Julia Marton-Lefèvre - The Promise of 2015: Hopes for a New Environmental Enlightenment
Julia Marton-Lefèvre, environmentalist and academic, delivers the final lecture in the 2015 Our Changing World series. This lecture is also part of ou...
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Edinburgh attracts a wide range of distinguished speakers throughout the year - here we feature some of our lecture highlights. Audio version.
Jack Matlock - The Ukrainian Crisis: Reflections on Power in Today's World
Jack Matlock, former US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, delivers the 2015 Fulbright Lecture, entitled The Ukrainian Crisis: Reflections on Power in To...
Prof. Sir John Beddington - Legacies of the 20th Century and Challenges for the 21st
Professor Sir John Beddington, Former Government Chief Scientific Adviser, and Edinburgh alumnus, delivers the Enlightenment Lecture entitled Legacies...
Gopalkrishna Gandhi - India Yesterday, India Today
The Edinburgh India Institute is delighted to present the inaugural India Day lecture by Gopalkrishna Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. Mr Gandhi's ...
Scotland’s Religious Future
Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at the School of Divinity, will in conversation with Mike Russell MSP, Scottish Cabinet...
Does Fair Trade Make a Difference?
February 2014 marks ten years of the University of Edinburgh supporting fair trade, following a student vote to become a Fairtrade University. Februar...
An Audience with Peter Higgs
Professor Peter Higgs gives a talk about the particle that bears his name.The celebrated scientist joins a panel discussion on the Higgs boson, a part...
The Union: an historical perspective - is it Better Together or is Independence the answer?
Professor Tom Devine, Senior Research Professor in History and Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, delivers his lecture entitled "I...
Robert Cook-Deegan - ConSequences: Some implications of DNA sequencing technology
Robert Cook-Deegan, Director, IGSP Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy, Duke University gives a genomics lecture entitled 'ConSequences: Some impl...
Tom Devine - An Empire of Commerce: Three Centuries of Scottish Enterprise in the East
The General Council Lecture, presented by Professor Tom Devine on Saturday 12 June in Hong Kong.The lecture explores the historical links between Scot...