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Could bees have emotions?
Dr Vivek Nityananda, Newcastle University
Date: 20 February 2025

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

Date/Time 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

Date/Time 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

Date/Time 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

Date/Time 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

Date/Time 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

Date/Time 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

Date/Time Location
Thursday 10 February 2022, 5.30pm This is an online event

Beauty at the beginning of life by Professor Mary Herbert

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 7 December 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

New Conservatives? The Conservative Party after Brexit by Neil Carmichael

Date/Time Location
Thursday 2 December 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

Perspectives and understandings of ‘good farming’ by Dr Amy Proctor

Date/Time 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

Date/Time 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

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 5.30pm This is an online event

Putting disadvantaged children at the heart of recovery by Anne Longfield OBE

Date/Time 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

Date/Time 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?

Date/Time 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

Date/Time 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

Date/Time 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

Date/Time 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

Date/Time 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

Date/Time 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

Date/Time 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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Thursday 4 March 2021, 5.30pm

Child poverty in the North East region by Jonathan Bradshaw

This is an online event

Date/Time 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

Date/Time 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.

Date/Time 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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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.

Date/Time 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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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.

Date/Time 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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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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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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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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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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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.

Date/Time 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.

Date/Time 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.

Date/Time 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.

Date/Time 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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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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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.

Date/Time 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.

Date/Time 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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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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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.

Date/Time 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.

Date/Time Location
Thursday 9 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Revisited: Everyday sexism by Laura Bates

This is an online event.

Date/Time 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.

Date/Time Location
Thursday 2 July 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Revisited: British Women in the Liberation of Frederick Douglass

This is an online event.

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 30 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Collecting Classical Antiquity: Brian B. Shefton 100 years by Andrew Parkin

This is an online event.

Date/Time Location
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

This is an online event.

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 23 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Revisited: The Great Wall story – the way I have discovered it by William Lindesay

This is an online event.

Date/Time Location
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

This is an online event.

Date/Time Location
Thursday 11 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:00

INSIGHTS Revisited: What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J Sandel

This is an online event.

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 9 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Revisited: People’s history in historical pageants in Britain, 1905–2016 by Alexander Hutton

This is an online event.

Date/Time Location
Thursday 4 June 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Understanding stem cells by Professor Fiona Watt

This is an online event.

Date/Time Location
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

This is an online event.

Date/Time Location
Thursday 28 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Quantifying the impact of Covid-19 on city systems by Professor Phil James

This is an online event.

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 26 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Ageism and age stereotyping during COVID-19 by Professor Thomas Scharf

This is an online event.

Date/Time Location
Thursday 21 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00

INSIGHTS Revisited: Hearts and Minds: the untold story behind votes for women by Jane Robinson

This is an online event.

Date/Time Location
Tuesday 19 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Bagpuss: The Central Delight by Sandra Kerr

This is an online event.

Date/Time Location
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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Date/Time Location
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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Date/Time Location
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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Date/Time Location
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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Date/Time Location
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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Date/Time Location
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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Date/Time Location
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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Date/Time Location
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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Date/Time Location
Thursday 23 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Revisited: Three Tales from the Biomedical Frontier

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Date/Time Location
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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Date/Time Location
Thursday 16 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30

INSIGHTS Revisited: Eliminating war in the twenty-first century by Bruce Kent

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Date/Time Location
Tuesday 14 April 2020, 17:30 - 18:30