Sussex lectures archive

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2019 lectures
- Social relationships and well-being: why kindness matters - Profesessor Robin Banerjee - Listen here
- Learn to listen - Dr Alice Eldridge - Listen here
- The empowering force of physics - Dr Kate Shaw - Listen here
- Couplings on the run – from fundamental particles to quantum gravity - Professor Daniel Litim - Listen here
- Dynamics and control – their role in cutting vehicle CO2 emissions - Professor Julian Dunne - Listen here
- Queer Cultures of Conflict: Facing Heterogeneity, Fostering Queerversity (audio only) - Dr Antke Engel, The Technische Universität Darmstad - Listen here
- Happier families: The kids (and mum & dad) are alright (audio only) - Professor Alison Pike - Listen here
- Distant voices, living music: hearing the past and writing the present - Professor Ed Hughes - Listen here
- Draper Lecture 2019: Human Rights and Leadership in a Lawless World - Paul van Zyl - Listen here
- Holocaust Memorial Day at Sussex: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and Niklas Frank in conversation with Trudy Gold - Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and Niklas Frank - Listen here
- Holocaust Memorial Day at Sussex: September 1939 and the Fate of Europe’s Jews - Professor Richard Overy, University of Exeter - Listen here
2018 lectures
- Why the US is Not a "Nation of Immigrants" - Professor Maria Lauret - Listen here
- A vision of successful education in Africa through the agency of research - Professor Kwame Akyeampong - Listen here
- We had the experience but missed the meaning (Dry Salvages, T.S.Eliot): Reflecting on reflection - Professor Gillian Ruch - Listen here
- The mathematics of epidemics on networks: taming complexity - Professor Istvan Kiss - Listen here
- Education, conflict, war and peace: Between governance and resistance - Professor Mario Novelli - Listen here
- Forests, famine and communities: Towards an environmental history of eastern India - Professor Vinita Damodaran - Listen here
- ‘Food-work city’: Oral histories of and for changing places - Professor Ben Rogaly - Listen here
- Who framed American English? - Professor Lynne Murphy - Watch on YouTube
- Re-interpreting the Sounds of World War I - Professor Michael Bull - Listen here
- What can we learn from humble insects to build better AI? - Professor Thomas Nowotny - Watch on YouTube
- Running in the family: Can we help anxious parents to raise confident children? - Professor Sam Cartwright-Hatton - Watch on YouTube
- ‘I Shall Not Hate’ - Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish - Listen here
- Sex, gender and sexuality in Europe: Sinking in quicksand? - Professor Nuno Ferreira - Listen here
- The road to immortality: Insights from a cancer virus - Professor Michelle West - Watch on YouTube
- 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 - Watch on YouTube
2017 lectures
- Draper Lecture 2017 - Human Rights and the Politics of Compassion - Martha Spurrier, Director of Liberty - Watch on YouTube
- Feelings at Work in Modern Britain - Professor Claire Langhamer - Listen here
- The Tendency of Utopia to Disappoint: Digital technologies and Future Hopes - Professor Caroline Bassett - Listen here
- Martin Wight Memorial Lecture 2017 - Trust and Distrust in Russia: The Heritage of the October Revolution re-examined - Professor Geoffrey Hoskin OBE FBA - Listen here
- Hic Sunt Leones – Hunting for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider - Professor Antonella De Santo - Listen here
- Your brain on drugs: not the same everywhere - Professor Aldo Badiani - Listen here
- The Famous Five Acting Otherwise: The Significance of Scope and Scale in Children’s Agency and Social Actorship - Professor Jo Moran-Ellis - Listen here
- Traversing the Academy: Experimental Arts Before and After Austerity - Professor Gavin Butt - Listen here
- Thinking through ‘family’, thinking across contexts - Professor Janet Boddy - Listen here
- W(h)ither Public Law? - Professor Lindsay Stirton - Listen here
- Seeing in Colour - Professor Anna Franklin - Listen here
- Reproductive Politics in India: Giving the Body a Voice - Professor Maya Unnithan - Listen here
- Living Standards in Britain Since the Industrial Revolution - Professor Ian Gazeley - Listen here
- Clusters of Galaxies: The Shy Giants of the Cosmos - Professor Kathy Romer - Listen here
- Black Holes: From Astrophysics to the Large Hadron Collider - Professor Xavier Calmet - Listen here
- Balls, Rods and Sheets Nanoscale Building Blocks For Tomorrow’s Technologies - Professor Alan Dalton - Listen here
2016 lectures
- Founding Historians Lecture 2016 - The Commonwealth and South Africa: From Smuts to Mandela - Professor Saul Dubow - Listen here
- Britain's President, America's Prime Minister: Transatlantic Commemorations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill - Professor Clive Webb - Listen here
- Listening Publics: Media, Modernity & Citizenship - Professor Kate Lacey - Listen here
- Draper Lecture 2016 - The Rise of the Cyber Judge - Lord Justice Fulford - Watch on YouTube
- The Making of an Ally: the sources and history of Israel – US Special Relations - Professor David Tal - Listen here
- Consciousness: What in the world is it? (Making the future 2016) - Professor Anil Seth - Watch on YouTube
- Hearing colours and tasting words: The kaleidoscopic world of synaesthesia (Making the future 2016) - Professor Jamie Ward - Watch on YouTube
- Complex organic molecules in interstellar space (Making the future 2016) - Professor Wendy Brown - Watch on YouTube
- Invasion and insurrection: A virus in action (Making the future 2016) - Professor Alison Sinclair - Watch on YouTube
- Institutions: Female leadership in community governed financial organisations and financial management (Making the future 2016) - Professor John Forker - Watch on YouTube
- Corruption and anti-corruption: The challenge of our time? (Making the future 2016) - Professor Dan Hough - Watch on YouTube
2015 lectures
- Future courts and future rights. The way forward in criminal justice - Professor Richard Vogler - Watch on YouTube
- The Draper Lecture 2015 - Man's Inhumanity to Man; What Price Imprisonment - The Lord Ramsbotham GCB EBE - Watch on YouTube
- Social Work Research: Identity, Interdisciplinarity and Impact - Professor Elaine Sharland - Watch on YouTube
- Journey into the Unknown - Professor Dominic Kniveton - Watch on YouTube
- No Justice Without Care: A relational approach to children's healthcare law - Professor Jo Bridgeman - Watch on YouTube
- Founding Historians Lecture 2015: French Resistance: myths, lives and videotape - Professor Rod Kedward - Watch on YouTube
- Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture 2015: The State of Policing - Sir Thomas Windsor - Watch on YouTube
- The eternal battle between new and old: What frogs have to say? - Professor Emmanuel Mamatzakis - Watch on YouTube
- Getting on and falling out - Professor Robin Banerjee - Watch on YouTube
- Holocaust Memorial Day - Keep the memory alive: Thomas Harding - Watch on YouTube
- Holocaust Memorial Day - Keep the memory alive: Lady Zahava Kohn and Hephzibah Rudofsky - Watch on YouTube
2014 lectures
- Why biomedical anthropology is crucial to political decisions about the future of life, life science and local health - Professor Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner - Watch on YouTube
- The Draper Lecture 2014 - On Liberty - Shami Chakrabarti, Director, Liberty - Watch on YouTube
- A model for democratic transition and European integration? Why does Poland matter - Professor Aleks Szczerbiak - Watch on YouTube
- Public experiments: the science and art of scientific advice - Professor James Wilsdon - Watch on YouTube
- How to design new medicines - Professor Simon Ward - Watch on YouTube
- Alternative Societies - Professor Luke Martell - Watch on YouTube
- Howmanydunnit? What do crime statistics tell us, and can we trust them? - Jil Matheson, UK National Statistitian - Watch on YouTube
- Risks and rewards: Building symbiotic innovation eco-systems - Professor Mariana Mazzucato - Watch on YouTube
- Uneven and combined development - Professor Justin Rosenburg - Watch on YouTube
- Seventy years after the Holocaust: Why does it still matter and what have we learned? - Sir Andrew Burns KCMG, United Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues - Watch on YouTube
- Survival, memory and trauma - Anita Lasker-Wallfisch - Watch on YouTube
- Holocaust Memorial Day - Trudy Gold, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Maya Jacobs-Wallfisch - Watch on YouTube
- Digital childhoods - Professor Rachel Thomson - Watch on YouTube
2013 lectures
- Responsibility, childhood and the criminal law - Professor Heather Keating - Watch on YouTube
- Is natural gas the fuel of the future or a bridge to nowhere - Professor Jim Watson - Watch on YouTube
- Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture - The surrender of privacy: is the state to blame? - Lord Carlile of Berriew CBE, QC - Watch on YouTube
- Low-temperature physics and why it helps to run in a corridor - Debbie Hill - Watch on YouTube
- The rise and fall of liberal foreign policy - Professor Beate Jahn - Listen [MP3 18MB]
- Chemical contaminants: the sexual chemistry of fish and foetal health - Professor Elizabeth Hill - Listen [MP3 27MB]
- What actually happens to new businesses? - David Storey - Listen [MP3 16MB]
- Art and Industrialists in late Imperial Russia - Beryl Williams - Listen [MP3 28MB]
- A celebration of Virginia Woolf - Sara Crangle - Listen [MP3 22MB]
- Democracy and Empire - Professor Richard Whatmore - Listen [MP3 24MB]
- Gone in a yoctosecond: a rough guide to the Big Bang - Professor Mark Hindmarsh - Listen [MP3 30MB]
- Contagion: disease, security and the politics of fear - Professor Stefan Elbe - Listen [MP3 23MB]
2012 lectures
- The beginnings of the sciences at the University of Sussex - Lord Briggs - Listen [MP3 28MB]
- The death of opera? - Professor Nicholas Till - Listen [MP3 28mb]
- Uniting States of Americans: from ‘I am an American’ to ‘We are the 99%’ - Professor Cynthia Weber - Listen [MP3 22MB]
- From spider silk to Alzheimer’s disease: common threads in protein assembly - Professor Louise Serpell - Listen [MP3 16MB]
- Smoke signals from the distant universe - Professor Seb Oliver - Listen [MP3 20mb]
- Spence, Sussex and the sixties - Professor Louise Campbell, University of Warwick - Listen [MP3 27MB]
- Re-visioning the gender agenda - Professor Andrea Cornwall - Listen [MP3 19MG]
- Making ends meet: mutual strategies for maintaining genome stability - Professor Aidan Doherty - Listen [MP3 27MG]
- Outsourcing, offshoring and the global factory - Professor Roger Strange - Listen [MP3 24MB]
- Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture - Nick Hardwick, CBE - Listen [MP3 21MB]
- The arts of looking - Professor Vicky Lebeau - Listen [MP3 19MB]
- Professorial lecture: Robots like us - Professor Owen Holland - Listen [MP3 22MB]
- Professorial lecture: Connect-disconnect: stories from the jagged edge - Professor Katy Gardner - Listen [MP3 22MB]
2011 lectures
- Professorial Lecture: Blowing in the wind: desert dust in the Earth's climate system - Professor Martin Todd - Listen [MP3 25 MB]
- Serotonin, satiety and the challenge of obesity - Professor Pete Clifton - Listen [MP3 28MB]
- Issues in Criminal Justics Lecture: Reforms in criminal justice - Nick Herbert MP - Minister of State for Policing and Criminal Justice - Listen [MP3 23M]
- The art of the possible - Professor Peter Boxall - Listen [MP3 27MB]
- Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture: Rape, a unique crime? - Baroness Stern CBE - Listen [MP3 15MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Prophecy, prediction, approximation and computation - Professor Erik Burman - Listen [MP3 21MB]
- Asa Briggs in converstion with Michael Farthing, plus Q&A session - Asa Briggs and Michael Farthing - Listen [MP3 31MB]
- Professorial Lecture: The Republican Party and the secession crisis of 1860-61 - Professor Robert Cook - Listen [MP3 24MB]
- Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture: Privy Council and death penalty - a buried treasure of jurispridence - Edward Fitzgerald CBE QC - Listen [MP3 26MB]
- David Miliband in conversation with Tim Bale, plus Q&A session - David Miliband and Tim Bale - Listen [MP3 27MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Can we really abolish child poverty in Britain? - Professor Richard Dickens - Listen [MP3 20MB]
- Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture - Kier Starmer QC - Listen [MP3 15MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Byzantine Art, all that glitters is gold - Professor Liz James - Listen [MP3 23MB]
- Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture - Dominic Grieve QC MP - Listen [MP3 21MB]
- Professorial Lecture : Challenges of producing cleaner energy from gasified coal and solid waste - Professor Abdulnaser Sayma - Listen [MP3 24MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Symmetries, scales and the origin of everything - Professor Philip Harris - Listen [MP3 25MB]
- University of Sussex Lecture 2011: Theatre, Live Art and the Skenabiotope - Professor Sally Jane Norman - Listen [MP3. 18MB]
2010 lectures
- Founding Historians’ Lecture - Liberalism and empire - Professor Richard Price - Listen [MP3 28MB]
- Which way is progress? Adventures in science, technology and democracy - Professor Andrew Stirling - Listen [MP3 19MB]
- Professorial Lecture: The world as it is in itself - Professor Michael Morris - Listen [MP3 23MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Computer processing of human language: finding meaning in the digital world - Professor John Carroll - Listen [MP3 24MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Colour through animal eyes - Professor Daniel Osorio - Listen [MP3 23MB]
- Professorial Lecture: A twisted tale of memory research: how the humble snail helps us to understand how we learn and remember - Professor George Kemenes - Listen [MP3 29MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Imagining the university of the future - Professor Louise Morley - Listen [MP3 23MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Queer as fish - Professor Sally R. Munt - Listen [MP3 21MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Can science and politics help keep each other honest? - Professor Erik Millstone - Listen [MP3 30MB]
- Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture: Memoirs of a radical lawyer - Michael Mansfield QC - Listen [MP3 27MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Making tea is not a piece of cake - Professor Jennifer Rusted - Listen [MP3 33MB]
- Sackler Centre for Conciousness Science Lecture: What is consciousness for? Professor Chris Frith, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London - Listen [MP3 20MB]
- Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture: Criminal law and bureaucracy: has it all gone too far? - Professor Jeremy Horder, Criminal Law Commissioner, Law Commission for England and Wales - Listen [MP3 24MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Social work, law and the art of navigation - Professor Suzy Braye - Listen [MP3 13MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Paying the price for sugar and spice? How women and girls are kept out of mathematics and science - Professor Jo Boaler - Listen [MP3 21MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Rights politics, legal mobilization and gender equality in Europe - Professor Susan Millns - Listen [MP3 24MB]
- Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture: Delivering an excellent public prosecution service - Rt Hon Baroness Scotland QC - Listen [MP3 19MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Economic growth, ubanisation and spatial inequality: can Asian successes translate to other regions? - Professor Andy McKay - Listen [MP3 19MB]
- University of Sussex Lecture 2010: The 300 million year war - Professor Sue Hartley - Listen [MP3. 17MB]
2009 lectures
- Professorial Lecture: No love for the Jewish people? Hannah Arendt's 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' revisited - Professor Christian Wiese - Listen [MP3 24MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Breaking and repairing human genes: A question of balance - Professor Keith Caldecott - Listen [MP3 24MB]
- Professorial lecture: The mind/body problem in health and illness - Professor Gillian Bendelow - Listen [MP3 24MB]
- Professorial lecture: Talk-stoppers, converstion and Victorian fiction - Professor Jenny Bourne Taylor - Listen [MP3 17MB]
- Professorial lecture: Strangers and citizens - A journey between cultures, disciplines and ideologies - Professor Barbara Einhorn - Listen [MP3 26MB]
- Professorial lecture: Telling stories about nature - with mathematics - Professor David Waxman - Listen [MP3 18MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Can Human Society Learn from Insect Society? - Professor Francis L. W. Ratnieks - Listen [MP3 61MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Why science policy research? - Professor Ben R. Martin - Listen [MP3 43MB]
- Professorial Lecture: The EU and terrorism: a common threat and a common response? - Professor Jorg Monar - Listen [MP3 23MB]
- Professorial lecture: Communicating knowledge - Professor Ed Steinmueller - Listen [MP3 34MB]
- University of Sussex Lecture 2009: Deciphering the Universe - Professor Andrew Liddle - Listen [MP3. 13.6MB]
2008 lectures
- Professorial Lecture: Bibliophobia - Professor Brian Cummings - Listen [MP3 56MB]
- Professorial Lecture: 'I think I might even make a film…’: Francis Bacon; cinema, photography and fantasy - Professor David Mellor - Listen [MP3 24MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Simulating the universe: computer models of large-scale structure - Professor Peter Thomas - Listen MP3 45MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Human Mutations: the good, the bad and the indifferent - Professor Adam Eyre-Walker - Listen [MP3 46MB]
- 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 - Lord Briggs - Watch video (Quicktime streaming video)
- Renaming of Arts, A1, A2 lecture theatres in honour of Asa Briggs - Part 1: How religion has shaped secular scoiety - Professor Knud Haakonssen - Watch video (Quicktime streaming video)
- Professorial Lecture: European integration and representative politics - Professor Paul Taggart - Listen [MP3 8MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Innovation in East Asia: its Time for a New Policy Agenda - Professor Michael Hobday - Listen [MP3 15MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 16MB]
- Professorial Lecture: The flame of life - teaching old enzymes new tricks - Professor Andrew Smith - Listen [MP3 17MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Atrocity, apostacy and apocalypse: Newton’s radical heresy in the digital age - Professor Robert Iliffe - Listen [MP3 14MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Graphite – a new twist - Professor Malcolm I. Heggie - Listen [MP3 12MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Reading comprehension: losing the thread - Professor Jane Oakhill - Listen [MP3 15MB]
- University of Sussex Lecture 2008: Energy, climate change and nuclear power - Professor Gordon MacKerron - Quicktime streaming video.
2007 lectures
- Professorial Lecture: Regionalism and Deep Integration - Professor Jim Rollo - Listen [MP3 10MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 5MB]
- Professorial Lecture: From Ritual to Rights, or Dancing in the Archives - Professor Jane K. Cowan - Listen [MP3 15MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 16MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Perspectives within the EU: diversity or double vision? - Professor Keith Middlemas, Emeritus Professor - Listen [MP3 11MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Fingerprinting the Universe - Professor Andrew Liddle - Listen [MP3 13MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 3MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Protecting indigenous peoples in the British Empire - Professor Alan Lester - Listen [MP3 20MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 84KB]
- Professorial Lecture: The state in the era of globalisation - Professor Ronen Palan, Professor of International Relations and Politics - School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies - Listen [MP3 10MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 365KB]
- Professorial Lecture: Alcohol: A simple molecule with complex consequences for emotion and behaviour - Professor Theordora Duka - watch video (Quicktime)
- Professorial Lecture: Reality literature - Professor Nicholas Royle - Listen [MP3 11MB]
- Brighton and Sussex Medical School Inagural Lecture: Ethics, Life and Work - getting the balance right - Professor Bobbie Farsides - Listen [MP3 7MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Buildings for nation and locality in Tudor and Jacobean England - Professor Maurice Howard - Listen [MP3 12MB]
- A lecture celebrating the work of Michael Eraut and the refurbishment of the Chichester Lecture Theatre: Professional Learning in the Workplace - Professor Michael Eraut - Listen [MP3 12MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 9MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Transnational Classes and Global Political Economy - Professor Kees Van Der Pijl - Listen [MP3 3MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 2MB]
- University of Sussex Lecture 2007: A certain idea of Europe: can European integration survive eastern enlargement - Professor Alan Mayhew - Listen [MP3 16MB] or view presentation slides [PDF. 76KB].
2006 lectures
- Professorial Lecture: Hot Design - Professor Peter Childs - View presentation slides [PDF 2MB]
- Founding Historians’ Lecture: Europe at war, 1939-45: not freedom’s victory - Professor Norman Davies, Professor Emeritus, University of London; Supernumerary Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford; Honorary D. Litt, University of Sussex - Listen [MP3 15MB]
- Professorial Lecture: Potential drivers of economic development in the 21st century - Professor Sherman Robinson - Listen [MP3 10MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 276KB]
- Professorial Lecture: International law and the 'new' terrorism - Professor Craig Barker - Listen [MP3 7MB] or view presentation slides [PDF 82KB]
- University of Sussex Lecture 2006: The One Percent World - Managing the Myth of Religious Extremism - Professor Shamit Sagga - view presentation slides [PDF. 40KB]
2005 lectures

Professorial Lecture: Migrants, Refugees and Public Policy - Professor Richard Black - Flash slideshow

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