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Public Lectures : History

 

15th June 2013

15:45 - 17:00 Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Convocation Lecture: The Spanish Holocaust – Violence against Civilians 1931-1975
Professor Paul Preston, CBE, FBA

Please note: this lecture is free to attend and open to all, but you are asked to pre-register for spaces by contacting Kay Mason by e-mail: kay.mason@ncl.ac.uk or telephone: 0191 222 3559.



 

7th May 2013

17:30 - 18:30 Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
*EVENT CANCELLED* The Sacred Shore
Ronald Blythe, writer, essayist and editor

Please note that this event has unfortunately been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances. We apologise for the short notice and any inconvenience caused.



 

23rd April 2013

17:30 - 18:30 Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
Beyond the Millennium Development Goals: charting a course for a fairer world
Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

Inaugural Newcastle Jubilee Development Lecture

Free admission, no pre-booking required



 

16th April 2013

17:30 - 18:30 Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
Alexander the Great: cross-dressing conqueror of the world?
Tony Spawforth, Professor of Ancient History, Newcastle University
Free admission, no pre-booking required


 
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14th March 2013

17:30 - 18:30 Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
The Generation of Memory: Gender and the Popular Memory of the Second World War in Britain
Professor Penny Summerfield, Manchester University
Free admission, no pre-booking required


 

7th March 2013

17:30 - 18:30 Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
Main trends in Portuguese foreign policy since 1974
His Excellency Mr João de Vallera, Ambassador of Portugal to the United Kingdom
Free admission, no pre-booking required


 

28th February 2013

17:30 - 18:30 Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
Eliminating war in the twenty-first century
Bruce Kent, Vice-President of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Co-founder of the Movement for the Abolition of War and Vice-President of Pax Christi

Free admission, no pre-booking required

Tyneside Geographical Lecture



 

27th February 2013

18:00 - 19:00 Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
Newcastle in 1813: a Society in its context
Bill Purdue, Visiting Professor in History, Northumbria University

free admission, no pre-booking required

Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne Lecture



 
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21st February 2013

17:30 - 18:30 Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
Why Rousseau was Wrong: Christianity and the Secular Soul
The Very Reverend Dr Frances Ward, Dean of St Edmundsbury, Bury St Edmunds

Free admission, no pre-booking required

Chaplaincy Lecture



 
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14th February 2013

17:30 - 18:30 Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
Sexual rights and wrongs in Southern and Eastern Africa
Oliver Phillips, Reader in Law, University of Westminster, and Board Member, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission

Free admission, no pre-booking required

LGBT History Month Lecture



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