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