Recent Lectures 2009-10
The Victoria Hall
September
29 Symmetry
Mark Ronan, Honorary Professor of mathmatics at UCL. Author of Symmetry and the Monster.
October
06 Friends and Rivals
Philippa Simpson, co-curator of the Tate exhibition Turner and the Masters
13 Dr Aslam and Miss Hai
Yasmin Hai, journalist and television director
20 The Antikythera Mechanism: an ancient Greek astronomical wonder
Mike Edmunds, Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University
27 The Decline and Fall of the British Empire
Piers Brendon, historian and biographer, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge
November
03 George Eliot: a woman in love
Brenda Maddox, journalist and biographer
10 The Genealogy of Liberty
Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London
17 Reflections of a Rock Biographer
Philip Norman, journalist, novelist and biographer
24 An Exploration of the Current State of Theatre in London
Paul Ibell, writer and lecturer, author of Theatreland: A Journey through the Heart of London's Theatre
December 2009
01 Lady Randolph Churchill
Anne Sebba, journalist and biographer
08 Climate of Corruption: the heart of Kenya's crisis
Michela Wrong, journalist, Africa correspondent, author of It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower
15 A View from the Foothills: my House of Commons diaries
Chris Mullin, politician and diarist
January 2010
12 The Beneficial Use of Genetic Information CANCELLED please note this lecture will be rescheduled at a later date.
Bernadette Modell, Emeritus Professor of Community Genetics, University College London
19 Critical Environmental Hazards: tsunamis, hurricanes and sunspots
Julian Hunt, Professor of Climate Modelling in the Department of Earth Sciences, University College London
Budgett-Meakin lecture
26 Planning for the Healt
