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Sussex lectures archive

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• 2023 lectures
  • In Conversation with Marina Mahathir -
  • Freedom Of Speech - Can you draw a Line? -
  • Founding Historians Lecture 2023 - Dr Hunter's Plague: Photography, Gender and Disease in Nineteenth-Century India -
  • Inclusive Sussex: In Conversation with Lela Kogbara and Jane Farrell -
  • Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture 2023 ‘Radical Transparency: Reforming parole to increase public confidence’ - 
  • Inclusive Sussex: In Conversation event, featuring Professor Tom Shakespeare CBE FBA - 
  • Beyond Brexit - the future of UK trade policy -
  • Holocaust Memorial Day at Sussex 2023 - Testimony from Manfred Goldberg BEM - 
• 2022 lectures
  • Founding Historians Lecture: Voices from the Classroom: The Experience of Universal Secondary Education in the UK since 1945 - Prof Peter Mandler -
  • Can the law deliver inclusion? - Prof David Ruebain -
  • First Light with the James Webb Space Telescope - Dr Stephen Wilkins -
  • How can understanding bee behaviour improve crop pollination? - Dr Beth Nicholls - 
  • Smart Justice: Policing in the Digital Age - Prof Richard Vogler - 
  • Why you should talk to strangers - Dr Gillian Sandstrom - 
  • 'Black At Sussex' - Gavin Mensah-Coker and Valerie Kporye - 
  • Activism in Arts C: From AFRAS to Global Studies - Prof Anke Schwittay - 
  • Ask the Experts: Discussion on kindess - Claudia Hammond and panellists - 
  • Breaking Free from State Capture 'How youth, leadership and integrity can chart the best future for Africa' - Dr Mo Ibrahim, Baroness Valerie Amos, Prof. Liz David-Barrett and Pamela Wadi, chaired by Prof. Robert Barrington - 
  • Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture 2022 - Dame Vera Baird QC -
  • Discussion of the film ‘Masel Tov Cocktail’ - Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 -
  • Hella Pick CBE interview for Holocaust Memorial Day at Sussex 2022  - 
• 2021 lectures
  • Ask the Experts: Discussion on consciousness - Claudia Hammond and panellists -
  • A fossil treaty: a new approach to tackling the climate crisis - Prof Peter Newell -
  • Educating our way to a more sustainable climate - Dr Melissa Lazenby -
  • Helping our kelp: can we restore our seas? - Dr Mika Peck -
  • Founding Historians Lecture: 'Entangled histories: Britain and Jamaica in slavery days and beyond’ - Prof Catherine Hall -
  • Fatal Alliances: On the Entanglement of Antisemitic and Antifeminist Dynamics of Exclusion - Prof Katrin Steffen -
  • Ask the experts: Discussion on quantum physics - Prof. Jim Al-Khalili FRS and panellists - 
  • Where Are We With 5G And AI, And What May Come Next? - Prof. Maziar Nekovee -
  • Restless Days And Restless Nights -  Dr Faith Orchard -
  • Ask the Experts - Discussion on COVID-19 - Claudia Hammond and panellists -
  • What makes CERN special - Meirin Evans -
  • The Future of Holocaust Memory, hosted by Dr Victoria Walden with special guest panelists -
  • Holocaust Memorial Day at Sussex: Q&A with twin Holocaust survivors, George and Peter Summerfield BEM -
• 2020 lectures
  • The Future Of Observational Astronomy - panel discussion -
  • Building A Universe In A Box - Dr Christopher Lovell & Will Roper -
  • Martin Wight Memorial Lecture 2020: The decolonial project of Europe: from colonial histories to postcolonial reparations - Dr Gurminder Bhambra -
  • Euler's Amazing Constant - Dr Roger Luther -
  • Black Holes And The Hot Spaghettification Of Cool Doughnuts - Dr Darren Baskill -
  • The Wonderful World Of Wheat - Will Roper -
  • Queues = Traffic = Zombies - Dr Nicos Georgiou -
  • Crowds, Riots And Simple Social Influence: Beyond Contagion - Prof John Drury -
  • Brave New World: The Future of Work - Prof Jacqueline O'Reilly -
  • Can We Measure Consciousness? - Dr Adam Barrett -
  • The Mathematical Theory Of Knots - Dr Roger Fenn -
  • The LHC: A Ring With No Lord - Dr Iacopo Vivarelli -
  • Black Holes From The Big Bang - Dr Chris Byrnes -
  • First Light: The Search For The First Stars In The Universe - Dr Stephen Wilkins -
  • Untangling The Causes Of Alzheimer's Disease - Prof Louise Serpell -
  • An Introduction To Relativity - Dr Stephen Wilkins -
  • Will Dark Energy Destroy The Universe? - Prof Kathy Romer -
  • Dynamical Systems: Attractive and Chaotic - Prof Peter Giesl -
  • Epidemics: Untangling The Mysteries of Mathematical Modelling - Dr Yuliya Kyrychko -
  • Holocaust Memorail Day at Sussex: Surviving the Holocaust as a child - Testimony from Hannah Lewis MBE -
  • Holocaust Memorial Day at Sussex: 'Voices from the past and present – Analyzing Narratives of Persecution, Flight and Survival' - Prof Ruth Wodak -
  • Draper Lecture 2020 - Given by Justice Albie Sachs  -
  • The Origin Of The Elements - Dr Stephen Wilkins -
• 2019 lectures
  • Neutrinos: The Deep Secrets of Nature's Ghosts - Dr Elisabeth Falk - 
  • Social relationships and well-being: why kindness matters - -
  • Learn to listen - -
  • The empowering force of physics - -
  • Couplings on the run – from fundamental particles to quantum gravity - Prof Daniel Litim -
  • Dynamics and control – their role in cutting vehicle CO2 emissions - Prof Julian Dunne -
  • Queer Cultures of Conflict: Facing Heterogeneity, Fostering Queerversity (audio only) - Dr Antke Engel, The Technische Universität Darmstad - Listen here
  • Happier families: The kids (and mum & dad) are alright (audio only) - Prof Alison Pike - Listen here
  • Distant voices, living music: hearing the past and writing the present - Prof Ed Hughes -
  • Draper Lecture 2019: Human Rights and Leadership in a Lawless World - Paul van Zyl -
  • Exploring The Tiny World Of Nanomaterials - Dr Matthew Large - 

  • Holocaust Memorial Day at Sussex: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and Niklas Frank in conversation with Trudy Gold - Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and Niklas Frank -

  • Holocaust Memorial Day at Sussex: September 1939 and the Fate of Europe’s Jews - Prof Richard Overy, University of Exeter -
• 2018 lectures

  • Why the US is Not a "Nation of Immigrants" - Prof Maria Lauret - Listen here

  • A vision of successful education in Africa through the agency of research - Prof Kwame Akyeampong - Listen here

  • We had the experience but missed the meaning (Dry Salvages, T.S.Eliot): Reflecting on reflection - Prof Gillian Ruch - Listen here

  • The mathematics of epidemics on networks: taming complexity - Prof Istvan Kiss - Listen here

  • Education, conflict, war and peace: Between governance and resistance - Prof Mario Novelli - Listen here

  • Forests, famine and communities: Towards an environmental history of eastern India - Prof Vinita Damodaran - Listen here

  • ‘Food-work city’: Oral histories of and for changing places - Prof Ben Rogaly - Listen here

  • Who framed American English? - Prof Lynne Murphy -

  • Re-interpreting the Sounds of World War I - Prof Michael Bull - Listen here

  • What can we learn from humble insects to build better AI? - Prof Thomas Nowotny -

  • Running in the family: Can we help anxious parents to raise confident children? - Prof Sam Cartwright-Hatton -

  • ‘I Shall Not Hate’ - Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish - Listen here

  • Sex, gender and sexuality in Europe: Sinking in quicksand? - Prof Nuno Ferreira - Listen here

  • The road to immortality: Insights from a cancer virus - Prof Michelle West -

  • Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture 2018 - Can we have a fully integrated and equal society? Or is it just a pipe dream? - Dame Louise Casey DBE CB -

• 2017 lectures
  • Draper Lecture 2017 - Human Rights and the Politics of Compassion - Martha Spurrier, Director of Liberty  -

  • Feelings at Work in Modern Britain - Prof Claire Langhamer - Listen here

  • The Tendency of Utopia to Disappoint: Digital technologies and Future Hopes - Prof Caroline Bassett - Listen here

  • Martin Wight Memorial Lecture 2017 - Trust and Distrust in Russia: The Heritage of the October Revolution re-examined - Prof Geoffrey Hoskin OBE FBA - Listen here

  • Hic Sunt Leones – Hunting for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider - Prof Antonella De Santo - Listen here

  • Your brain on drugs: not the same everywhere - Prof Aldo Badiani - Listen here

  • The Famous Five Acting Otherwise: The Significance of Scope and Scale in Children’s Agency and Social Actorship - Prof Jo Moran-Ellis - Listen here

  • Traversing the Academy: Experimental Arts Before and After Austerity - Prof Gavin Butt - Listen here

  • Thinking through ‘family’, thinking across contexts - Prof Janet Boddy - Listen here

  • W(h)ither Public Law? - Prof Lindsay Stirton - Listen here

  • Seeing in Colour - Prof Anna Franklin - Listen here

  • Reproductive Politics in India: Giving the Body a Voice - Prof Maya Unnithan - Listen here

  • Living Standards in Britain Since the Industrial Revolution - Prof Ian Gazeley - Listen here

  • Clusters of Galaxies: The Shy Giants of the Cosmos - Prof Kathy Romer - Listen here

  • Black Holes: From Astrophysics to the Large Hadron Collider - Prof Xavier Calmet - Listen here

  • Balls, Rods and Sheets Nanoscale Building Blocks For Tomorrow’s Technologies - Prof Alan Dalton - Listen here

• 2016 lectures

  • Founding Historians Lecture 2016 - The Commonwealth and South Africa: From Smuts to Mandela - Prof Saul Dubow - Listen here

  • Britain's President, America's Prime Minister: Transatlantic Commemorations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill - Prof Clive Webb - Listen here

  • Listening Publics: Media, Modernity & Citizenship - Prof Kate Lacey - Listen here

  • Draper Lecture 2016 - The Rise of the Cyber Judge - Lord Justice Fulford -

  • The Making of an Ally: the sources and history of Israel – US Special Relations - Prof David Tal - Listen here

  • Consciousness: What in the world is it? (Making the future 2016) - Prof Anil Seth -

  • Hearing colours and tasting words: The kaleidoscopic world of synaesthesia (Making the future 2016) - Prof Jamie Ward -

  • Complex organic molecules in interstellar space (Making the future 2016) - Prof Wendy Brown -

  • Invasion and insurrection: A virus in action (Making the future 2016) - Prof Alison Sinclair -

  • Institutions: Female leadership in community governed financial organisations and financial management (Making the future 2016) - Prof John Forker -

  • Corruption and anti-corruption: The challenge of our time? (Making the future 2016) - Prof Dan Hough -

• 2015 lectures
  • Future courts and future rights. The way forward in criminal justice - Prof Richard Vogler - 
    
  • The Draper Lecture 2015 - Man's Inhumanity to Man; What Price Imprisonment -  - 
    
  • Social Work Research: Identity, Interdisciplinarity and Impact - Prof Elaine Sharland - 
    
  • Journey into the Unknown - Prof Dominic Kniveton - 
    
  • No Justice Without Care: A relational approach to children's healthcare law - Prof Jo Bridgeman - 
    
  • Founding Historians Lecture 2015: French Resistance: myths, lives and videotape - Prof Rod Kedward - 
    
  • Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture 2015: The State of Policing - - 
    
  • The eternal battle between new and old: What frogs have to say? - Prof Emmanuel Mamatzakis - 
    
  • Getting on and falling out - Prof Robin Banerjee - 
    
  • Holocaust Memorial Day - Keep the memory alive: - 
    
  • Holocaust Memorial Day - Keep the memory alive: and - 
• 2014 lectures
  • Why biomedical anthropology is crucial to political decisions about the future of life, life science and local health - Prof Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner - 
  • The Draper Lecture 2014 - On Liberty -  - 
  • A model for democratic transition and European integration? Why does Poland matter - Prof Aleks Szczerbiak - 
  • Public experiments: the science and art of scientific advice - Prof James Wilsdon - 
  • How to design new medicines - Prof Simon Ward - 
  • Alternative Societies - Prof Luke Martell - 
  • Howmanydunnit? What do crime statistics tell us, and can we trust them? - Jil Matheson, UK National Statistitian - 
  • Risks and rewards: Building symbiotic innovation eco-systems - Prof Mariana Mazzucato - 
  • Uneven and combined development - Prof Justin Rosenburg - 
  • Seventy years after the Holocaust: Why does it still matter and what have we learned? - Sir Andrew Burns KCMG, United Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues - 
  • Survival, memory and trauma - Anita Lasker-Wallfisch - 
  • Holocaust Memorial Day - Trudy Gold, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Maya Jacobs-Wallfisch - 
  • Digital childhoods - Prof Rachel Thomson - 
• 2013 lectures
  • Responsibility, childhood and the criminal law - Prof Heather Keating - 
  • Is natural gas the fuel of the future or a bridge to nowhere - Prof Jim Watson - 
  • Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture - The surrender of privacy: is the state to blame? - Lord Carlile of Berriew CBE, QC - 
  • Low-temperature physics and why it helps to run in a corridor - Debbie Hill - 
  • The rise and fall of liberal foreign policy - Prof Beate Jahn - Listen [MP3 18MB]
    
    
  • Chemical contaminants: the sexual chemistry of fish and foetal health - Prof Elizabeth Hill - Listen [MP3 27MB]
    
    
  • What actually happens to new businesses? - David Storey - Listen [MP3 16MB]
    
    
  • Art and Industrialists in late Imperial Russia - Beryl Williams -  Listen [MP3 28MB]
    
    
  • A celebration of Virginia Woolf - Sara Crangle - Listen [MP3 22MB]
    
    
  • Democracy and Empire - Prof Richard Whatmore - Listen [MP3 24MB]
    
    
  • Gone in a yoctosecond: a rough guide to the Big Bang - Prof Mark Hindmarsh - Listen [MP3 30MB]
    
    
  • Contagion: disease, security and the politics of fear - Prof Stefan Elbe - Listen [MP3 23MB]
• 2012 lectures
  • The beginnings of the sciences at the ÄûÃÊÊÓƵ - Lord Briggs - Listen [MP3 28MB]
    
    
  • The death of opera? - Prof Nicholas Till - Listen [MP3 28mb]
    
    
  • Uniting States of Americans: from ‘I am an American’ to ‘We are the 99%’ - Prof Cynthia Weber - Listen [MP3 22MB]
    
    
  • From spider silk to Alzheimer’s disease: common threads in protein assembly - Prof Louise Serpell - Listen [MP3 16MB]
    
    
  • Smoke signals from the distant universe - Prof Seb Oliver - Listen [MP3 20mb]
    
  • Spence, Sussex and the sixties - Prof Louise Campbell, University of Warwick - Listen [MP3 27MB]
    
    
  • Re-visioning the gender agenda - Prof Andrea Cornwall - Listen [MP3 19MG]
    
    
  • Making ends meet: mutual strategies for maintaining genome stability - Prof Aidan Doherty - Listen [MP3 27MG]
    
    
  • Outsourcing, offshoring and the global factory - Prof Roger Strange - Listen [MP3 24MB]
    
    
  • Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture - Nick Hardwick, CBE - Listen [MP3 21MB]
    
    
  • The arts of looking - Prof Vicky Lebeau - Listen [MP3 19MB]
    
    
  • Professorial lecture: Robots like us - Prof Owen Holland - Listen [MP3 22MB]
    
    
  • Professorial lecture: Connect-disconnect: stories from the jagged edge - Prof Katy Gardner - Listen [MP3 22MB]
• 2011 lectures
  • Professorial Lecture: Blowing in the wind: desert dust in the Earth's climate system - Prof Martin Todd - Listen [MP3 25 MB]
    
    
  • Serotonin, satiety and the challenge of obesity - Prof Pete Clifton - Listen [MP3 28MB]
    
    
  • Issues in Criminal Justics Lecture: Reforms in criminal justice - Nick Herbert MP - Minister of State for Policing and Criminal Justice - Listen [MP3 23M]
    
    
  • The art of the possible - Prof Peter Boxall - Listen [MP3 27MB]
    
    
  • Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture: Rape, a unique crime? - Baroness Stern CBE - Listen [MP3 15MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Prophecy, prediction, approximation and computation - Prof Erik Burman - Listen [MP3 21MB]
    
    
  • Asa Briggs in converstion with Michael Farthing, plus Q&A session - Asa Briggs and Michael Farthing - Listen [MP3 31MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: The Republican Party and the secession crisis of 1860-61 - Prof Robert Cook - Listen [MP3 24MB]
    
    
  • Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture: Privy Council and death penalty - a buried treasure of jurispridence - Edward Fitzgerald CBE QC - Listen [MP3 26MB]
    
    
  • David Miliband in conversation with Tim Bale, plus Q&A session - David Miliband and Tim Bale - Listen [MP3 27MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Can we really abolish child poverty in Britain? - Prof Richard Dickens - Listen [MP3 20MB]
    
    
  • Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture - Kier Starmer QC - Listen [MP3 15MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Byzantine Art, all that glitters is gold - Prof Liz James - Listen [MP3 23MB]
    
  • Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture - Dominic Grieve QC MP - Listen [MP3 21MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture : Challenges of producing cleaner energy from gasified coal and solid waste - Prof Abdulnaser Sayma - Listen [MP3 24MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Symmetries, scales and the origin of everything - Prof Philip Harris - Listen [MP3 25MB]
    
    
  • ÄûÃÊÊÓƵ Lecture 2011: Theatre, Live Art and the Skenabiotope - Prof Sally Jane Norman - Listen [MP3. 18MB]
• 2010 lectures
  • Founding Historians’ Lecture - Liberalism and empire - Prof Richard Price - Listen [MP3 28MB]
    
    
  • Which way is progress? Adventures in science, technology and democracy - Prof Andrew Stirling - Listen [MP3 19MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: The world as it is in itself - Prof Michael Morris - Listen [MP3 23MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Computer processing of human language: finding meaning in the digital world - Prof John Carroll - Listen [MP3 24MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Colour through animal eyes - Prof Daniel Osorio - Listen [MP3 23MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: A twisted tale of memory research: how the humble snail helps us to understand how we learn and remember - Prof George Kemenes - Listen [MP3 29MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Imagining the university of the future - Prof Louise Morley - Listen [MP3 23MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Queer as fish - Prof Sally R. Munt - Listen [MP3 21MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Can science and politics help keep each other honest? - Prof Erik Millstone - Listen [MP3 30MB]
    
    
  • Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture: Memoirs of a radical lawyer - Michael Mansfield QC - Listen [MP3 27MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Making tea is not a piece of cake - Prof Jennifer Rusted - Listen [MP3 33MB]
    
    
  • Sackler Centre for Conciousness Science Lecture: What is consciousness for? Prof Chris Frith, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London - Listen [MP3 20MB]
    
    
  • Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture: Criminal law and bureaucracy: has it all gone too far? - Prof Jeremy Horder, Criminal Law Commissioner, Law Commission for England and Wales - Listen [MP3 24MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Social work, law and the art of navigation - Prof Suzy Braye - Listen [MP3 13MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Paying the price for sugar and spice? How women and girls are kept out of mathematics and science - Prof Jo Boaler - Listen [MP3 21MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Rights politics, legal mobilization and gender equality in Europe - Prof Susan Millns - Listen [MP3 24MB]
    
    
  • Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture: Delivering an excellent public prosecution service - Rt Hon Baroness Scotland QC - Listen [MP3 19MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Economic growth, ubanisation and spatial inequality: can Asian successes translate to other regions? - Prof Andy McKay - Listen [MP3 19MB]
    
    
  • ÄûÃÊÊÓƵ Lecture 2010: The 300 million year war - Prof Sue Hartley - Listen [MP3. 17MB]
• 2009 lectures 
  • Professorial Lecture: No love for the Jewish people? Hannah Arendt's 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' revisited - Prof Christian Wiese - Listen [MP3 24MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Breaking and repairing human genes: A question of balance - Prof Keith Caldecott - Listen [MP3 24MB]
    
    
  • Professorial lecture: The mind/body problem in health and illness - Pro Gillian Bendelow - Listen [MP3 24MB]
    
    
  • Professorial lecture: Talk-stoppers, converstion and Victorian fiction - Prof Jenny Bourne Taylor - Listen [MP3 17MB]
    
    
  • Professorial lecture: Strangers and citizens - A journey between cultures, disciplines and ideologies - Prof Barbara Einhorn - Listen [MP3 26MB]
    
    
  • Professorial lecture: Telling stories about nature - with mathematics - Prof David Waxman - Listen [MP3 18MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Can Human Society Learn from Insect Society? - Prof Francis L. W. Ratnieks - Listen [MP3 61MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Why science policy research? - Prof Ben R. Martin - Listen [MP3 43MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: The EU and terrorism: a common threat and a common response? - Prof Jorg Monar - Listen [MP3 23MB]
    
    
  • Professorial lecture: Communicating knowledge - Prof Ed Steinmueller - Listen [MP3 34MB]
    
    
  • ÄûÃÊÊÓƵ Lecture 2009: Deciphering the Universe - Prof Andrew Liddle - Listen [MP3. 13.6MB]
• 2008 lectures
  • Professorial Lecture: Bibliophobia - Prof Brian Cummings - Listen [MP3 56MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: 'I think I might even make a film…’: Francis Bacon; cinema, photography and fantasy - Prof David Mellor - Listen [MP3 24MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Simulating the universe: computer models of large-scale structure - Prof Peter Thomas - Listen MP3 45MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Human Mutations: the good, the bad and the indifferent - Prof Adam Eyre-Walker - Listen [MP3 46MB]
    
    
  • Renaming of Arts, A1, A2 lecture theatres in honour of Asa Briggs - Part 2: Introduction by Prof Peter Burke followed by Lord Briggs renaming ceremony and speech - Lord Briggs - Watch video (Quicktime streaming video)
    
    
  • Renaming of Arts, A1, A2 lecture theatres in honour of Asa Briggs - Part 1: How religion has shaped secular scoiety - Prof Knud Haakonssen - Watch video (Quicktime streaming video)
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: European integration and representative politics - Prof Paul Taggart - Listen [MP3 8MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Innovation in East Asia: its Time for a New Policy Agenda - Prof Michael Hobday - Listen [MP3 15MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 16MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: The flame of life - teaching old enzymes new tricks - Prof Andrew Smith - Listen [MP3 17MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Atrocity, apostacy and apocalypse: Newton’s radical heresy in the digital age - Prof Robert Iliffe - Listen [MP3 14MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Graphite – a new twist - Prof Malcolm I. Heggie - Listen [MP3 12MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Reading comprehension: losing the thread - Prof Jane Oakhill -  Listen [MP3 15MB]
    
    
  • ÄûÃÊÊÓƵ Lecture 2008: Energy, climate change and nuclear power - Prof Gordon MacKerron - Quicktime streaming video.
• 2007 lectures
  • Professorial Lecture: Regionalism and Deep Integration - Prof Jim Rollo - Listen [MP3 10MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 5MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: From Ritual to Rights, or Dancing in the Archives - Prof Jane K. Cowan - Listen [MP3 15MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 16MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Perspectives within the EU: diversity or double vision? - Prof Keith Middlemas, Emeritus Professor - Listen [MP3 11MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Fingerprinting the Universe - Prof Andrew Liddle - Listen [MP3 13MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 3MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Protecting indigenous peoples in the British Empire - ProfAlan Lester - Listen [MP3 20MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 84KB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: The state in the era of globalisation - Prof Ronen Palan, Professor of International Relations and Politics - School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies - Listen [MP3 10MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 365KB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Alcohol: A simple molecule with complex consequences for emotion and behaviour - Prof Theordora Duka - watch video (Quicktime)
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Reality literature - Prof Nicholas Royle - Listen [MP3 11MB]
    
    
  • Brighton and Sussex Medical School Inagural Lecture: Ethics, Life and Work - getting the balance right - Prof Bobbie Farsides - Listen [MP3 7MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Buildings for nation and locality in Tudor and Jacobean England - Prof Maurice Howard - Listen [MP3 12MB]
    
    
  • A lecture celebrating the work of Michael Eraut and the refurbishment of the Chichester Lecture Theatre: Professional Learning in the Workplace - Prof Michael Eraut - Listen [MP3 12MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 9MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Transnational Classes and Global Political Economy - Prof Kees Van Der Pijl - Listen [MP3 3MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 2MB]
    
    
  • ÄûÃÊÊÓƵ Lecture 2007: A certain idea of Europe: can European integration survive eastern enlargement - Prof Alan Mayhew - Listen [MP3 16MB] or view presentation slides [PDF. 76KB].
• 2006 lectures
  • Professorial Lecture: Hot Design - Prof Peter Childs - View presentation slides [PDF 2MB]
    
    
  • Founding Historians’ Lecture: Europe at war, 1939-45: not freedom’s victory - Prof Norman Davies, Professor Emeritus, University of London; Supernumerary Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford; Honorary D. Litt, ÄûÃÊÊÓƵ - Listen [MP3 15MB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: Potential drivers of economic development in the 21st century - Prof Sherman Robinson - Listen [MP3 10MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 276KB]
    
    
  • Professorial Lecture: International law and the 'new' terrorism - Prof Craig Barker - Listen [MP3 7MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 82KB]
    
    
  • ÄûÃÊÊÓƵ Lecture 2006: The One Percent World - Managing the Myth of Religious Extremism - Prof Shamit Sagga - view presentation slides [PDF. 40KB]
• 2005 lectures

  Professorial Lecture: Migrants, Refugees and Public Policy - Prof Richard Black - Flash slideshow

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