Lectures on Polar matters.
Lectures are usually held in the lecture theatre at the Scott Polar Research Institute.
Lectures are free to members, non-members are very welcome.
There is no need to pre-book tickets, unless stated so in the lecture description.
For details of how to join the Friends please see the link to the left (under Friends of SPRI ).
Please check details below, some lectures may be at different times, locations or be charged at a different rate.
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👤 Brad Borkan
📅 Thursday 11 October 2018, 18:00-19:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
⚠️ Doors open 5.30pm
👤 Dr. Ursula Rack
📅 Wednesday 11 April 2018, 18:00-19:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
⚠️ doors open at 4pm
👤 Michael Smith
📅 Saturday 17 March 2018, 16:30-17:30
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Charles Moseley
📅 Tuesday 24 May 2016, 17:30-19:30
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Dr Gareth Rees
📅 Saturday 24 October 2015, 19:30-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Bob Headland
📅 Saturday 10 October 2015, 19:30-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Stephen Pax Leonard
📅 Saturday 14 March 2015, 19:30-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Colin Summerhayes
📅 Saturday 28 February 2015, 19:30-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Susanna Ferrar: "Stuff: what good is an Antarctic Heritage?"
📅 Saturday 25 October 2014, 19:30-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
⚠️ This is a normal lecture in the lecture series - and not a special ticketed event as advertised in Polar Bytes 69.
👤 ‘The Life and Work of MacDonald Gill: mapmaker and artist ’ by Caroline Walker, Andrew Johnston and Angela Johnston
📅 Saturday 22 March 2014, 19:30-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Submarines in the Arctic: four decades of pack ice and the Royal Navy by Dr Charles Swithinbank, Prof Peter Wadhams and Dr Nick Hughes
📅 Saturday 22 February 2014, 19:30-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 British Antarctic Survey Aviation by Rod Arnold
📅 Saturday 23 November 2013, 19:30-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Special lecture for AGM Day
📅 Saturday 09 November 2013, 16:00-17:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Operation Tabarin by John Dudeney
📅 Saturday 26 October 2013, 19:30-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Exotic terrestrial mammals in Antarctic regions by Bob Headland
📅 Saturday 12 October 2013, 19:30-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 'DROMLAN: a travelogue, A personal experience of the Dronning Maud Land Air Network (DROMLAN) in the austral spring of 2004' by Peter Clarkson.
📅 Saturday 23 March 2013, 19:30-00:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 'Discovering Bellingshausen' by Rip Bulkeley
📅 Saturday 09 March 2013, 19:30-00:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 'The Sirius Dog Sledge Patrol' by Lieutenant Commander John S Ash
📅 Saturday 23 February 2013, 19:30-00:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 'Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins' by Gavin Francis
📅 Saturday 09 February 2013, 19:30-00:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
⚠️ Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start
👤 By Wind Power Across Antarctica by Ramon Larramendi
📅 Saturday 24 November 2012, 19:30-00:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
⚠️ Doors open at 3pm for a 3:30pm start - note this is an afternoon talk and will finish at approx. 5pm
👤 Frozen Planet - the making of the TV Series by Vanessa Berlowitz
📅 Saturday 10 November 2012, 15:30-17:00
📍 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre at the Department of Chemistry (off the SPRI car park)
⚠️ Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start
👤 Henry 'Birdie' Bowers - Captain Scott's Marvel by Anne Strathie
📅 Saturday 27 October 2012, 19:30-00:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
⚠️ Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start
👤 The Third Reich in Antarctica – the story of the Third German Antarctic Expedition of 1938-39 by Colin Summerhayes
📅 Saturday 13 October 2012, 19:30-00:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
⚠️ For lunch attendees only - pre-booking required
👤 In the spirit of Scott. by Lt. Col. Edwards
📅 Saturday 14 July 2012, 12:30-00:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
⚠️ Lent Term Lecture 4
👤 Robert Burton
📅 Saturday 17 March 2012, 19:30-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
⚠️ Lent Term Lecture 3
👤 David Baillie
📅 Saturday 10 March 2012, 18:45-00:00
📍 Trinity House, London
⚠️ Please note the earlier start time. Lent Term Lecture 2
👤 Gareth Rees
📅 Saturday 25 February 2012, 17:30-19:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
⚠️ Lent Term Lecture 1
👤 Dr Lewis Halsey
📅 Saturday 11 February 2012, 19:30-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
⚠️ Please note earlier start time. Doors open at 18:30. A chance to preview the These Rough Notes exhibition.
👤 Dr Peter Donaldson
📅 Tuesday 06 December 2011, 19:00-20:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Melanie Challenger
📅 Saturday 26 November 2011, 20:00-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Various Speakers
📅 Saturday 29 October 2011, 10:15-15:45
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Angie Butler (Author)
📅 Saturday 15 October 2011, 20:00-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Dr Jonathan L. Watkins, BAS
📅 Saturday 26 March 2011, 20:00-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Bryan Lintott, SPRI
📅 Saturday 12 March 2011, 20:00-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Dr Mike Sparrow - SCAR
📅 Saturday 26 February 2011, 20:00-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Bryan Lintott - SPRI
📅 Thursday 17 February 2011, 20:00-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
👤 Professor John Turner - BAS
📅 Saturday 12 February 2011, 20:00-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
⚠️ Doors open 7:30PM
👤 Robin Back, Chairman, Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute
📅 Saturday 20 November 2010, 20:00-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
⚠️ Unique first preview of the digitally remastered, official record of Scott's Terra Nova expedition 1910-13
👤 Bryony Dixon, Curator Silent Film, British Film Institute
📅 Saturday 13 November 2010, 16:00-18:00
📍 BMS Lecture Theatre, School of Chemistry, Lensfield Road
⚠️ Doors open 7:30PM
👤 Dr. Colin Summerhayes, a marine geologist, is a past Director of the UK's Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory and a former Deputy Director of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.
📅 Saturday 30 October 2010, 20:00-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
⚠️ Doors open 7:30PM
👤 Jim McNeill, Explorer and Adventure Travel organiser
📅 Saturday 16 October 2010, 20:00-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
⚠️ Free lecture in conjunction with South Georgia Association
👤 Robert Headland, Scott Polar Research Institute and South Georgia Association
📅 Saturday 20 March 2010, 20:00-21:00
📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, School of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge
⚠️ Free Lecture
👤 Fiona Cahill BA(Hons)
📅 Saturday 06 March 2010, 20:00-21:00
📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, School of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge
⚠️ For non-members of the Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute, there is an entry fee of £5 payable at the door.
👤 Paul Goldstein
📅 Saturday 20 February 2010, 20:00-21:00
📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, School of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge
⚠️ Free Lecture
👤 Isobel Williams, Doctor and Biographer
📅 Saturday 06 February 2010, 20:00-21:00
📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, School of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge
⚠️ Copies of Dr.Wilson's book for sale at this event. Doors open 19:30:
👤 Dr. David Wilson
📅 Saturday 28 November 2009, 20:00-21:00
📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, School of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge
👤 Professor Elizabeth Morris
📅 Saturday 25 November 2006, 20:00-21:00
📍 SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road
⚠️ Tickets £12.50, available in advance from the Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road
👤 Ranulph Fiennes
📅 Saturday 11 November 2006, 17:00-18:00
📍 BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry
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Brad Borkan.
Thursday 11 October 2018, 18:00-19:00
