Lady Margaret Lectures


2009-03-11 17:15: Darwin and Genetics: 1909 and 2009 (Professor Marsha Richmond, Dept of History, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan)

2009-04-22 17:15: Charles Darwin and the pattern of evolution (Professor Richard Fortey FRS)

2009-05-06 17:15: Socrates versus Darwin (Professor David Sedley FBA)

2009-10-28 17:30: Cancer as a Darwinian Process (Professor Ron Laskey FRS)

2009-11-18 17:30: Blind to the Obvious:  the Resistance to Neo-Darwinian Sociology. (W G Runciman)

2010-03-03 17:30: Hearing God: an anthropological look at American evangelical Christianity (Professor Tanya Luhrmann)

2010-10-20 17:30: 'Infections and Cancer - Results and some Perspectives' (Professor Harald zur Hausen)

2011-02-02 17:30: Strategic Behavior and the Science of Social Networks (Professor Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania)

2011-03-09 18:00: This Time it Will be Different (Sir Rodric Braithwaite GCMG)

2011-10-12 18:00: Evolution of Darwin’s Finches: the role of genetics, ecology and behaviour (Professor Rosemary Grant FRS, Princeton University)

2012-02-01 17:30: War and Peace: The Reality.  How and Why Russia Defeated Napoleon (Professor Dominic Lieven FBA)

2012-05-02 17:30: Computational Environment Design for Online Communities (Professor David Parkes, Harvard University)

2012-10-24 17:30: Preventing cancer with vaccines: progress in the global control of cancer (Dr Mark Kane)

2013-03-06 17:30: Why "shaken but not stirred"? (Professor Richard Zare, Stanford University)

2014-01-22 17:30: Troubled by Culture: Global Reflections in a World of Change (Professor Aida Hernandez, Dr Susan Bayly and Professor Sarah Radcliffe)

2014-03-05 17:30: The Nation's Hidden Art College Revealed (Andrew Ellis, Director of the Public Catalogue Foundation)

2014-10-22 17:30: How governing has become harder-- the increasing external, and self-imposed constraints on governments (The Rt Hon Peter Riddell CBE)

2014-11-05 17:30: The Great War and the British Problem, 1914-2014 (Professor David Reynolds)

2016-01-27 17:30: Cancer by the Numbers (Professor Simon Tavaré)

2016-03-02 17:30: Democracy and its Discontents (Professor John Shattuck, Central European University)

2016-11-09 17:30: Global Geology and the Tectonics of Empire (Professor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge)

2018-10-24 17:30: Elimination of Cervical Cancer by 2050: reality or wishful thinking (Professor Margaret Stanley OBE)

2019-01-30 17:30: Getting the American Model Right:  State Constitutional Revision and the Achievement of General Laws in the Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S. (Professor Naomi Lamoreaux - Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics & History - Yale University)

2019-10-30 17:30: Wataching Molecules in Action (Professor Sir David Klenerman FRS FMedSci, Christ's College)

2020-02-26 17:30: On Not Writing Poetry at the Brasserie Lipp (Professor Sir Michael Edwards OBE)

2023-01-30 17:30: Lord Kelvin, First Baron of Largs: A Father of the Digital Age? (Professor Mark Girolami FREng GRSE)