Inaugural Lectures 2009-2010
Details of the 2009-2010 Inaugural Lectures.
All lectures will take place at 5.15pm unless otherwise stated.
Date and venue | Speaker | Title of lecture | |
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17 September 2009, 2pm - Assembly Hall, New College | Jane Dawson: John Laing Professor of Reformation History (Divinity) | "Singing the Reformation: the Scottish experience" | |
22 September 2009- Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Miriam Meyerhoff: Personal Chair Sociolinguistics (PPLS) | "Life Lessons from Linguistics" | |
13 October 2009 - Martin Hall, New College | Michael Northcott - Personal Chair in Ethics (Divinity) | "Climate Change and the Communion of Saints" | |
27 October 2009 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | John Macinnes: Personal Chair in Sociology (SPS) | "Scotland and the Global Reproductive Revolution" | |
3 November 2009 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Jochen Clasen: Professor of Comparative Social Policy (SPS) | "Social Policy before the Crisis. Are there any lessons to be learned?" | |
2 December 2009 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Hugh Goddard: Professor of the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World (LLC) | "So what is the relationship between the world of Islam and the West?" | |
15 December 2009 - Lecture Theatre 270, Old College | Lesley McAra: Chair of Penology (Law) | "Crime and Punishment in a Small Nation: Why Penology Matters" | |
12 January 2010 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Douglas Brodie: Chair in Employment Law (Law) | "Redressing the Balance: The Judiciary and the Employment Contract" | |
26 January 2010 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Fernanda Ferreira: Chair of Language and Cognition (PPLS) | "Multiple pathways to understanding language" | |
23 February 2010 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Donald Bloxham: Personal Chair of Modern History (HCA) | "The Holocaust in European Perspective" | |
9 March 2010 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Stephen Osborne: Chair of International Public Management (Business) | "Delivering Public Services: Time for a New Theory?" | |
23 March 2010 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Judy Barringer: Personal Chair of Greek Art and Archaeology (HCA) | "A Cultural History of Olympia and its Monuments" | |
25 May 2010 - Lecture Theatre 183, Old College | Tom Archibald: Personal Chair of Business Modelling (Business) | "Modelling operational decisions in start-up firms: the road to ruin?" |