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2016-2017

215th Session: Lecture Programme

Title Speaker Date
The philosophy of realistic medicine Dr Catherine Calderwood

5th Oct 2016
The Ark before Noah

Dr Irving Finkel 19th Oct 2016
From margins to mainstream:               transforming policy responses to violence against women in Scotland Dr Lily Greenan

2nd Nov 2016
Gravitational wave observations – a        new astronomy Prof. Sheila Rowan  16th Nov 2016
Glasgow’s Miles Better? a personal  view Ms Jean McFadden

30th Nov 2016
Does forensic science have a future?

 

Prof. Niamh Nic Daéid

14th Dec 2017
The sheer waste of late twentieth  century academic philosophy Sir Anthony Seldon

11th Jan 2017
Knowledge, nudge or nanny: how can we improve the nation’s diet? Prof. Susan Jebb

25th Jan 2017
Freedom in a dangerous world
Lord Macdonald

8th Feb 2017
Landing on a comet Prof. Monica Grady

22nd Feb 2017
‘As little known as Kamschatka’: Thomas Pennant’s Scottish Tours Prof. Nigel Leask

8th Mar 2017
The Reformation, half a millennium later Rev Prof. Diarmaid Macculloch

22nd Mar 2017
Graphene: physics, technology and  challenges

 

Prof. Laurence Eaves

5th April 2017
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