Conferences
Public Lectures : Politics
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.
9th May 2013
17:30 - 19:00
King's Hall, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
Michael J Sandel, Harvard University
Lord Patten Lecture on Social Renewal
Free to attend, open to all
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
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
19th February 2013
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
What future for the Eurozone?
Lord Eatwell, President of Queens' College, University of Cambridge
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
5th February 2013
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
MI5 from the Kaiser to Al-Qaeda
Christopher Andrew, Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Cambridge University
Free admission, no pre-booking required
In association with the British Scholar Society
21st November 2012
17:30 - 19:00
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Celebrating student research scholarships and expeditions 2012
Free admission, no pre-booking required
