List of Society Lectures 1999 to 2019
Speaker | Year | Topic Area | Lecture Title | ||
Barrow | John | 1999 | Physics, Cosmology | Life in the Universe | |
Ewing | Winifred | 1999 | Politics | A Suitable Job for a Woman | |
Haldane | John | 1999 | Philosophy | Philosophy in this Century and the Last | |
Rifkind | Malcolm | 1999 | Politics | Blessed are the Peacemakers | |
Cairncross | Frances | 2000 | Economics | The Death of Distance | |
Grant | Robert | 2000 | Literature | Fiction and Meaning | |
Greenfield | Susan | 2000 | Neuroscience | The Private Life of the Brain | |
Langair | Malcolm | 2000 | Particle Physics | Maxwell, Planck and the discovery of Quanta | |
Macgregor | Jimmie | 2000 | Entertainment | An Arctic Journey | |
Mavor | Ronald | 2000 | Arts General | Time and the Arts | |
McKinnon | Donald | 2000 | World Affairs | Forth and Clyde Canal--A Nation Divided | |
Morgan | Edwin | 2000 | Literature | Some Philosophical thoughts on Burns | |
Oppenheimer | Peter | 2000 | Economics | What Price Progress? | |
Peterson | John | 2000 | Politics/World Affairs | The US Presidential Election | |
Brown | Callum | 2001 | Scottish Church History | The Death of European Christian Culture | |
Galbraith | Roderick | 2001 | Aeronautics | Two Centuries of Flight | |
Holloway | Richard | 2001 | Religion ,Philosophy | The Wound of Religion | |
Lebrecht | Norman | 2001 | Music | The Meaning of Mahler | |
MacMillan | Duncan | 2001 | Art/Philosophy | Two Centuries of Art and Philosophy in Scotland | |
Pennington | Hugh | 2001 | Public Health | A Century of Food Poisoning | |
Rampton | Richard | 2001 | Law | Holocaust Denial: The Trial of the Century | |
Thorp | Nigel | 2001 | Visual Arts | The Ass and the Coxcomb--Whistler and Ruskin | |
Barr | Leslie | 2002 | The RPSG | The Society and Nobel Laureates | |
Black | James | 2002 | Pharmacology | A Brief History of Drug Invention | |
Deech | Ruth | 2002 | Public Health | The Future of Fertility | |
Fells | Ian | 2002 | Energy | The Future of Renewable Energy | |
McConnell | Bridget | 2002 | Arts Administration | Scotland's Cultural Future | |
Radcliffe-Richards | Janet | 2002 | Women's Rights | The Future of Feminism | |
Sheridan | Tommy | 2002 | Politics | A Century of Socialism | |
Stamp | Gavin | 2002 | Visual Arts | Sir Giles Gilbert Scott: Architect of the Century | |
Cowan | Ted | 2003 | History | 5/11 and the Fallout from 1603 | |
Hampton | Kay | 2003 | Public Health | A Fairer Future | |
Hough | Jim | 2003 | Physics | Ripples from the Dark Side of the Universe | |
Macdonald | Finlay | 2003 | Religion | The Moderator's Tale | |
McKellar | Quintin | 2003 | Ethics | The Future of Animal Welfare | |
McMillan | Nigel | 2003 | Diagnostics | The latest Developments in Medical Scanning | |
Reid | Heather | 2003 | Meteorology | Weather Forecasting in the 21st Century | |
Saxl | Otilla | 2003 | Technology | The Science of the Small: Nanotechnology | |
Sutherland | 2003 | Philosophy | Ideologies and Values | ||
Winetrobe | Barry | 2003 | Politics/World Affairs | The Evolution of Devolution | |
Blackburn | Simon. | 2004 | Philosophy | Fictions, Inventions and Ethics | |
Burland | John | 2004 | Engineering | Propping up the Leaning Tower of Pisa | |
Cairns Smith | Graham | 2004 | Medicine | Portrait of a truly Primitive Gene | |
Cubie | Andrew | 2004 | Education | Academic Rigour or Social Policy | |
Hellawell | Keith | 2004 | Addiction | Drugs in Society | |
Midgley | Mary | 2004 | Philosophy | Visions and Values: Western Global Ecology | |
Ogg | Derek | 2004 | Law | Just Law | |
Sharp | Craig | 2004 | Veterinary Science | Animal Athletes: Feats of Animal Physiology | |
Spurway | Neil | 2004 | Theology/Science | Science and Religion in the Third Millennium | |
Wilmut | Ian | 2004 | Cloning | The Future of Cloning | |
Afshar | Haleh | 2005 | Religion,Islam | Women's Rights and Islam-Can things change? | |
Ashcroft | Brain | 2005 | Economics | New Wealth for an old Nation? | |
Atiyah | Michael | 2005 | Mathematics | Einstein and the Nature of Space | |
Bond | Michael | 2005 | Psychiatry | Forty Years in Pain | |
Butt | John | 2005 | Music | Does Classical Music still exist? | |
Leather | Suzi | 2005 | Ethics | Test Tube Babies and Embryo Research | |
MacMillan | James | 2005 | Music | Music: the most spiritual of the Arts | |
Maxwell | Jeff | 2005 | GM crops | Old Crops: Parameters of Acceptance and Rejection | |
McCluskey | Lord | 2005 | Law | Whose Law? Religious and Legal Rights | |
Smith | John | 2005 | Pharmacology | Scientific Changes for Natural Medicine | |
Smith | Martin | 2005 | Geography | Drifting Continents and the Asian Tsunami | |
Stoddart | Sandy | 2005 | Sculpture | Costume, Drapery and the Decline of the Statue | |
Caddy | Brian | 2006 | Forensics | Forensic Science-Servant of the Legal Process | |
Craig | Carol | 2006 | Psychology | Negativity in Scotland's Culture and Consciousness | |
Crane | Tim | 2006 | Neuroscience | Can Science explain Consciousness? | |
Elliot | Alison | 2006 | Religion | Moderation in a World of Extremes | |
McAnemey | Billy | 2006 | Geography | Africa: What does the Future hold? | |
McDonald | Sheena | 2006 | Media | Sack the Clown; Governance, Media and the Law | |
McGrath | Alistair | 2006 | Religion | The Twilight of Atheism? | |
McLean | Colin | 2006 | Economics | The Strange Behaviour of Investors | |
Mithen | Steven | 2006 | Music | The Origins of Music and Language | |
O'Neill | Mark | 2006 | Visual Arts | Kelvingrove in the 21st Century | |
Reilly | David | 2006 | General Medicine | Healing in a Post-Industrial Age | |
Warwick | Kevin | 2006 | Technology | Hybrid Intelligence. Human and Machine Brains | |
Boulton | Geoffrey | 2007 | Geology | What is happening to Planet Earth? | |
Burnell | Jocelyn Bell | 2007 | Astronomy | What's going on in the Universe? | |
Conway-Morris | Simon | 2007 | Evolution | How Evolution dances to the Song of Creation | |
Fry | Michael | 2007 | History | State of the Union: how 1707 led to 2007 | |
Grayling | A.C. | 2007 | Philosophy | Defending the Enlightenment | |
Hanlon | Philip | 2007 | Public Health | Threats to Public Health in the 21st Century | |
Law | Stephen | 2007 | Psychology | The War for Children's Minds | |
Lorimer | David | 2007 | Philosophy | The Frontiers of Science. Consciousness and Spirituality | |
Manning | Aubrey | 2007 | Zoology | The Animals and Ourselves | |
Reilly | Patrick | 2007 | Literature | Decoding the Da Vinci Code | |
Skeldon | Ken | 2007 | Cosmology | Debunking the Moon Hoax Theory | |
Angiolini | Elish | 2008 | Law | Scots Law' What's Special about us? | |
Bown | Lalage | 2008 | Education/Feminism | Women, Words and the World | |
Burton | Michael | 2008 | Cognitive Psychology | Face Recognition: surveillance, security, perception | |
Hall | Wendy | 2008 | Computing | Towards a Science of the World Wide Web | |
Jeffreys | Alec | 2008 | Forensics | DNA Fingerprinting and Beyond | |
Macdonald | Murdo | 2008 | Visual Arts | Scotland's Art From Prehistory to the Present | |
McKeganey | Neil | 2008 | Addiction | Welcome to Scotland, Drug Capital of Europe | |
Newlands | George | 2008 | Theology/Ethics | Faith, Hospitality and Human Rights | |
Pollock | Allyson | 2008 | Public Health | The NHS and the Divergence of England and Scotland | |
Reedie | Craig | 2008 | Sports Administration | Civic Advantages of International Sporting Events | |
Taylor | Max | 2008 | Politics/World Affairs | How Terrorism can be understood and countered | |
Wallace | John | 2008 | Music | Music and Freedom | |
Williams | Shirley | 2008 | Politics/World Affairs | Politics and Principle | |
Black | Sue | 2009 | Forensic Anthropology | Forensic Anthropology in the Modern World | |
Cogdell | Richard | 2009 | Botany | What we can learn from Photosynthesis? | |
Dominiczak | Anna | 2009 | Genetics/Cardiology | Genes, Proteins and Patients | |
Evans | Martin | 2009 | Medicine General | Mice, Men and Medicine | |
Garrod | Simon | 2009 | Psychology | The New Science of Social Interaction | |
Hendry | Martin | 2009 | Physics | Cosmology:Why are we here? | |
Humes | Walter | 2009 | Education | Education, Citizenship and Democracy | |
Jones | Steve | 2009 | Evolution | Why Darwin was right and the Creationists are wrong | |
McLennan | Andrew | 2009 | Sociology | Inside Barlinnie: the first 24 Hours | |
Roaf | Sue | 2009 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Three degrees of climate change | |
Robertson | Ian | 2009 | Music | Operatic Medicine? Doctors in Opera | |
Smith | Catherine | 2009 | Literature | The Dignity of Man--Robert Burns | |
Wolpert | Louis | 2009 |
| Religion | Belief and the Evolution of Religion |
Barker | John | 2010 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | The smile on the face of the Quantum | |
Brindley | Lynne | 2010 | Librarianship | The Role of National Libraries in the 21st Century | |
Burdon | Roy | 2010 | Visual Arts | Culture Fusion: Arts/Science/Arts | |
Crawford | Dorothy | 2010 | Medicine General | Microbes and us | |
Cushieri | Alfred | 2010 | Medicine General | Operating from Images | |
Ferguson | Niall | 2010 | History | The 1970s in Historical Perspective | |
Glover | Anne | 2010 | Global Warming | Is Manmade Climate Change our Greatest Challenge? | |
McConnell | Jack | 2010 | Politics | Impact of Devolution on Scotland's Place in the World | |
McDonald | Jan | 2010 | Theatre History | Women Performers in 19thC British Theatre | |
McKinnon | Jim | 2010 | Geography | From Skara Brae to sustainable Communities | |
Reid | Harry | 2010 | Religion | Why we should be grateful to Luther Calvin and Knox | |
Tallis | Raymond | 2010 | Visual Arts | Aping Mankind; Darwinism, yes : Darwinist, no | |
Campbell | Gordon | 2011 | Religion | The King James Bible-Language and Literature | |
Crowe | Victoria | 2011 | Visual Arts | Inspiration and Process: the Creative Journey | |
Frith | Chris | 2011 | Psychology | What is Consciousness for? | |
Ion | Sue | 2011 | Energy | 21stC Energy: Challenges and Food for Thought | |
Maslen | Rob | 2011 | Literature | Fantasy from The Front: Mervyn Peake | |
McDonald | Stuart | 2011 | History | Procurement of Cadavers by Anatomists In 19thC | |
Purser | John | 2011 | Musicology | Scotland's Landscape as Music | |
Reid | George | 2011 | Politics | Getting to 'YES' | |
Richardson | Louise | 2011 | Terrorism/World Affairs | Understanding Terrorism | |
Roderick A McD Galbraith | 2011 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | What nature did and did not give aerospace | ||
Stringer | Chris | 2011 | Evolution | The Origin of our Species | |
Venables | Jean | 2011 | Global Warming | Water and Climate Change in Food Production | |
Wilson | Chick | 2011 | Chemistry | Mysterious Case of Misbehaving Molecules | |
Winder | Simon | 2011 | History | Germanic Tribes in 16thC Europe | |
Burn | John | 2012 | Genetics | Twins, Genes and Stem Cells:in search of self | |
Cannadine | David | 2012 | History | the British Monarchy becoming constitutional | |
Chakrabati | Shami | 2012 | Human Rights | Common Values in the Human Rights Act | |
Esakovitz | Leonard | 2012 | Visual Arts | Why take Photographs? | |
Esakowitz | Leonard | 2012 | Members' Talks | Why take photographs? | |
Graham | Elizabeth | 2012 | Archaeology | The Maya: their Calendar and Apocalypse to come | |
Neilson | June | 2012 | Members' Talks | The Antonine Wall: a wall too far? | |
Nielsen | June | 2012 | History | The Antonine Wall: a Wall too far? | |
O'Neill | Onora | 2012 | Philosophy | Do we need to rethink Press Freedom? | |
Philbrick | Dick | 2012 | Business/ Economics | Employee Ownership | |
Philbrick | Dick | 2012 | Members' Talks | Employee ownership: path to prosperity and antidote to alienation? | |
Sharkey | Noel | 2012 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Robots that can help us and hurt us | |
Shenkin | Alan | 2012 | Nutrition | Micronutrient Supplements and Disease | |
Wilson | Jim | 2012 | Genetics | Scotland's DNA | |
Armstrong | Karen | 2013 | Religion, Philosophy | Compassion | |
Blakemore | Colin | 2013 | Neuroscience | Vision Impossible | |
Bone | Ian | 2013 | Neurology | Charles Dickens and the Art of Medical Observation | |
Calder | Muffy | 2013 | Computing | Computational Thinking | |
Cohen | Philp | 2013 | Pharmacology | New Drugs in the 21stC | |
Holloway | James | 2013 | Visual Arts | Portrait of a Nation: Scotland's Portrait Gallery | |
Kennedy | Dermot | 2013 | Members' Talks | Lister, Glasgow and antisepsis: confluences that changed the world | |
Little | Alan | 2013 | World Affairs | Europe in an Age of Fear | |
Macdonald | Jim | 2013 | Ecology | Low Carbon Living | |
Macniven | Duncan | 2013 | History | Scotland's People--1855-2011 | |
Monaghan | Pat | 2013 | Members' Talks | An insight into the life and legacy of Alexander Wilson, Ornithologist | |
Patten | Chris | 2013 | World Affairs | Collapsing Certainties:changing World order | |
Rees | Martin | 2013 | Cosmology | Life in the Cosmos: Planets, Galaxies and the Universe | |
Sanderson | David | 2013 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | 2013 was the centenary of 'isotope' first appearing in print, in a letter from Glasgow's Frederick Soddy | |
Sanderson | David | 2013 | Chemistry | Science Festival Lecture | |
Warren | John | 2013 | Members' Talks | A light shining in dark places: the legacy of Thomas Aikenhead | |
Withers | Charles | 2013 | Geography | Scotland's Cartographic History | |
Adams | Carol | 2014 | Business | Responsibility in Business | |
Card | Nick | 2014 | Archaeology | Excavations at Neolithic site Brodgar Orkney | |
Curtice | John | 2014 | Politics | Is Scotland set to Separate? | |
Deary | Ian | 2014 | Aging | Heathy Cognitive Aging | |
Gallagher | Jamie | 2014 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Indestructible Energy | |
Gorman. Daniel | 2014 | Members' Talks | James Clerk Maxwell | ||
Gray | Muir | 2014 | Public Health | The Third Healthcare Revolution | |
Greig | David | 2014 | Theatre | Theatre and Anthropology | |
Long | Philip | 2014 | Visual Arts | V &A Dundee | |
McCluskey | Karen | 2014 | Psychology/Public Health | Medics against Violence | |
Morris | Andrew | 2014 | Public Health | Health Science Research in Scotland | |
Stott | David | 2014 | Members' Talks | Antikythera Mechanism | |
Vousden | Karen | 2014 | Oncology | Why is Cancer so rare? | |
Wilson | David | 2014 | World Affairs | China Awakening | |
Ansari | Ali | 2015 | Modern History | Iran and the British Question | |
Archer | Janet | 2015 | Arts Admin | Unlocking Potential, Embracing Ambition | |
Campbell | Steve | 2015 | Members' Talks | Photography | |
Eaves | Laurence | 2015 | Physics | Graphene | |
Gilmore | Ian | 2015 | Addiction | Alcohol:Coping with our Favourite drug | |
Hobbs | Angela | 2015 | Philosophy | Philosophy and the Good Life | |
Mitchell | William | 2015 | Members' Talks | Making of the Baton for the Commonwealth Games | |
Shipton | Zoe | 2015 | Geology/ Engineering | Ethics of Energy Supply in 21stC | |
Spector | Timothy | 2015 | Genetics | How you can change your Genes | |
Stewart | Mhairi | 2015 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | What have bacteria done for us? | |
Strachan | Huw | 2015 | History | Centenary of WW1: Commemoration or Celebration? | |
Yellowlees | Lesley | 2015 | Women in Science | Women in Science | |
Aitken | Jonathan | 2016 | Politics, Religion | Reforming our Prisons-Purposes and Practicalities | |
Barker | John | 2016 | Members' Talks | Through the Webbit Hole: a Guide to royalphil.org | |
Calderwood | Catherine | 2016 | Public Health | The Philosophy of Realistic Medicine | |
Finkel | Irving | 2016 | Ancient History | The Ark before Noah | |
Foster | Russell | 2016 | Neuroscience | A New Understanding of the Eye | |
Fraser | Mary | 2016 | Members' Talks | Controversies over the Great War Separation Allowance: Views of the Police | |
Fyfe | Maria | 2016 | Members' Talks | Mary Barbour | |
Greenan | Lily | 2016 | Women's Rights | Violence against Women in Scotland | |
Haugh | Joanne | 2016 | Global Warming | Climate Change | |
Inns | Tom | 2016 | Design, Education | Design Thinking in 21st Century | |
Jaspars | Marcel | 2016 | Pharmacology | Extreme Drug Discovery | |
Kirkwood | Tom | 2016 | Aging | What Price Immortality? | |
McFadden | Jean | 2016 | Glasgow Local Govt | Glasgow's Miles Better? A personal view | |
NicDaeid | Niamh | 2016 | Forensic Science | Does Forensic Science have a Future? | |
Rowan | Sheila | 2016 | Cosmology | Gravitational Waves-a new Astronomy? | |
Scott | Sophie | 2016 | Neuroscience | The Science of Laughter | |
Shirlaw | Derek | 2016 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Future fuels | |
(No name) | 2017 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Connect with maths (talk and workshops for school age) | ||
Bruzzi | Stella | 2017 | Film | The Law in Media Entertainment | |
Grady | Monica | 2017 | Cosmology | Landing on a Comet | |
Jebb | Susan | 2017 | Nutrition | Improving the Nation's Diet | |
Leask | Nigel | 2017 | Literature | Thomas Pennants Scottish Tours 1760-72 | |
Macdonald.Ken | 2017 | Law | Freedom in a dangerous World | ||
McColl | Jim | 2017 | Business | Renewal and Regeneration of Businesses | |
McCulloch | Diarmaid | 2017 | Religion/History | The Reformation Half a Millennium Later | |
Pirmohamed | Munir | 2017 | Genetics | Personalised Medicine> Can NHS afford it? | |
Rogers | Paul | 2017 | Politics/Public Affairs | Lost Cause? The War on Terror | |
Seldon | Antony | 2017 | Education/Philosophy | Waste of 20thC Academic Philosophy | |
Barker | John | 2018 | Physics and Astronomy | The Exploration of Space: the Austerity Years | |
Burns | Harry | 2018 | Public Health | Wellbeing-What is it and what causes it? | |
Hennessey | Peter | 2018 | Politics, History | Writing the History of One's own Time | |
Hutton | Will | 2018 | Public Affairs | The Enlightenment under Siege | |
Ingold | Tim | 2018 | Sociology | On Building a University for the Common Good | |
Jeffrey | Kate | 2018 | Neuroscience | Illuminating Memory: optogenetics and the new science of the mind | |
Menzies | Kirsty | 2018 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Visualising two of Glasgow's Marys: how women have shaped and are shaping the political and scientific life of Glasgow | |
Millar | Keith | 2018 | History | Franklin's Arctic Expedition 1845 | |
Morris | Jane | 2018 | Psychiatry | Psychotherapy in Scotland today | |
Nurse | Paul | 2018 | Genetics | Great Ideas in Biology | |
O'Hagan | Angela | 2018 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Visualising two of Glasgow's Marys: how women have shaped and are shaping the political and scientific life of Glasgow | |
Palmer | Tim | 2018 | Meteorology | Predicting the Weather | |
Roberts | Carolyn | 2018 | Environment | Managing our Water Environment | |
Thomas | Sharon | 2018 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Visualising two of Glasgow's Marys: how women have shaped and are shaping the political and scientific life of Glasgow | |
Welsh | Louise | 2018 | Literature | Dystopia And Nostalgia in Apocalypse Fiction | |
Winfield | Alan | 2018 | Robotics/Ethics | The Thinking Robot | |
Bruford | Mike | 2019 | Genetics/ Biodiversity | Why Genetic Biodiversity matters | |
O'Donovan | Michael | 2019 | Genetics | Genes and Mental Illness | |
Paul | Douglas | 2019 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Nanotechnology | |
Phipps | Alison | 2019 | World Affairs/Education | Refugee Integration Through Languages and the Arts | |
Sands | Philippe | 2019 | Law/World Affairs | Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity | |
Calman | Kenneth | 1999/2015 | Public Health | Risk and its Communication/Happiness | |
Susskind | Richard | 2002/17 | Law/Computing Science | Clicks and Mortals/The Future of The Professions | |
MacSween | Roderick | 2003/2010 | General Medicine | The Future of Medical Care | |
McInnes | Colin | 2008/2015 | Engineering | Engineering, Energy and the Environment/Energy Transmissions-past and Present | |
Broadie | Alexander | 2013/2017 | Philosophy | David Hume/Public Intellectuals |