Upcoming Public Lectures
Showing 1 to 10 of 20.
Pages: 1 2 Next
Wednesday, 9th October 2013
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
India Grows at Night: a liberal case for a strong state
Gurcharan Das, bestselling author and journalist
Free admission, no pre-booking required.
Thursday, 10th October 2013
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
From Syria to Scotland: geopolitics in today's world
Sir Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Defence Lecture
Free admission, no pre-booking required.
Tuesday, 15th October 2013
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Bioorthogonal chemistry, an enabling tool for biology and drug development
Professor Carolyn Bertozzi, University of California, Berkeley
Wynne-Jones Memorial Lecture
Free admission, no pre-booking required.
Thursday, 17th October 2013
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Travelling with Elizabeth Bishop
Linda Anderson, Professor of Modern English and American Literature, Newcastle University
Free admission, no pre-booking required.
Tuesday, 22nd October 2013
5:30PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
T Dan Smith – hero or villain?
Chris Foote Wood, journalist, broadcaster, author; North East councillor
Free admission, no pre-booking required.
Thursday, 24th October 2013
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Scaffolding and care
Camila Batmanghelidjh, Founder and Chief Executive of Kids Company
Sophia Lecture
Free admission, no pre-booking required.
Saturday, 26th October 2013
12:15PM - 1:15PM
The Sage Gateshead
BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking Festival of Ideas
Professor Sally Davies
Tuesday, 29th October 2013
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
The renaissance in British co-operative activity: a history of the Co-operative Group, 1863–2013
Professor John Wilson, Director, Newcastle University Business School
Free admission, no pre-booking required.
Wednesday, 30th October 2013
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
A broad field: antiquarianism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century
Dr David Clarke, former Keeper of Archaeology at the National Museums of Scotland
Tuesday, 5th November 2013
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Doctors aren’t what they used to be
Professor Sir Peter Rubin, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham
