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  • STANDING ON THE SHORE OF THE OCEAN OF TRUTH: NATURAL THEOLOGY, NATURAL SCIENCE, AND THE HUMAN QUEST FOR MEANING

    Riddell Memorial Lectures

    Date/Time: 4th February 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • MUSIC AND THE BRAIN

    Date/Time: 19th February 2008, 17:30 - 18:45

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • CULTURE, SOCIETY AND LEADERSHIP

    Date/Time: 21st February 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • PRIDE IN THE LION: THE HISTORY OF NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB

    Date/Time: 26th February 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • RE-MAKE/RE-MODEL: ART, POP, FASHION AND THE MAKING OF ROXY MUSIC, 1953 - 1972

    Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, 5:30pm

    Date/Time: 28th February 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • ALL SHAPES AND SIZES: DOES FAMILY STRUCTURE MATTER FOR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING OF THE CHILD?

    Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

    Date/Time: 4th March 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • THE EVOLUTION OF YUCK: DISGUST, DIRT AND DISEASE

    British Association Northumbria Branch Lecture

    Date/Time: 6th March 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • THE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ITS CITY AND REGION

    Date/Time: 11th March 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • ROBERT PEEL AND THE MODERN CONSERVATIVE PARTY

    Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

    Date/Time: 13th March 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • DISSECTING INFORMED CONSENT

    Note: 6pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

    Date/Time: 10th April 2008, 18:00

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • THE MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES: A RETROSPECTIVE

    Followed by a last opportunity for a nostalgic visit to the present museum

    Date/Time: 17th April 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • THE RURAL NORTH: LANDSCAPES OF ENDEAVOUR AND INQUIRY

    Cameron-Gifford Lecture

    Date/Time: 22nd April 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • SCIENCE FAILINGS, POLICY INADEQUACIES AND WHY FLOODING CAN ONLY GET WORSE

    Date/Time: 1st May 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • JULIUS CAESAR: HIS PART IN MY DOWNFALL

    Date/Time: 8th May 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • THE CENTENARY OF THE DOVE MARINE LABORATORY: 100 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE IN MARINE BIOLOGY RESEARCH

    British Association Northumbria Branch Lecture

    Date/Time: 15th May 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Inventing Iran; Inventing Iraq: Britons and Americans in the Middle East

    A lecture in association with WW Norton & Company

    Date/Time: 2nd October 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Senseless huge wars

    A lecture in association with Seven Stories, The Centre for Children’s Books

    Date/Time: 7th October 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Renewable energy-headline or sideline?

    Sir Joseph Swan Memorial Lecture

    Date/Time: 14th October 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • From the Big Bang to the Nobel Prize and on to James Webb Space Telescope

    Robinson Prize Lecture

    Date/Time: 16th October 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Crofting communities are the future: promoting sustainable rural communities in Scotland and the North East

    Date/Time: 21st October 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Local heroes (sung and unsung) of the study of earth behaviour in the last century

    A lecture in association with the Northern Regional Group of the Geological Society

    Date/Time: 23rd October 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • What's wrong with the Stoic idea of happiness?

    Trevor Saunders Lecture in Ancient Philosophy

    Date/Time: 28th October 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • A female astronomer reflects

    Sophia Lecture

    Date/Time: 30th October 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Thomas Hardy

    Date/Time: 6th November 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Is evolution over?

    A joint lecture with the North East Humanists to commemorate the forthcoming 200th Anniversary of Darwin’s birth

    Date/Time: 11th November 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Clothes and power: from Napoleon to Osama

    Date/Time: 18th November 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Signs of change: the lost world of enamel advertising

    Date/Time: 20th November 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Life on air: a history of Radio Four

    A lecture in association with Oxford University Press

    Date/Time: 9th December 2008, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • NILS-GÖRAN LARSSON, Professor in Mitochondrial Genetics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

    Jacobson Lecture (Free entry, no tickets required for this lecture)

    Date/Time: 3rd February 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • PROFESSOR CHRIS HIGGINS, Vice-Chancellor and Warden, Durham University

    Albert Latner Memorial Lecture in Clinical Biochemistry (Free entry, no tickets required for this lecture)

    Date/Time: 5th February 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • DERMOT RODDY, Science City Professor of Energy, Newcastle University

    Date/Time: 10th February 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • JUDITH HERRIN, Professor Emerita and Senior Research Fellow in Byzantine Studies, King’s College London

    (Free entry, no tickets required for this lecture)

    Date/Time: 19th February 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • ERIC CROSS, Professor of Culture and Music and Dean of Cultural Affairs, Newcastle University

    Avison Lecture Series Marking the bicentenary of the Newcastle composer, Charles Avison. (Free entry, no tickets required for this lecture)

    Date/Time: 24th February 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • MICHAEL LEMONICK, Author

    (Free entry, no tickets required for this lecture)

    Date/Time: 26th February 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • PATRICK COCKBURN, The Independent's Chief Middle East Correspondent

    Tyneside Geographical Lecture(Free entry, no tickets required for this lecture)

    Date/Time: 3rd March 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • PROFESSOR CHRIS BRINK , Vice-Chancellor Newcastle University

    (Free entry, no tickets required for this lecture)

    Date/Time: 4th March 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • RICHARD WISTREICH, Head of Performance and Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University and ELIZABETH KENNY, Lecturer in Performance and Head of Early Music, University of Southampton

    Date/Time: 5th March 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • DAVID ROONEY, Curator of Timekeeping, Royal Observatory Greenwich

    (Free entry, no tickets required for this lecture)

    Date/Time: 10th March 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • RICHARD FORTEY, Leverhulme Fellow and Research Association at the Natural History Museum

     - NATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING WEEK 2009 sponsored by THE BRITISH SCIENCE ASSOCIATION Sponsored by THE BRITISH SCIENCE ASSOCIATION Note: admission to this lecture is free but you are asked to apply for tickets (tel: 0191 208 6136)  -  **THERE ARE NO MORE TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR THIS LECTURE**

    Date/Time: 19th March 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • JOHN GURNEY, Visiting Fellow, School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University

    Lecture to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of the Digger, Gerrard Winstanley

    Date/Time: 21st April 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • ANNE BORLAND, Reader in Molecular Plant Physiology in the School of Biology at Newcastle University and Director of Moorbank Botanic Garden

    THE BRITISH SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, NORTHUMBRIA BRANCH LECTURE (Free entry, no tickets required for this lecture)

    Date/Time: 28th April 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • JOHN AND MARY GRIBBIN, Visiting Fellows at the University of Sussex

    Date/Time: 30th April 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • ELAINE PERRY, Professor of Neurochemical Pathology at the IAH/IoN, Newcastle University, Curator and Director of Dilston Physic Garden

    Date/Time: 5th May 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • PROFESSOR SIR MICHAEL RAWLINS, Chairman, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence

    Date/Time: 7th May 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • RICHARD DOWDEN, Director the Royal African Society

    Date/Time: 12th May 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • JASON KELLY, Assistant Professor of British History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis,

    Date/Time: 14th May 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • ADMIRAL SIR JONATHON BAND GCB ADC, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff

    Defence Lecture

    Date/Time: 19th May 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • Jeremy Paterson, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Newcastle University

    Lecture marking the retirement of the Chair of Public Lectures

    Date/Time: 29th May 2009, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Ten Years in a Gown: Some Reflections on a Decade of Change in and outside the University

    Date/Time: 6th July 2009, 18:00

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • FRANCES SPALDING, Professor of Art History and new Chair of Public Lectures, Newcastle University

    A look at the way in which John Piper, as artist and writer, helped revive awareness of national identity in art, architecture and design during the Second World War.

    Date/Time: 1st October 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • DAME MARGARET DRABBLE, Writer

    Margaret Drabble will talk about writing memoir, using the jigsaw puzzle as a metaphor for the puzzles of the past.  

    Date/Time: 6th October 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • SIR DONALD CURRY, Government Advisor on Food and Farming Policy

    Joseph Swan Memorial LectureAgainst the background of climate change, and food, environmental and energy security, how are we going to reconcile the competing pressures on land and the countryside?

    Date/Time: 8th October 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Herschel Building

  • STEVE MCLEAN, Senior Manager, Great North Museum

    Lecture in association with the British Science Association An insight into the development of the region’s newest visitor attraction and its purpose-built storage and research facilities.

    Date/Time: 13th October 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • DAME GILLIAN BEER, Writer and Darwin Scholar

    What happened to Darwin’s early passion for music, poetry, and visual art? Did it simply die away or was it transformed in his later theories?

    Date/Time: 15th October 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • PROFESSOR OLE HINDSGAUL, Leader of the Carbohydrate Chemistry Group, Carlsberg Laboratory, Denmark

    Wynne-Jones Memorial Lecture Professor Hindsgaul discusses his exploration of the development of new, simple chemistry-based methods that will yield information on the identity and quantity of a carbohydrate solute with minimal use of sophisticated instruments.

    Date/Time: 20th October 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • JONATHON PORRITT, Founder Director of the Forum for the Future, and Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission

    Jack Jeffery Environment and Sustainability Lecture

    Date/Time: 27th October 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • DANIEL NETTLE, Reader, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Newcastle University

    The Society of Biology A look at how human behaviour varies with the ecological context in which people live, even within the small areas that make up a single city.

    Date/Time: 3rd November 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • ROB COWAN, Director, Urban Design Skills

    Thomas Sharp Lecture Any planner who refused to provide a drawing could not be planning in any meaningful way, according to Thomas Sharp.‘Either they have the plans worked out or they’ve got a nonsensical document!’ he thundered. Seventy years later it seems that his message has finally got through. Today, everyone is busy masterplanning, but the output of nonsense is undiminished. Rob Cowan sounds the alarm and offers a solution.

    Date/Time: 5th November 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • DR EMMA BAXTER, DR JANET SIMKIN AND DR ANGELA JONES

    PhD talks sponsored by the British Science Association

    Date/Time: 10th November 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • RICHARD WRANGHAM, Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University, and Director of the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in Uganda

    Human anatomy, physiology, behaviour and society have all been strongly shaped by the need for cooked food – a relationship that goes back to our distant past.

    Date/Time: 11th November 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • PROFESSOR JAMES HUNTER CBE, Director, Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands

    A real-life family saga that illuminates the similar fates of Scotland’s clans and America’s native peoples.

    Date/Time: 12th November 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • Professor Martin A Birchall, Professor of Laryngology, The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear hospital, London

    TWENTY-SEVENTH GREY TURNEER LECTUREOrganised by The Clinical Deanery, Faculty of Medical Sciences and in conjunction with the North of England Surgical Society  

    Date/Time: 13th November 2009, 17:30

    Venue: David Shaw Lecture Theatre,The Medical School, Newcastle University

  • CLIMATE JUSTICE

      Guest of Honour, HE Maria Beatriz Souviron-Crespo, the Bolivian Ambassador;  Speakers, Md Shamsuddoha from Equity Bangladesh; Nick Dearden, Director Jubilee Debt Campaign UK

    Date/Time: 16th November 2009, 18:00

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • PROFESSOR DANA ARNOLD, Professor of Architectural History, University of Southampton

    This lecture explores the role and significance of hospitals in London from c1700–1840 when attitudes towards their purpose and function were considerably transformed.

    Date/Time: 17th November 2009, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • MICHAEL WOOD, TV Presenter and Historian

    Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle upon Tyne Note: 6pm start

    Date/Time: 25th November 2009, 18:00

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • NICK HORNBY, Author

    The Fifth Fickling Lecture on Developments in Children’s Literature in association with Seven Stories, The Centre for Children's Books A lot of good writing for teenagers has appeared recently, some of it by Nick Hornby. Here he will argue that all writers have a great deal to learn from young adult fiction, not least the vital knack of holding the reader’s attention.

    Date/Time: 26th November 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • DENIS ALEXANDER, Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge University

    A critical discussion of the many ways in which evolution has been used ideologically, from Darwin’s era to Dawkins and the Creationists.

    Date/Time: 1st December 2009, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • Tales from the Bush 2009

    University Expeditions Committee

    Date/Time: 8th December 2009, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University

  • RICCARDO FODDE, Professor of Experimental Pathology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam

    Jacobson LectureA new theory suggests the cancers contain cells with the same properties as stem cells which are resistant to conventional drug treatment and this explains why treated tumours return.

    Date/Time: 14th January 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: David Shaw Lecture Theatre, Medical School

  • An Inside Job – Medical Physics Investigates: Lecture 1: The Case of the Heavy Heart

    John H Holmes Memorial Lectures for 10-14 year olds To register for free tickets please contact the Public Lectures Office on 0191 208 6136 or email public.lectures@ncl.ac.uk

    Date/Time: 19th January 2010, 17:00

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • An Inside Job – Medical Physics Investigates: Lecture 2: The Case of the Busy Brain

    John H Holmes Memorial Lectures for 10-14 year olds To register for free tickets please contact the Public Lectures Office on 0191 208 6136 or email public.lectures@ncl.ac.uk

    Date/Time: 20th January 2010, 17:00

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • LEE HALL, Author and Playwright (Billy Elliot, The Pitmen Painters)

    Relating his experience as a screenwriter, playwright, translator and adaptor, Lee Hall gives a very subjective survey of dramatic theory from the Greek to The Simpsons.

    Date/Time: 26th January 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • SIR MARTIN HARRIS, President, Clare Hall, Cambridge and Director, Office of Fair Access to Higher Education

    Earl Grey Lecture University education was always seen as a privilege, opening doors to opportunities and upward social mobility. At the same time, there is strong pressure for wider participation and fairer access. These apparently contradictory positions are explored.

    Date/Time: 2nd February 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • BONNIE GREER, Author and Playwright

    Bonnie Greer discusses the role of abstraction in Black History, and considers the current problems of gang culture as part of an ancient narrative, asking how it is possible to create art, music and literature through the same forces that cause death on the streets.

    Date/Time: 9th February 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • THE RT HON SHIRLEY WILLIAMS

    The former cabinet minister reflects on a career during which she was the second most prominent woman in British Politics.  

    Date/Time: 16th February 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • CHRISTOPHER RITSON, Professor of Agricultural Marketing, Newcastle University

    Cameron-Gifford Lecture Chris Ritson reflects on our growing understanding of consumer food choice; the emergence of quality and safety as the dominant force in UK food policy; and the role of social marketing in public-interest aspects of diet and health.  

    Date/Time: 25th February 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • PROFESSOR CHRIS DAY, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University

       

    Date/Time: 3rd March 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: David Shaw Lecture Theatre, Medical School

  • DR SEAN PALING. Sheffield University and The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

    An overview of the work carried out by astronomers and particle physicists at the North East's Boulby Mine – searching for the missing mass in the Universe. All are welcome (no great particle physics or astronomy expertise needed!).

    Date/Time: 4th March 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • PROFESSOR MIKE BENTON, Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Bristol

    Spectacularly preserved fossils of birds and small dinosaurs from China show that feathers evolved early. These early feathers share fine ultrastructural details with modern feathers, and reveal for the first time the exact colours of some of these ancient creatures.

    Date/Time: 9th March 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • PHILLIPPE SANDS QC, Professor of Law at University College London and Barrister, Matrix Chambers

    Date/Time: 10th March 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • PROFESSOR SIR MICHAEL MARMOT, International Institute for Society and Health, University College London

    Part of the Changing Age programme of events

    Date/Time: 11th March 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • DR BEN WIGHAM, Lecturer in Marine Sciences, Newcastle University

    Science and Engineering Week Lecture

    Date/Time: 16th March 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • NICKY CLAYTON, Professor of Comparative Psychology, Cambridge University

    Brain Awareness Week Lecture As healthy adult humans, we spend most of our time thinking about the past and planning for the future: mental time travel is what we do for a living. However, we are not born with this ability. This lecture will review when we develop these skills, as well as the extent to which we share these abilities with other animals.

    Date/Time: 18th March 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • PROFESSOR BHIKHU PAREKH, FBA, Emeritus Professor, Universities of Westminster and Hull

    Free admission - no tickets needed

    Date/Time: 20th April 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • ANDREW SAINT, General Editor of the Survey of London

    Armstrong Circle Lecture Cragside is a grand expression of the English romantic dream. It is also a fusion of art, science, architecture and technology, drawn together by two remarkable Victorian talents. This is the story, often strangely obscure, of how the house came into being.

    Date/Time: 22nd April 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • JULIET NICOLSON, Author

    Despite the relief after the signing of the Armistice ending the First World War, Britain remained paralysed by grief. This is the moving story of a nation struggling to regain hope.

    Date/Time: 27th April 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • BRITAIN AND THE GENERAL ELECTION 2010

    A panel of parliamentarians, in conversation with each other and the audience, reflect on the Election: on the campaign, on the parliament that preceded it, and on the prospects for Britain.

    Date/Time: 29th April 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • PROFESSOR STEPHEN HOPPER, Director, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew

    Lecture to Mark International Year of Biodiversity

    Date/Time: 4th May 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • PROFESSOR SHEILA ROWAN, Director, Institute for Gravitational Research, University of Glasgow

    This lecture discusses the current searches for gravitational waves from astrophysical sources. These elusive signals – ‘ripples in the curvature of spacetime’ – carry unique information about what is happening deep in the heart of some of the most violent events in the Universe.

    Date/Time: 6th May 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • VIVIAN COOK, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Newcastle University

    Date/Time: 13th May 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • PROFESSOR GRAHAM ROWLES, Visiting Fellow at Newcastle University

    Part of the 'Changing Age programme of events

    Date/Time: 13th July 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)

  • Coal: it's not all black!

    Date/Time: 7th October 2010

  • The synthesis of large and small molecules using olefin methathesis catalysts (Wynne-Jones Memorial Lecture)

    Date/Time: 12th October 2010

  • BRUCE VALPY, Director of BVG Associates

    Joseph Swan Memorial Lecture Free admission, no pre-booking required  

    Date/Time: 19th October 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • JULIET GARDINER, Author

    Free admission, no pre-booking required    

    Date/Time: 21st October 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • PROFESSOR PANKAJ VADGAMA, Queen Mary University of London

    Albert Latner Memorial Lecture in Clinical Biochemistry Free admission, no pre-booking required

    Date/Time: 26th October 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • PROFESSOR ENRIQUE DUSSEL, University of Mexico

    Society of Latin American Studies Annual Lecture and School of Modern Languages Centenary EventFree admission, no pre-booking required

    Date/Time: 29th October 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Auditorium

  • GRACE MCCOMBIE, Buildings Historian

    Free admission, no pre-booking required

    Date/Time: 2nd November 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • MIRIAM STOPPARD, Writer and Broadcaster

        Part of the Changing Age programme, in collaboration with the Lit and Phil  

    Date/Time: 4th November 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • CHRIS HUTCHISON, Durham University

    Society of Biology Lecture Free admission, no pre-booking required

    Date/Time: 11th November 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Undergraduate Research Expeditions and Scholarships 2010

    Free admission, no pre-booking required

    Date/Time: 17th November 2010, 17:30 - 19:15

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • RODDY DOYLE, Author

    The Sixth Fickling Lecture on Developments in Children’s Literature

    Date/Time: 18th November 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • IAN HAYNES, Newcastle University

    Society of Antiquaries Lecture Free admission, no pre-booking required   

    Date/Time: 24th November 2010, 18:00 - 19:00

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • HENRIETTA HEALD, Author

      Armstrong Circle Lecture   Free admission, no pre-booking required    

    Date/Time: 25th November 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • RICHARD BAUCKHAM, Emeritus Professor of Universities of St Andrews and Cambridge

    Riddell Memorial Lecture Free admission, no pre-booking required

    Date/Time: 8th December 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • RICHARD BAUKHAM, Emeritus Professor of Universities of St Andrews and Cambridge

    Riddell Memorial Lecture Free admission, no pre-booking required

    Date/Time: 9th December 2010, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Marvellous, Mind Blowing, Magical Molecules: Lecture 1 - LIGHTS! Illuminating Chemistry

    John H Holmes Memorial Lectures for 10-14 year olds To reserve free places, please contact the Public Lectures office on 0191 208 6136 or e-mail: public.lectures@ncl.ac.uk

    Date/Time: 18th January 2011, 17:00 - 18:00

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Professor Ian Deary FBA, University of Edinburgh

    British Academy lecture in association with the School of Psychology

    Date/Time: 24th January 2011, 17:30

    Venue: David Shaw Lecture Theatre, Medical School

  • An evening celebrating the life of Zdenka Fantlova

    Free admission, no pre-booking required

    Date/Time: 1st February 2011, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Professor David Nutt, Imperial College London

    Free admission, no pre-booking required

    Date/Time: 3rd February 2011, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Dr Matt Ridley, author and broadcaster

    Free admission, no pre-booking required  

    Date/Time: 8th February 2011, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Tony Durcan, Director of Culture, Libraries and Lifelong Learning, Newcastle City Council

    Free admission, no pre-booking required

    Date/Time: 10th February 2011, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Roy Hattersley, writer, broadcaster and former deputy leader of the Labour Party *now fully booked*

     

    Date/Time: 15th February 2011, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton KCB ADC, Chief of the Air Staff

    Defence Lecture Free admission, no pre-booking required

    Date/Time: 17th February 2011, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Professor Dave Perrett FBA, University of St Andrews

    British Academy lecture in association with the School of Psychology

    Date/Time: 21st February 2011, 17:30

    Venue: David Shaw Lecture Theatre, Medical School

  • Alex Cobham, Chief Policy Adviser, Christian Aid

    Lecture leading up to Fairtrade Fortnight Free admission, no pre-booking required

    Date/Time: 22nd February 2011, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Contemporary Portugal: from Empire to Europe

    Camoes Centre for Portuguese Language Public Lecture Free admission, no pre-booking required

    Date/Time: 24th February 2011, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Language and music: same structures, different building blocks

    Free admission, no pre-booking required

    Date/Time: 1st March 2011, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • The extinction crisis: is there any hope?

    Date/Time: 3rd March 2011, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Muslim heritage and the cultural roots of science

    Date/Time: 8th March 2011, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • WINNING WOMEN

    Diversity Season Lecture

    Date/Time: 10th March 2011, 17:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Green gold: prospecting for algae oil

    Science Fest 2011 Lecture

    Date/Time: 15th March 2011, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • A little light relief

    Royal Society of Chemistry Lecture

    Date/Time: 17th March 2011, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Translating research into better treatments for children with cancer - a Newcastle perspective

    Date/Time: 29th March 2011, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Cures for cancer — mission possible in the twenty-first century?

    Jacobson Lecture

    Date/Time: 31st March 2011, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Beauty and nature: why the National Trust’s founding ambitions matter more than ever today

    Date/Time: 12th May 2011, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Shami Chakrabarti : Common values, common politics: human rights in a new era of British government

    Sophia Lecture 

    Date/Time: 17th May 2011, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Fifty years in the BBC – taking stock of the future

    Date/Time: 4th October 2011

  • 2011: The resilient brain: cognition and ageing

    Date/Time: 5th October 2011

  • The struggle for black British literature

    Date/Time: 6th October 2011

  • The Talk of the Toon: a linguistic ‘time capsule’ for the Google generation

    Date/Time: 13th October 2011

  • The challenge of sustainability (Wynne-Jones Memorial Lecture)

    Date/Time: 18th October 2011

  • The history of white people (Black History Month Lecture)

    Date/Time: 20th October 2011

  • The bountiful sea: prospects for sustainable use of marine bioresources (Society of Biology Charter Lecture)

    Date/Time: 1st November 2011

  • The King James Bible: the making of a classic translation

    Date/Time: 3rd November 2011

  • Where is the new economy? Prosperity, work and sustainability 'after the crisis' (Jack Jeffery Environment and Sustainability Lecture)

    Date/Time: 8th November 2011

  • Lest we forget: Tacitus on history writing under a tyranny

    Date/Time: 10th November 2011

  • The Bohemian Diaspora: my relationship to the art world (Lecture in association with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art)

    Date/Time: 15th November 2011

  • Celebrating student research: vacation scholarships and expeditions 2011

    Date/Time: 16th November 2011

  • Why is the universe bio-friendly? (Robinson Prize Lecture in Cosmology)

    Date/Time: 24th November 2011

  • Imperial purple porphyry: the archaeology of the emperors’ building stone (Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne Lecture)

    Date/Time: 30th November 2011

  • Opera, passion and tragedy in Georgian Britain: the curious history of the castrato and his wife (Lecture in association with the British Scholar Society)

    Date/Time: 6th December 2011

  • The Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better for Everyone

    Date/Time: 2nd February 2012

  • Medieval aesthetics and the heroic age of Gothic invention (Charlton Memorial Lecture)

    Date/Time: 7th February 2012

  • Managing London’s roads and keeping the capital moving at Games time

    Date/Time: 9th February 2012

  • Charles Dickens: A Life

    Date/Time: 21st February 2012, 17:30 - 18:30

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Enlisting Dumbledore’s army: children’s stories and human rights (Fickling Lecture on Developments in Children’s Literature)

    Date/Time: 6th March 2012

  • Dark matters

    Date/Time: 15th March 2012

  • The Queen – art and image

    Date/Time: 19th April 2012

  • Imagining Christian truth - Releasing the imagination (Riddell Memorial Lectures)

    Date/Time: 30th April 2012

  • Imagining Christian truth - Retelling the stories of our time (Riddell Memorial Lectures)

    Date/Time: 1st May 2012

  • Britain, Europe and the new global balance (Chris Patten Lecture on Social Renewal)

    Date/Time: 8th May 2012

  • Common metabolic disease – lessons from the extreme (Albert Latner Memorial Lecture in Clinical Biochemistry)

    Date/Time: 17th May 2012

  • The legacy of Dr Martin Luther King (Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture 2012)

    Date/Time: 5th October 2012

  • What is the way towards a better understanding of depression?

    Date/Time: 9th October 2012

  • Will Electricity Market Reform work, and why does it have to be so complicated? (Swan Memorial Lecture)

    Date/Time: 11th October 2012

  • Molecules that changed the world (Wynne-Jones Memorial Lecture)

    Date/Time: 16th October 2012

  • Ian Nairn: inspired by Newcastle (Thomas Sharp Lecture)

    Date/Time: 18th October 2012

  • There are alternatives! Democratic education and the common school

    Date/Time: 25th October 2012

  • Edward VII: the playboy prince who saved the monarchy

    Date/Time: 30th October 2012

  • Welfare and warfare: how China’s past is shaping its present – and future

    Date/Time: 1st November 2012

  • The future of learning

    Date/Time: 15th November 2012

  • Celebrating student research scholarships and expeditions 2012

    Date/Time: 21st November 2012

  • Tennyson: a romantic in an un-romantic age

    Date/Time: 4th December 2012

  • Cosmic Dramas: interrelationship of technological ikons with female mythology

    Date/Time: 6th December 2012

  • MI5 from the Kaiser to Al-Qaeda

    Date/Time: 5th February 2013

  • Public health: time for social renewal?

    Date/Time: 7th February 2013

  • Sexual rights and wrongs in Southern and Eastern Africa (LGBT History Month Lecture)

    Date/Time: 14th February 2013

  • Why Rousseau was Wrong: Christianity and the Secular Soul

    Date/Time: 21st February 2013

  • Eliminating war in the twenty-first century (Tyneside Geographical Lecture)

    Date/Time: 28th February 2013

  • Ben Jonson and fame

    Date/Time: 12th March 2013

  • The Generation of Memory: Gender and the Popular Memory of the Second World War in Britain

    Date/Time: 14th March 2013

  • Alexander the Great: cross-dressing conqueror of the world?

    Date/Time: 16th April 2013

  • Beyond the Millennium Development Goals: charting a course for a fairer world (Inaugural Newcastle Jubilee Development Lecture)

    Date/Time: 23rd April 2013

  • Three tales from the biomedical frontier

    Date/Time: 14th May 2013

  • T Dan Smith – hero or villain?

    Date/Time: 22nd October 2013

  • Climate change: what’s virtue got to do with it? (Tyneside Geographical Lecture)

      

    Date/Time: 28th November 2013

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University

  • Richard Burton: the aspirant scholar

    Date/Time: 5th December 2013

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University

  • Getting old in two languages: how bilingualism affects memory and ageing

    Date/Time: 6th February 2014

  • The Underground Railroad and the Struggle Against Slavery

    Free admission, no pre-booking required.

    Date/Time: 11th February 2014

  • For ever, for everyone. What does this mean for the National Trust in the 21st century? (Cameron-Gifford Lecture)

    Free admission, no pre-booking required.

    Date/Time: 13th February 2014

  • What's in your head? (Fickling Lecture)

    Fickling Lecture on Developments in Children's Literature Free admission, no booking needed.

    Date/Time: 27th February 2014

  • Strategy and the underdog

    Free admission, no pre-booking.

    Date/Time: 4th March 2014

  • 'If only...’ Some soul-searching over the 1984–5 miners’ strike

    Free admission, no pre-booking required.

    Date/Time: 11th March 2014

  • The bombing war 1939-1945: new perspectives

    Free admission, no pre-booking required.

    Date/Time: 13th March 2014

  • Noble Endeavours: England and Germany - in praise of a forgotten friendship

    Free admission, no pre-booking required.

    Date/Time: 18th March 2014

  • An accidental redesigner (RW Mann Lecture)

    Free admission, no pre-booking required.

    Date/Time: 20th March 2014

  • Ageing. Identity and Wellbeing: looking at the past to understand the future

    Free admission, no pre-booking required

    Date/Time: 27th March 2014

  • Good cities, better lives (Thomas Sharp Lecture)

    Date/Time: 22nd May 2014

  • Pat Barker, in conversation with Anne Whitehead

    Date/Time: 7th October 2014

  • Social Networks: 60 minutes with Chris Csikszentmihalyi

    Date/Time: 9th October 2014

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Renewables, intermittency and low carbon (Joseph Swan Memorial Lecture)

    Date/Time: 14th October 2014

  • The fall of the Berlin Wall: new perspectives 25 years on

    Date/Time: 23rd October 2014

  • The development of English heraldry (Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne Lecture)

    Date/Time: 29th October 2014

  • New voices on sustainability

    Date/Time: 30th October 2014

  • Reversing the irreversible: Type 2 diabetes and you

    Date/Time: 4th November 2014

  • Russia, Crimea, Ukraine: riddle, mystery, enigma? (Defence Lecture)

    Date/Time: 6th November 2014

  • Every child into school and learning: why not now?

    Date/Time: 25th November 2014

  • Expanding opportunity in education (Jubilee Development Lecture)

    Date/Time: 27th November 2014

  • A little bit autistic? (Sophia Lecture)

    Date/Time: 9th December 2014

  • How did the Islamic State come to exist and what can be done about it?

    Patrick Cockburn, Iraq Correspondent, The Independent

    Date/Time: 3rd February 2015

  • Rediscovering the elixir of life – there is more to ageing than managing ill health

    Professor Aidan Halligan, Director of Well North

    Date/Time: 10th February 2015

  • Thinking with Anne Armstrong: witchcraft in the North East during the 17th century

    James Sharpe, Professor of Early Modern History, University of York

    Date/Time: 12th February 2015

  • My life and easy times: getting away with words (Fickling Lecture)

    Date/Time: 17th February 2015, 17:30 - 18:45

  • An NHS baptism of fire: the first 100 days (R W Mann Lecture)

    Date/Time: 26th February 2015

  • The changing face of crop protection in 21st century agriculture (Cameron-Gifford Lecture)

    Date/Time: 3rd March 2015

  • The Riddle of the Childscape

    Date/Time: 5th March 2015

  • Art for the people: William Morris and his legacy (Charlton Memorial Lecture)

    Date/Time: 23rd April 2015

  • Everyday sexism

    Date/Time: 30th April 2015

  • Three tales from the biomedical frontier

    Date/Time: 5th May 2015

  • Language and thought in children

    Date/Time: 12th May 2015

  • Britain and the general election of 2015

    Date/Time: 14th May 2015

  • Postcapitalism: A Guide to our Future (Lord Patten Lecture on Social Renewal)

    Date/Time: 6th October 2015

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building

  • Sure Start 2020: sure stop?

    Date/Time: 8th October 2015

  • The challenge of change: an AHRC 10th anniversary debate

    Date/Time: 15th October 2015

  • All changed, changed utterly (Grey Turner Lecture)

    Date/Time: 20th October 2015

  • Journeys in weatherland

    Date/Time: 29th October 2015

  • Defence in the 21st century – the need for change (Defence Lecture)

    Date/Time: 3rd November 2015

  • New voices on social renewal

    Date/Time: 5th November 2015

  • Mutton dressed as lamb (British Society for 18th-Century Studies Patron’s Lecture)

    Date/Time: 19th November 2015

  • Making the land known: Henry IV Parts 1 and 2

    Date/Time: 26th November 2015

  • Cholesterol, statins and heart attack risks (Albert Latner Memorial Lecture)

    Date/Time: 1st December 2015

  • From abolition to Zephaniah: a brief history of literature for the Black British child

    Date/Time: 3rd December 2015

  • Cultural property in conflict and peace

    Professor Peter Stone, UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace, Newcastle University

    Date/Time: 4th February 2016

  • Do you know what you are eating? Science identifying food fraud

    Paul Brereton, Head of Agri-food Research, Fera Science Ltd

    Date/Time: 9th February 2016

  • Gertrude Bell and the ‘Woman Question’

    Helen Berry, Professor of British History, Newcastle University

    Date/Time: 23rd February 2016

  • Tackling uncertainty in organisations. The future: opportunity or threat? (R W Mann Lecture)

    Clive Morton OBE, Professor of Corporate Governance and Business Development, Middlesex University Business School

    Date/Time: 25th February 2016

  • New voices on sustainability

    Date/Time: 1st March 2016

  • The anatomy of the street (Thomas Sharp Lecture)

    Michael Hebbert, Professor of Town Planning, University College London, and Editor of Planning Perspectives

    Date/Time: 3rd March 2016

  • Unravelling the Middle East

    Emma Sky, Director of Yale World Fellows and Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute, Yale University

    Date/Time: 8th March 2016

  • 50 years since ‘Cathy Come Home’

    Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Heriot-Watt University 

    Date/Time: 5th May 2016

  • The complexity of language: what we learn and how

    David Lightfoot, Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University, USA

    Date/Time: 10th May 2016

  • 1916 memories, commemoration and absences

    Professor Mary E Daly, University College Dublin

    Date/Time: 19th May 2016

  • Welcome to the Anthropocene (Jack Jeffery Sustainability Lecture)

    a brief history of how humans are reshaping the planet. James Syvitski, Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder.

    Date/Time: 12th July 2016

  • Science, sheep and Amber Ale (Cameron Gifford Lecture)

    Professor Dianna Bowles, University of York. Free admission, all seats allocated on a first-come first-served basis.

    Date/Time: 11th October 2016

  • Black slavery/white freedom: two sides of the same coin in Britain and the Caribbean

    Catherine Hall, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London. 

    Date/Time: 13th October 2016

  • Commemorating the Jarrow Crusade: why the march remains relevant today

    Dr Matt Perry, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University. Free admission, all seats allocated on a first-come first-served basis. 

    Date/Time: 20th October 2016

  • Alnwick, Rothley and Kirkharle – the three Northumberland landscapes of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown

    Nick Owen, historic landscape surveyor. Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne Lecture. Free admission, all seats allocated on a first-come first-served basis. 

    Date/Time: 26th October 2016

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University

  • Stories on the move: suffering, sanctuary, danger (Fickling Lecture)

    Marina Warner, novelist, historian and mythographer. Free admission, all seats allocated on a first-come first-served basis. 

    Date/Time: 3rd November 2016

  • Stalingrad to Syria – how warfare has changed (Defence Lecture)

    Antony Beevor, military historian. Free admission, all seats allocated on a first-come first-served basis. 

    Date/Time: 10th November 2016

  • Three tales from the biomedical frontier

    Winners of the Faculty of Medical Sciences’ postgraduate public-speaking prize. Free admission, all seats allocated on a first-come first-served basis. 

    Date/Time: 17th November 2016

  • The geography of poverty – why place really matters (Lord Patten Lecture on Social Renewal)

    Julia Unwin, Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust.

    Date/Time: 22nd November 2016

  • Celebrating Student Research Scholarships and Expeditions 2016

    Free admission, all seats allocated on a first-come first-served basis. 

    Date/Time: 23rd November 2016

  • Geoengineering climate change: do two wrongs make a right?

    Professor Nicholas J P Owens, Director, The Scottish Association for Marine Science 

    Date/Time: 6th December 2016

  • The dilemmas of ageing

    Baroness Greengross, President, International Longevity Centre UK

    Date/Time: 7th December 2016

  • America in Transition: Barack Obama's legacy and Donald Trump's Prospects

    Professor Iwan Morgan. Free admission, all seats allocated on a first-come first-served basis.

    Date/Time: 31st January 2017

  • Ten years after the Stern Review on the economics of climate change: looking back, looking forward (Jubilee Development Lecture)

    Lord Stern

    Date/Time: 2nd February 2017

  • Give me sunshine (Albert Latner Memorial Lecture in Clinical Biochemistry)

    Professor Bill Fraser.

    Date/Time: Wednesday 8 February 2017

  • The courage to listen (Freedom City 2017 Lecture)

    Reverend Jeffrey L Brown.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 21 February 2017

  • 1967 and LGBT liberation (LGBT History Month Lecture)

    Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 14 February 2017

  • Lenin on the Train

    Professor Catherine Merridale FBA.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 28 February 2017

  • Citizenship and equality (Tyneside Geographical Society Lecture)

    Vera Baird QC and Sara Bryson

    Date/Time: Thursday 9 March 2017

  • Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers

    Professor Stephen Graham, Newcastle University.

    Date/Time: Thursday 2 March 2017

  • Race to the top – productivity, investment and industrial strategy in the post-Brexit world (R W Mann Lecture)

    Chi Onwurah MP.

    Date/Time: Thursday 16 March 2017

  • What is the relationship between genetics and social mobility? Implications for policy and social science

    Professor Leon Feinstein, Children’s Commissioner for England.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 21 March 2017

  • Voices and books: a new history of reading

    Professor Jennifer Richards, Newcastle University

    Date/Time: Thursday 23 March 2017

  • New voices on social renewal

    Date/Time: Tuesday 25 April 2017

  • Trump in the age of Captain America/Captain America in the age of Trump

    Professor Jason Dittmer, University College London

    Date/Time: Thursday 4 May 2017

  • Debate: Why history?

    Date/Time: Tuesday 9 May 2017

  • Dr Martin Luther King Jr: his legacy in 2017 (Convocation Lecture)

    Professor Tony Badger, Northumbria University.

    Date/Time: Saturday 17 June 2017

  • Leading the inclusive city: an international analysis

    Professor Robin Hambleton, University of the West of England.

    Date/Time: Thursday 11 May 2017

  • The dismantling of our NHS and why we need an NHS bill to reinstate it

    Professor Allyson Pollock.

  • How to launch and run a school network in Africa – an inspiring tale of repeated failure

    Date/Time: Tuesday 17 October 2017

  • People’s history in historical pageants in Britain, 1905–2016 (Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne Lecture)

    Alexander Hutton.

    Date/Time: Wednesday 25 October 2017

  • Whatever happened to our shipbuilding industry?

    Dr Paul Stott.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 7 November 2017

  • People and the land: understanding the family farm

    Professor Sally Shortall.

    Date/Time: Thursday 16 November 2017

  • Open-air landscape – the secular cathedrals of our time? (in association with the Northumberland and Newcastle Society)

    Charles Jencks.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 31 October 2017

  • Investigative film journalism and the real world

    Rob Lemkin.

    Date/Time: Thursday 23 November 2017

  • In the footsteps of Thomas Tallis

    Kerry McCarthy.

    Date/Time: Thursday 7 December 2017

  • The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: relationships and leadership in economic development

    Michael Storper.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 5 December 2017

  • New voices on science, agriculture and engineering

    Date/Time: Thursday 30 November 2017

  • Celebrating Student Research Scholarships and Expeditions 2017

    Date/Time: Wednesday 29 November 2017

  • A camp ‘full of once and future very important persons’: Fred Uhlman and Kurt Schwitters in wartime internment

    Charmian Brinson.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 28 November 2017

  • Reflecting on a life in progress and the stories of oral history

    Professor Alessandro Portelli.

    Date/Time: Wednesday 10 January 2018

  • The Speaker, Parliament and engaging with the modern democracy

    Rt Hon John Bercow MP

    Date/Time: Thursday 1 February 2018

  • Hearts and Minds: the untold story behind votes for women

    Jane Robinson.

    Date/Time: Thursday 8 February 2018

  • Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: a view from the US Civil War’s slave refugee camps

    Dr Amy Murrell Taylor.

    Date/Time: Friday 16 February 2018

  • Pride in the North (LGBT History Month Lecture)

    Mark Nichols.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 20 February 2018

  • Familial cholesterol: an underdiagnosed and undertreated disease (Albert Latner Lecture in Clinical Biochemistry)

    Professor Anne Tybjærg-Hansen.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 17 April 2018

  • The technology of space exploration (Lecture in association with the Institute of Physics)

    Dr Alton Horsfall.

    Date/Time: Thursday 19 April 2018

  • A composer’s half-century (Sophia Lecture)

    Nicola LeFanu.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 8 May 2018

  • The English origins of modern democracy

    Dr Rachel Hammersley.

    Date/Time: Thursday 3 May 2018

  • The urban landscape as a place to flourish – green space, health and quality of life

    Professor Catharine Ward Thompson.

    Date/Time: Thursday 10 May 2018

  • Pageants and the past: Kynren in context

    Dr Mark Freeman.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 15 May 2018

  • Geography’s place in the world: past, present, future (Tyneside Geographical Society Annual Lecture)

    Professor Rita Gardner CBE.

    Date/Time: Thursday 26 April 2018

  • Three tales from the biomedical frontier

    Date/Time: Thursday 17 May 2018

  • Convocation Guest Talk

    Professor Karen Ross will deliver a talk on 'NOT Acting Our Age: challenging gender stereotypes in a community-focused action project'

    Date/Time: Saturday 23 June 2018

  • ‘Gender sensitive’ cities – why should we care? (Thomas Sharp Lecture)

    Emeritus Professor Marion Roberts.

    Date/Time: Thursday 11 October 2018

  • ‘If I survive’ Frederick Douglass family’s ‘struggle for liberty’

    Professor Celeste-Marie Bernier.

    Date/Time: Thursday 18 October 2018

  • The changing landscape of political violence

    Professor Stathis Kalyvas.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 16 October 2018

  • The Royal Air Force – a centennial appraisal (Defence Lecture)

    Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 6 November 2018

  • The challenge of creating the National Museum of African American history and Culture

    Lonnie G. Bunch.

    Date/Time: Friday 2 November 2018

  • Brexit and populism: a sociological perspective

    Professor Mike Savage.

    Date/Time: Thursday 1 November 2018

  • Lecture in association with Book Trust: Staring into space with Lauren Child

    Lauren Child.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 23 October 2018

  • The Great Wall story – the way I have discovered it (Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne Lecture)

    William Lindesay OBE.

    Date/Time: Wednesday 31 October 2018

  • The Great Wall story – the way I have discovered it (Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne Lecture)

    William Lindesay OBE.

    Date/Time: Wednesday 31 October 2018

  • Health divides: where you live can kill you

    Professor Clare Bambra.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 13 November 2018

  • ‘The cock-pit of England’: violence, history and nation in Northumberland, 1750–1914 (in association with the Being Human Festival)

    Professor Paul Readman. Free admission, all seats allocated on a first-come first-served basis.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 20 November 2018, 17.30 - 18.45

    Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University

  • Celebrating Student Research Scholarships and Expeditions 2018

    Date/Time: Wednesday 21 November 2018

  • Out of the wreckage: a new politics for an age of crisis

    George Monbiot.

    Date/Time: Thursday 22 November 2018

  • The reality of climate change: increasing extreme weather hazards

    Professor Hayley Fowler.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 4 December 2018

  • New voices on arts, humanities and social sciences

    Date/Time: Tuesday 27 November 2018

  • In conversation with Antony Gormley

    Date/Time: Wednesday 21 November 2018

  • Understanding Islamophobia

    Professor Peter Hopkins.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 12 February 2019

  • Seeing homosexuality in Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw (LGBT+ History Month Lecture)

    Dr Emma Parker and Leonie Orton.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 19 February 2019

  • Uranium, the Bogeyman of the periodic table: a case of Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde?

    Professor Steve Liddle.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 26 February 2019

  • Kurt Schwitters’ Merz Barn – from there to here

    Fred Brookes.

    Date/Time: Thursday 28 February 2019

  • Childhood obesity; they should do something about that

    Professor Ashley Adamson.

    Date/Time: Thursday 7 March 2019

  • Between the living and the dead: what are the limits of remembering through oral histories?

    Professor Paula Hamilton.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 26 March 2019

  • Damsels of Defense: a story of Women, Peace and Security in changing times (Defence Lecture)

    Ambassador Clare Hutchinson.

    Date/Time: Thursday 21 March 2019

  • Brain surgery and other stories (Fickling Lecture on Developments in Children's Literature)

    Henry Marsh.

    Date/Time: Tuesday 30 April 2019

  • New voices on science, agriculture and engineering

    Date/Time: Thursday 2 May 2019