Inaugural lectures | Lecture series | Video and audio
Each year the University hosts a series of inaugural lectures given by Professors or Chairs newly appointed by the University.
The speakers give an illuminating overview of their contribution to their field.
Video playlist
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- Prof Brian Stanley
- Edinburgh and World Christianity
- Prof David Robertson
- Programming the Social Computer
- Prof Vincent Danos
- Information Carriers in Biomolecular Networks
- Prof James Smith
- Can the Future Make Poverty History? The Promise of Science for International Development
- Prof Richard Williams
- Globalization's Spectacular Ruins
- Prof Jake Ansell
- Myth and Risk
- Prof Stephen Cairns
- The Architect Designs Everything from the Spoon to the City, and Other Urban Myths
- Prof Clive Bonsall
- Farmers, Floods and River Gods: What happened at the Iron Gates of the Danube between 6300 and 6000 BC?
- Prof Leonid Libkin
- Separating possible from impossible, or why practical computing needs theory
- Prof Simon Kirby
- The Language Organism: evolution, culture, and what it means to be human
- Prof Jolyon Mitchell
- How can weapons be turned into art? How can swords be transformed into ploughshares?
- Prof Henry S. Thompson
- Understanding the Web, How theory and practice diverge
- Prof David Howarth
- Rubens and the Art of Friendship
- Prof Harald Haas
- Shedding light on future wireless communications
- Prof Christine Bell
- Constitutional Futures and Political Imagination
- Prof Barbara Webb
- Robotic perspectives on biological systems
- Prof Alex Lascarides
- Discourse Coherence
This article was published on Jan 12, 2012
