The Sussex Lectures
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The Sussex lectures provide an opportunity for our world-class academics and renowned guest speakers to share their research with staff, students and the wider community. These lectures are open to the general public and are free to attend.
These public lectures promote our excellent research and teaching, and provide opportunities for the wider community to come and experience academia. You can sign up to receive information about our lectures below.
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| Lectures | Speaker |
|---|
| We had the experience but missed the meaning (Dry Salvages, T.S.Eliot): Reflecting on reflection (audio only) |
Professor Gillian Ruch |
| Education, conflict, war and peace: Between governance and resistance (audio only) |
Professor Mario Novelli |
| Forests, famine and communities: Towards an environmental history of eastern India (audio only) |
Professor Vinita Damodaran |
| ‘Food-work city’: Oral histories of and for changing places (audio only) |
Professor Ben Rogaly |
| Who framed American English? |
Professor Lynne Murphy |
| Re-interpreting the Sounds of World War I (audio only) |
Professor Michael Bull |
| What can we learn from humble insects to build better AI? |
Professor Thomas Nowotny |
| Running in the family: Can we help anxious parents to raise confident children? |
Professor Sam Cartwright-Hatton |
| ‘I Shall Not Hate’ (audio only) |
Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish |
| Sex, gender and sexuality in Europe: Sinking in quicksand? (audio only) |
Professor Nuno Ferreira |
| The road to immortality: Insights from a cancer virus |
Professor Michelle West |
| Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture 2018 - Can we have a fully integrated and equal society? Or is it just a pipe dream? |
Dame Louise Casey DBE CB |
| Draper Lecture 2017 - Human Rights and the Politics of Compassion |
Martha Spurrier, Director of Liberty |
| Feelings at Work in Modern Britain (audio only) |
Professor Claire Langhamer |
| The Tendency of Utopia to Disappoint: Digital technologies and Future Hopes (audio only) |
Professor Caroline Bassett |
| Martin Wight Memorial Lecture 2017 - Trust and Distrust in Russia: The Heritage of the October Revolution re-examined (audio only) |
Professor Geoffrey Hoskin OBE FBA |
| Hic Sunt Leones – Hunting for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider (audio only) |
Professor Antonella De Santo |
| Your brain on drugs: not the same everywhere (audio only) |
Professor Aldo Badiani |
| The Famous Five Acting Otherwise: The Significance of Scope and Scale in Children’s Agency and Social Actorship (audio only) |
Professor Jo Moran-Ellis |
| Traversing the Academy: Experimental Arts Before and After Austerity (audio only) |
Professor Gavin Butt |
| Thinking through ‘family’, thinking across contexts (audio only) |
Professor Janet Boddy |
| W(h)ither Public Law? (audio only) |
Professor Lindsay Stirton |
| Seeing in Colour (audio only) |
Professor Anna Franklin |
| Reproductive Politics in India: Giving the Body a Voice (audio only) |
Professor Maya Unnithan |
| Living Standards in Britain Since the Industrial Revolution (audio only) |
Professor Ian Gazeley |
| Clusters of Galaxies: The Shy Giants of the Cosmos (audio only) |
Professor Kathy Romer |
| Black Holes: From Astrophysics to the Large Hadron Collider (audio only) |
Professor Xavier Calmet |
| Balls, Rods and Sheets Nanoscale Building Blocks For Tomorrow’s Technologies (audio only) |
Professor Alan Dalton |
| Founding Historians Lecture 2016 - The Commonwealth and South Africa: From Smuts to Mandela (audio only) |
Professor Saul Dubow |
| Britain's President, America's Prime Minister: Transatlantic Commemorations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill (audio only) |
Professor Clive Webb |
| Listening Publics: Media, Modernity & Citizenship (audio only) |
Professor Kate Lacey |
| Draper Lecture 2016 - The Rise of the Cyber Judge |
Lord Justice Fulford |
| The Making of an Ally: the sources and history of Israel – US Special Relations (audio only) |
Professor David Tal |
| Consciousness: What in the world is it? (Making the future 2016) |
Professor Anil Seth |
| Hearing colours and tasting words: The kaleidoscopic world of synaesthesia (Making the future 2016) |
Professor Jamie Ward |
| Complex organic molecules in interstellar space (Making the future 2016) |
Professor Wendy Brown |
| Invasion and insurrection: A virus in action (Making the future 2016) |
Professor Alison Sinclair |
| Institutions: Female leadership in community governed financial organisations and financial management (Making the future 2016) |
Professor John Forker |
| Corruption and anti-corruption: The challenge of our time? (Making the future 2016) |
Professor Dan Hough |
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