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• Sun 1 Jun 08 · Battle of Plassey Young People's Project OPEN DAY (Lab 4&5, Whitechapel Idea Store, London)

Previous talks/lectures in this category

• Sat 10 May 08 · The Pearl of Sufism Book Signing Event (Khalili Lecture Theatre (correct for event posting), London)

• Fri 28 Mar 08 · Mystics & Scientists 31: Rhythms and Cycles in Biological and Spiritual Life (University of Winchester, Winchester)

• Thu 20 Mar 08 · The Red Hand Gang: Surgeons in Georgian England (Shoe Lane Library, London)

• Wed 6 Feb 08 · Conservation in action (Roman Baths, Bath)

• Thu 24 Jan 08 · Devising affectedness: eco-homes and the making of material publics (Information Systems Research Forum, LSE, London)

• Thu 17 Jan 08 · Human / Nature: The Human Story (Grant Museum of Zoology, London)

• Mon 7 Jan 08 · Social Science and the Middle East: myths, pitfalls and opportunities (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)

• Wed 28 Nov 07 · Launch of the LSE/National Centre for Social Research Joint Research Programme (Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Thu 15 Nov 07 · The Police DNA Database (Cardiff Bay Visitor Centre (The Tube), Cardiff)

• Mon 5 Nov 07 · Rebellion & Resistance: On the The Slave Ship and Beyond (Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London)

• Thu 1 Nov 07 · The Little Theatre Of Disease & Desire (Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret, London)

• Tue 23 Oct 07 · Kouchner in Lampedusa, or the Two Faces of Humanitarianism (Birkbeck College, LONDON)

• Thu 11 Oct 07 · Between Culture and Capital: Art, Institutions and Corporate Patronage (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)

• Wed 10 Oct 07 · Between Culture and Capital: Art, Institutions and Corporate Patronage (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)

• Tue 25 Sep 07 · The Thames Gateway Project, Contemporary art and the changing landscape (the gallery at wimbledon college of art, London)

• Thu 6 Sep 07 · Artwork in Context: Ma Yongfeng:Dr Derek Siviter: Geology and Natural History Museum Practice (ArtSway, nr Lymington)

• Wed 5 Sep 07 · Launch Lecture of UNCTAD Trade and Development Report (New Theatre, London)

• Sat 7 Jul 07 · 'The Strange Encounter of Kant and Deleuze' Conference (University of Greenwich, Maritime Campus, London)

• Fri 22 Jun 07 · Materialism Today (Birkbeck College, LONDON)

• Wed 13 Jun 07 · Circus of the skin: The Modern Tattoo – with Dr. Krzysztof Fijalkowski (Time and Tide, Great Yarmouth)

• Tue 12 Jun 07 · Mind-Forg'd Manacles, William Blake and Slavery. A Blake Society lecture in the House of Commons (House of Commons, London)

• Wed 6 Jun 07 · What's the greatest innovation (Franklin-Wilkins Building, KCL, London)

• Sun 6 May 07 · The Situationist International. What is it? (Leicester Secular Society, Leicester)

• Mon 16 Apr 07 · The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (LG17, The Faculty of Law, Cambridge)

• Wed 28 Mar 07 · Financial Exclusion: Action by Government and the Financial Institutions (CIPFA, London)

• Thu 22 Mar 07 · Simon Schama. Changing Britain: Slavery, Abolition and Empire (Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, London)

• Mon 12 Mar 07 · Illustrations of a Curious Nature (Nature Live, Natural History Museum, London)

• Tue 6 Mar 07 · Altered States: The Natural History of Drug Plants (Nature Live, Natural History Museum, London)

• Mon 26 Feb 07 · The Uses and Misuses of Violence (Birkbeck College, LONDON)

• Thu 22 Feb 07 · Inference about inference: pragmatics and stylistic analysis (Room GR 06-07, English Faculty Building, Cambridge)

• Thu 25 Jan 07 · Some aspects of verb morphology and syntax in Modern Aramaic (Room GR 06-07, English Faculty Building, Cambridge)

• Mon 11 Dec 06 · Meltdown in Iraq: is it time for an exit? (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Tue 5 Dec 06 · Mismatch: Why our bodies are no longer fit for the Universe (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Mon 4 Dec 06 · The Ghost Map: Steven Johnson and Brian Eno (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Mon 4 Dec 06 · Personal recollections of Stanley Spencer (Morley College, London)

• Thu 30 Nov 06 · Differentiating morphology, syntax and meaning in the human brain (LG17, The Faculty of Law, Cambridge)

• Thu 16 Nov 06 · Problems with phonemes (LG17, The Faculty of Law, Cambridge)

• Mon 6 Nov 06 · Sleepfaring: a journey through the science of sleep (Pharmacology Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge)

• Mon 23 Oct 06 · Malaria: from science to action (Pharmacology Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge)

• Thu 19 Oct 06 · Concord, convergence and accommodation in bilingual children (Room GR 06-07, English Faculty Building, Cambridge)

• Wed 18 Oct 06 · The Ultra-Low-Power Wireless Medical Device Revolution (Westminster University NLT2, London)

• Thu 12 Oct 06 · Borderlines. The Ethical Accountability of Nomadic Subjects (Forum for European Philosophy, London)

• Tue 10 Oct 06 · Why Intelligent Design is Stupid (UCL, London)

• Thu 5 Oct 06 · Provocations. Marx: Theses on Feuerbach (Forum for European Philosophy, London)

• Wed 4 Oct 06 · School of Humanities Inaugural Lecture (University of Dundee, Dundee)

• Sat 16 Sep 06 · Mozart in London lecture at Queen Mary, University of London (Queen Mary, University of London, London)

• Sun 6 Aug 06 · The history of Undertaking (Dissenters' Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, London)

• Wed 26 Jul 06 · Full Life, Long Life? (Soho Theatre, London)

• Thu 20 Jul 06 · Survival Strategies – The Artist, The Audience & The Institution (Whitechapel Gallery, London)

• Thu 13 Jul 06 · WE LOVE TECHNOLOGY (University of Huddersfield, HUDDERSFI ELD)

• Wed 5 Jul 06 · Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World-View (Imperial College, London)

• Tue 6 Jun 06 · Thomas Coram: 18th century volunteer campaigner and fundraiser (The Foundling Museum, London)

• Thu 25 May 06 · Aliens on Earth (Thinktank, the Birmingham science museum, Birmingham)

• Fri 19 May 06 · Scooter Style and the eternal call to be cool (Chelsea Programme, Chelses College of Art & Design, London)

• Thu 4 May 06 · Are you getting enough sleep? (Thinktank, the Birmingham science museum, Birmingham)

• Wed 5 Apr 06 · Collections Revealed: Clocks and Chronometers (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

• Fri 31 Mar 06 · Mystics and Scientists: The Spirit of Mountains: Inner and Outer Explorations (University of Winchester, Winchester)

• Tue 21 Mar 06 · Leadership adn change: Heath (Staple Inn Hall, London)

• Mon 20 Mar 06 · Quarantine in the 19th century (Gresham College, London)

• Sat 18 Mar 06 · Space Exploration: The Final Frontier (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

• Sat 18 Mar 06 · The Big Bang: History of the World in 60 Minutes (University of Dundee, Dundee)

• Thu 16 Mar 06 · Fraud, bankruptcy, suicide and transportation: The history of the London Underground railway (Gresham College, London)

• Thu 16 Mar 06 · Searching of Extra Terrestrial Intelligence: A new way of looking (Thinktank, the Birmingham science museum, Birmingham)

• Wed 15 Mar 06 · The mapping of emotion (Gresham College, London)

• Tue 14 Mar 06 · Liberal Christianity (Gresham College, London)

• Mon 13 Mar 06 · Hospitals for Seafarers (Gresham College, London)

• Wed 8 Mar 06 · The Dutch East Indies Company - the second 100 years (Gresham College, London)

• Tue 7 Mar 06 · The Women’s Library Annual Lecture 2006: Pensions – Paradise or Poverty? (The Women's Library, London)

• Sat 4 Mar 06 · Future of Community Festival (Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London)

• Thu 2 Mar 06 · Why do we gamble and take needless risks? (Gresham College, London)

• Wed 1 Mar 06 · The Dutch East Indies Company - the first 100 years (Gresham College, London)

• Thu 23 Feb 06 · Music in the Age of Copernicus (Gresham College, London)

• Wed 22 Feb 06 · Problems with schoolgirls (Gresham College, London)

• Tue 21 Feb 06 · Leadership and change: Wilson (Staple Inn Hall, London)

• Sat 18 Feb 06 · Making Sense of the Universe: A History of Cosmology (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

• Thu 16 Feb 06 · Theories of everything (The Museum of London, London)

• Tue 14 Feb 06 · Psychiatry lecture (Gresham College, London)

• Wed 8 Feb 06 · The Ethics of War: Shared problems in different traditions (Gresham College, London)

• Tue 7 Feb 06 · The Reformation (Gresham College, London)

• Thu 2 Feb 06 · Lecture Series: Britain and Egypt from Nelson to Nasser (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

• Thu 2 Feb 06 · Intelligent Design (Thinktank, the Birmingham science museum, Birmingham)

• Tue 31 Jan 06 · ARTIST’S PLAYGROUND - (or Plagiarism?) Aspects of copying in contemporary culture ARTIST’S PLAYGRO (The Association of Illustrators, London)

• Thu 26 Jan 06 · Impossibility: the limits of science (The Museum of London, London)

• Wed 25 Jan 06 · Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue: The ture story of Gulf War Syndrom (Gresham College, London)

• Tue 24 Jan 06 · Lecture Series: The Royal Navy in the French Wars, 1793-1815: Part 2 (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

• Sat 21 Jan 06 · Burying Nelson: His Funeral and Legacy (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

• Thu 19 Jan 06 · Lecture Series: Britain and Egypt from Nelson to Nasser (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

• Wed 18 Jan 06 · Wallpaper patterns and buckyballs (Gresham College, London)

• Mon 16 Jan 06 · Goldilocks Government and the Market: not too little, not too much, but just right (Gresham College, London)

• Sat 14 Jan 06 · Marine Wind Scales and Weathermen: Three Centuries of Understanding and Describing the Weather at Se (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

• Thu 12 Jan 06 · Lecture Series: Britain and Egypt from Nelson to Nasser (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

• Thu 12 Jan 06 · Time: a guide for Travellers (The Museum of London, London)

• Tue 10 Jan 06 · Lecture Series: The Royal Navy in the French Wars, 1793-1815: Part 2 (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

• Mon 9 Jan 06 · Reforming the UN (Portcullis House, London)

• Fri 30 Dec 05 · Urban View (Greenbank Lecture Theatre, Preston)

• Thu 15 Dec 05 · Music, art and the brain (Gresham College, London)

• Tue 6 Dec 05 · Journey into Space (Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester)

• Wed 30 Nov 05 · Physics and the Emergence of Complexity (EnlightenNext, Islington)

• Thu 24 Nov 05 · The face of Charles Dickens (Gresham College, London)

• Wed 16 Nov 05 · Who invented the calculus? (Gresham College, London)

• Tue 15 Nov 05 · The beginnings: a Jewish Messianic sect (Gresham College, London)

• Wed 9 Nov 05 · Future Cities: Nature vs. Technology (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Wed 2 Nov 05 · Dr Peter Cave - (Birkbeck Philosophy Society, London)

• Wed 2 Nov 05 · Travels in Time: History and identity in today's world (The Museum of London, London)

• Tue 1 Nov 05 · The Lisbon Earthquake: Two hundred and fifty years on (Gresham College, London)

• Thu 27 Oct 05 · The left, right and centre of male and female brain politics (Gresham College, London)

• Tue 25 Oct 05 · Modernising Parliament: Reform of the House of Commons (Gresham College, London)

• Tue 18 Oct 05 · Our marble tribute (Gresham College, London)

• Mon 17 Oct 05 · The perverse and the reverse: how bad measures skew markets (Gresham College, London)

• Fri 14 Oct 05 · Zaha Hadid Lecture & Lighthouse Achievement Award 2005 (Radisson SAS, Glasgow)

• Thu 13 Oct 05 · Charles Dickens at Doughty Street (Dickens House Museum, London)

• Thu 13 Oct 05 · Urban Summit (THE LIGHTHOUSE, GLASGOW)

• Thu 6 Oct 05 · How vital is motivation in our lives? (Gresham College, London)

• Fri 16 Sep 05 · French Ways and Their Meaning: Edith Wharton, An American Writer in France (Royal Academy of Arts, London)

• Wed 14 Sep 05 · Cultural Codes, Global Maps and Human Emergence: How to Design a Positive Future for us All (Voices from the Edge, London)

• Thu 14 Jul 05 · Secrets and Surprises from the English Country House (SAVE Britain's Heritage, London)

• Fri 8 Jul 05 · Art in the Public Realm (Lecture Theatre 1, London)

• Sat 2 Jul 05 · Tour and Picnic at Barlaston Hall (Barlaston Hall, Stoke on Trent)

• Mon 6 Jun 05 · The Codebreakers (The British Postal Museum & Archive, London)

• Thu 2 Jun 05 · Does Consciousness Exist Beyond the Brain? (Voices from the Edge, London)

• Wed 25 May 05 · Joanna Bourke Talk (Waterstone's Gower Street, London)

• Fri 13 May 05 · The Infantilist Ethos and the Decline of Capitalism (The Democracy Club, London)

• Fri 13 May 05 · Max Hastings event at Theatre Royal, Bath (Theatre Royal Bath, Bath)

• Thu 12 May 05 · Alex Lifschutz (Chelsea College of Art and Design, London)

• Wed 11 May 05 · Richard Holmes Event in Canterbury (Waterstone's Canterbury, Canterbury)

• Fri 6 May 05 · Richard Holmes Talk at Theatre Royal, Bath (Theatre Royal Bath, Bath)

• Wed 4 May 05 · Will Alsop (Chelsea College of Art and Design, London)

• Wed 27 Apr 05 · Cradle to Cradle: A Roadmap for the Next Industrial Revolution (Voices from the Edge, London)

• Sat 23 Apr 05 · research workshop (AHRB Research Centre for Crosscultural Music and Dance Performan, London)

• Tue 19 Apr 05 · Educating the Innovator: Interdisciplinary Education across Science and Art (Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow)

• Tue 19 Apr 05 · Nature, soul, health and disease - Greek Medical and philosophical ideas on psychosomatic interactio (Insights - Lectures for the Public, Newcastle upon Tyne)

• Mon 14 Mar 05 · Masterclass on Creative Problem Solving (Greenwich University, London)

• Fri 25 Feb 05 · Further Reaches Of Human Consciousness (Voices from the Edge, London)

• Tue 1 Feb 05 · Discovering People, Martin Bell (Royal Geographical Society, London)

• Wed 19 Jan 05 · The Arabian Bedouin in the Modern World (Press and Information Office, SOAS, London)

• Mon 6 Dec 04 · A Clone of Your Own?: The Science and Ethics of Cloning (Kro at Cafe Muse, Manchester)

• Mon 8 Nov 04 · Silicon Chips & Silicon Fibres....An Integrated World? (Kro at Cafe Muse, Manchester)

• Mon 11 Oct 04 · Counter-Intuitive Science (Kro at Cafe Muse, Manchester)

• Tue 5 Oct 04 · Rearranging Faces – Future Face book launch (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 29 Sep 04 · Gallery Talk: Julie Scott, Raoul Bianchi, Tom Selwyn (The Photographers' Gallery, London)

• Wed 15 Sep 04 · Photographer's Talk: Xavier Ribas (The Photographers' Gallery, London)

• Mon 13 Sep 04 · Wound Healing (Kro at Cafe Muse, Manchester)

• Mon 6 Sep 04 · The Threat of Terrorism: The Place of Science (The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh)

• Fri 13 Aug 04 · Photographer's Talk: Efrat Shvily (The Photographers' Gallery, London)

• Wed 14 Jul 04 · Photographers’ Talk (The Photographers' Gallery, London)

• Mon 5 Jul 04 · How small can you get? (Kro at Cafe Muse, Manchester)

• Fri 25 Jun 04 · After Alexander: Central Asia Before Islam (day 3 of 3) (British Academy, London)

• Mon 7 Jun 04 · Virtual Reality (Kro at Cafe Muse, Manchester)

• Fri 21 May 04 · Fashion as Photograph (National Portrait Gallery, London)

• Wed 12 May 04 · Some Remarks on the Double Object Construction and the Syntax-Prosody Interface (UCL Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, London)

• Wed 12 May 04 · Beyond difference (Gresham College, London)

• Tue 11 May 04 · Warton Lecture on English Poetry (British Academy, London)

• Tue 27 Apr 04 · Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture - Archaeology in Mesopotamia: Digging Deeper at Tell Brak (British Academy, London)

• Tue 23 Mar 04 · One-day Conference on Refugees in the 20th and 21st Centuries (British Academy, London)

• Mon 22 Mar 04 · The Western Asylum Crisis: The Way Forward (British Academy, London)

• Thu 18 Mar 04 · The Bevelled Playing Field (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Mon 15 Mar 04 · Exploded Paint, Exploded Curating (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Wed 10 Mar 04 · Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian women and the spatial politics of home. (British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol)

• Tue 9 Mar 04 · Final Analogies: Animals and the Holocaust in the Tales of I. B. Singer (The Institute of English Studies (IES), London)

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