| Title |
Speaker |
Date |
Wellbeing – what is it and what causes it? |
Sir Harry Burns
Director of Global Public Health, University of Strathclyde |
17th Oct 2018 |
|
“A downright, thorough-going catastrophe”: the loss in the Arctic of the 1845 ‘Franklin Expedition’ |
Professor Keith Millar
Emeritus Professor, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow
|
31st Oct 2018 |
|
Predicting Earth’s Weather and Climate: How Certain Can We Be? |
Professor Tim Palmer
Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics, University of Oxford |
14th Nov 2018 |
|
On building a university for the common good |
Professor Tim Ingold
Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen |
28th Nov 2018 |
|
Not the End of the World, Dystopia as Nostalgia. The ongoing attraction of the apocalypse in fiction
|
Professor Louise Welsh
Professor of Creative Writing, University of Glasgow |
12th Dec 2018 |
|
Why genetic biodiversity matters and how we can best conserve it for future generations |
Professor Mike Bruford
Professor of Biodiversity, Cardiff University and Director of The Frozen Ark
|
9th Jan 2019 |
|
Genes and mental illness: what are their properties and how might discovery enhance future care |
Professor Michael O’Donovan
Deputy Director/Clinical Professor, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University |
23rd Jan 2019 |
|
The Thinking Robot |
Professor Alan Winfield
Professor of Robot Ethics, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UWE Bristol |
6th Feb 2019 |
|
East West Street: on the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity, on the individual and the group |
Professor Philippe Sands, QC
University College London and Matrix Chambers |
20th Feb 2019 |
|
Between a border and a breath: Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts |
Professor Alison Phipps
UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts
UNESCO artist-in-residence at the University of Glasgow |
6th Mar 2019
|
|
Samaritans – the theory and practice of listening
Children’s Hearing system in Scotland – from mass infanticide to compassionate care via”The Wind in the Willows”
|
Prof Jan McDonald
Dr Jeffrey Jay |
20th Mar 2019 |
|
Reconstructing the Mackintosh :
and the race between Education and Catastrophe |
Liz Davidson
Senior Project Manager |
3rd Apr 2019 |
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