Throughout the year, the University of Sussex is host to an exciting series of public lectures that illustrate the breadth and quality of research being conducted at the University.
Most lectures are recorded and made available here in a number of formats.
Professorial Lecture: Bibliophobia
25 November 2008
Speaker: Professor Brian Cummings, Professor of English - School of Humanities
Professorial Lecture: ’I think I might even make a film…’: Francis Bacon; cinema, photography and fantasy
18 November 2008
Speaker: Professor David Mellor, Professor of History of Art - School of Humanities
Professorial Lecture: Simulating the universe: computer models of large-scale structure
04 November 2008
Speaker: Professor Peter Thomas, Professor of Astronomy, - School of Science and Technology
Professorial Lecture: Human Mutations: the good, the bad and the indifferent
21 October 2008
Speaker: Professor Adam Eyre-Walker, Professor of Biology and Environmental Science - School of Life Sciences
Renaming of Arts, A1, A2 lecture theatres in honour of Asa Briggs - Part 2: Introduction by Professor Peter Burke followed by Lord Briggs renaming ceremony and speech
08 June 2008
Speaker: Lord Briggs
Renaming of Arts, A1, A2 lecture theatres in honour of Asa Briggs - Part 1: How religion has shaped secular scoiety
04 June 2008
Speaker: Professor Knud Haakonssen, Director, Sussex Centre for Intellectual History - School of Humanities
Professorial Lecture: European integration and representative politics
20 May 2008
Speaker: Professor Paul Taggart, Professor of Politics - School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies
Professorial Lecture: Innovation in East Asia: its Time for a New Policy Agenda
29 April 2008
Speaker: Professor Michael Hobday, Professorial Fellow - SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research
Professorial Lecture: The flame of life - teaching old enzymes new tricks
11 March 2008
Speaker: Professor Andrew Smith, Professor of Biochemistry - School of Life Sciences
Professorial Lecture: Atrocity, apostacy and apocalypse: Newton’s radical heresy in the digital age
04 March 2008
Speaker: Professor Robert Iliffe, Professor of Intellectual History and History of Science - School of Humanities
Professorial Lecture: Graphite – a new twist
19 February 2008
Speaker: Professor Malcolm I. Heggie, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry - School of Life Sciences
Professorial Lecture: Reading comprehension: losing the thread
22 January 2008
Speaker: Professor Jane Oakhill, Professor of Experimental Psychology - School of Life Sciences