Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site


2010-01-29 15:30: Positive psychology and positive education (Prof. Martin Seligman (University of Pennsylvania; former president, American Psychological Association))

2010-02-23 20:00: The master pupeteer: how the barin controls the body (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-03-12 19:30: What's the risk of getting out of bed? (Professor David Spiegelhalter)

2010-03-16 20:00: Technology is what makes us human (Tim Hunkin)

2010-03-18 20:00: LaughLab (Professor Richard Wiseman)

2010-03-19 18:00: The master puppeteer: how the brain controls the body (Professor Daniel Wolpert)

2010-04-17 14:00: Power for the People: how materials science can save the world (Rob Wallach, Director of Science and Engineering Experiments for Kids (SEEK), Senior Lecturer in Materials Science, and Fellow of King's College)

2010-10-23 11:30: Jacqueline Wilson at the Festival of Ideas (Jacqueline Wilson, children's author)

2011-03-18 17:00: Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture 2011 - by Professor Brian Greene (Professor Brian Greene)

2011-06-20 17:30: Mr Keynes and the Moderns (Prof Paul Krugman, Princeton University)

2012-03-16 17:00: Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture 2012 (Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE, University of Surrey)

2013-02-08 13:00: Tim Peake: ESA Astronaut (European Space Agency)

2013-03-15 17:00: Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture 2013 (Professor Frank Close OBE, University of Oxford)

2025-01-23 17:30: Film premiere: European premiere of Pantanal (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-10-23 15:30: How scientific plurality and sociality enhance scientific objectivity (Helen Longino (Stanford University))