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The Gifford Lectures
For over a century, the Gifford Lectures have enabled international scholars to contribute to the advancement of theological and philosophical thought.
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Playlist and podcast content
Our video playlist and video and audio podcasts feature all of the Gifford lectures held at the University since May 2009.
- Professor Bruno Latour
- 'Once Out of Nature' - Natural Religion as a Pleonasm (18 February 2013; 1 hour 15 minutes)
- A shift in agency - with apologies to David Hume (19 February 2013; 1 hour 20 minutes)
- The puzzling face of a secular Gaia (21 February 2013; 1 hour 19 minutes)
- The Anthropocene and the Destruction of the Image of the Globe (25 February 2013; 1 hour 14 minutes)
- War of the Worlds: Humans against Earthbound (26 February 2013; 1 hour 28 minutes)
- Inside the 'Planetary Boundaries': Gaia's Estate (28 February 2013; 1 hour 15 minutes)
- Professor Jim Al-Khalili
- Alan Turing: Legacy of a Code Breaker (10 May 2012; 1 hour, 2 minutes)
- Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Voices and Silence in Tanakh and Christian New Testament (23 April 2012; 1 hour, 7 minutes)
- Catholic Christianity and the Arrival of Ascetism, 100-400 (24 April 2012;1 hour, 14 minutes)
- Silence Through Schism and Two Reformations: 451-1500 (26 April 2012;1 hour, 17 minutes)
- Silence Transformed: the Third Reformation 1500-1700 (30 April 2012;1 hour, 4 minutes)
- Getting Behind Noise in Christian History (1 May 2012; 1 hour, 17 minutes)
- Silence in Modern and Future Christianities (3 May 2012; 1 hour, 1 minute)
- Lord Sutherland
- David Hume and Civil Society (25 October 2011; 1 hour, 16 minutes)
- The Rt Hon Gordon Brown
- The Future of Jobs and Justice (19 April 2011; 1 hour, 18 minutes)
- Professor Peter Harrison
- The Territories of Science and Religion (14 February 2011; 1 hour, 13 minutes)
- The Cosmos and the Religious Quest (15 February 2011; 1 hour, 2 minutes)
- The Disenchantment of the World (17 February 2011; 1 hour, 5 minutes)
- Fallen Knowledge (21 February 2011; 1 hour, 8 minutes)
- Science and Progress (22 February 2011; 1 hour, 18 minutes)
- Religion and the Future of Science (24 February 2011; 1 hour, 10 minutes)
- Professor Patricia Churchland
- Morality and the Mammalian Brain (11 May 2010; 1 hour, 14 minutes)
- Professor Terry Eagleton
- The God Debate (1 March 2010; 1 hour, 2 minutes)
- Professor Michael S Gazzaniga
- What We Are (12 October 2009; 1 hour, 8 minutes)
- The Distributed Networks of Mind (13 October 2009; 1 hour, 15 minutes)
- The Interpreter (15 October 2009; 1 hour, 19 minutes)
- Free Yet Determined and Constrained (19 October 2009; 1 hour, 11 minutes)
- The Social Brain (20 October 2009; 1 hour, 2 minutes)
- We Are the Law (22 October 2009; 1 hour, 2 minutes)
- Professor Diana Eck
- Globalization and Religious Pluralism (27 April 2009; 1 hour, 22 minutes)
- The New Cosmopolis: Cities and the Realities of Religious Pluralism (28 April 2009; 1 hour, 12 minutes)
- The Civic Perspective: Citizens, Nations, and the Challenges of Religious Pluralism (30 April 2009; 1 hour, 28 minutes)
- Religious Views of Religious Pluralism I (4 May 2009; 1 hour, 9 minutes)
- Religious Views of Religious Pluralism II (5 May 2009; 1 hour, 19 minutes)
- The Pluralism Within (7 May 2009; 1 hour, 11 minutes)
This article was published on Mar 4, 2013