Series 2010-2011
Details of the 2010-2011 series of Munro Lectures.
Professor Margaret Lock: 'Entanglement of Ageing and Dementia: Pathological Brains and Healthy Minds'
Margaret Lock is the Marjorie Bronfman Professor in Social Studies in Medicine at McGill University, Montreal.
Thursday 5 May 2011, 5.15pm
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Teviot, Edinburgh
Professor Didier Fassin
Professor Fassin is the James D Wolfensohn Professor in the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Princeton.
Thursday 17 March 2011, 6.15pm
Professor C. Brian Rose: 'Assessing the Evidence for the Trojan War: Recent Excavations at Troy'
Brian Rose is the James B Pritchard Professor of Archaeology at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia.
Thursday 10 March 2011, 6.15pm
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh
Professor Pierre Pétrequin: 'Objects of Power: Ethno-Archaeology of Axes in New Guinea and in Prehistoric Europe'
Professor Pétrequin is a professor at the Université de Franche-Comté in Besançon, France.
Thursday 24 February 2011, 6.15pm
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
Dr Phil. Jörg Biel: 'New Research on Early Celtic Princely Sites in the South of Germany'
Dr Biel is Retired Landeskonservator/Chief Archaeologist of Baden-Württemberg (South West Germany).
Thursday 3 February 2011, 6.15pm
Sunday 27 February 2011, 8.15pm
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh