bates
This is an online event.
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Location
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: The Talk of the Toon: a linguistic ‘time capsule’ for the Google generation
This is an online event.
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Thursday 2 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: British Women in the Liberation of Frederick Douglass
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Tuesday 30 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Collecting Classical Antiquity: Brian B. Shefton 100 years by Andrew Parkin
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Thursday 25 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Revisited: Seeing homosexuality in Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw by Dr Emma Parker and Leonie Orton
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Tuesday 23 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: The Great Wall story – the way I have discovered it by William Lindesay
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Tuesday 16 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: What’s the point of university during a pandemic? Hints from CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien by Professor Nick Megoran
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Thursday 11 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Revisited: What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J Sandel
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Tuesday 9 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: People’s history in historical pageants in Britain, 1905–2016 by Alexander Hutton
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Thursday 4 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Understanding stem cells by Professor Fiona Watt
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Tuesday 2 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:45
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Is this the end? Hadrian's Wall and the End of the Roman Empire by Dr Rob Collins
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Thursday 28 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Quantifying the impact of Covid-19 on city systems by Professor Phil James
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Tuesday 26 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Ageism and age stereotyping during COVID-19 by Professor Thomas Scharf
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Thursday 21 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Revisited: Hearts and Minds: the untold story behind votes for women by Jane Robinson
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Tuesday 19 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Bagpuss: The Central Delight by Sandra Kerr
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Thursday 14 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Revisited: America in Transition: Barack Obama's legacy and Donald Trump's Prospects by Professor Iwan Morgan
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Tuesday 12 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: More than Food: solidarity and care at the Newcastle West End Foodbank by Dr Alison Atkinson-Phillips
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Thursday 7 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Revisited: Art history in motion: art museums and their publics in a 2020 world by Maria Balshaw
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Tuesday 5 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Allocating scarce resources in a pandemic: ethical reflections by Reverend Bryan Vernon
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Thursday 30 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Allocating scarce resources in a pandemic: ethical reflections by Reverend Bryan Vernon
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Thursday 30 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:00
INSIGHTS Revisited: Alnwick, Rothley and Kirkharle – the three Northumberland landscapes of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown by Nick Owen
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Tuesday 28 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: Alnwick, Rothley and Kirkharle – the three Northumberland landscapes of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown by Nick Owen
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Tuesday 28 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Shakespeare in the time of lockdown by Professor Julie Sanders
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Thursday 23 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: Three Tales from the Biomedical Frontier
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Tuesday 21 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: The Speaker, Parliament and engaging with the modern democracy by John Bercow
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Thursday 16 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
INSIGHTS Revisited: Eliminating war in the twenty-first century by Bruce Kent
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Tuesday 14 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30