17 January 2009, 6 pm
To celebrate the start of the University's centenary, John Binsted, Convenor of the US West Coast Branch of Convocation, organised a repeat of his successful event held earlier in 2008.
23 January 2009, 6 pm
Professor David Ellwood (Dean of the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University) gave a talk on the next generation of social policy.
12 February 2009, 4.30 pm
Meghnad Desai, one of the world’s leading development economists, is a Professor Emeritus at the London School of Economics and a member of the House of Lords. At the LSE, Professor Desai has been Director of the Development Studies Institute and was the Founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance.
12 February 2009, 6 pm
Jonathan Kestenbaum (Chief Executive of NESTA) on transforming the UK’s capacity for innovation.
23 February 2009, 6 pm
Professor Mona Siddiqui, FRSE, FRSA, (Professor of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding, University of Glasgow) gave a lecture on Christian-Muslim relations.
26 February 2009, 6 pm
Professor Leoard Susskind (Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics, Stanford University) gave a lecture on Darwin.
3 March 2009, 7 pm
Internationally acclaimed British concert organist, Jennifer Bate (BA Music 1966, Hon DMus 2007) gave a recital and illustrated lecture describing the evolution of the organ in the UK and Europe.
5 March 2009, 6.30 pm
Niall McCann (BSc 2004) gave an illustrated lecture in London about what it takes to row across the Atlantic Ocean.
10 March 2009, 7.30 pm
Are you stressed out? Stress-related disease is a rapidly increasing feature of our society, but the ways in which stress actually leads to illness remain very unclear. Discover more with Professor Stafford Lightman, Professor of Medicine.
11 March 2009, 6 pm
Kate Gilmore (Executive Deputy Secretary General, Amnesty International) on Safeguarding human rights