Upcoming Lectures

Lectures run fortnightly from September to March

Wednesday evenings, 7.30pm

Sir Charles Wilson Building

How to Customise a Planet by accident – what Future Fossils will reveal

When 8 January 2025
Where:Sir Charles Wilson Building, University of Glasgow

Professor Mark Williams, University of Leicester

Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
Mark Williams is a Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester and one of the longest serving members of the Anthropocene Working Group. He researches the evolution of the biosphere over geological timescales, and has published several popular science books on this theme, most recently ‘The Cosmic Oasis’.

22ndJanuary2025

Locusts, plagues and other disasters: why we’re made to survive adversity
Professor Helen Minnis, University of Glasgow

5thFebruary2025

Earth and ecological sciences: natural justice
Professor Lorna Dawson, James Hutton Institute

19thFebruary2025
Sarah Hart

A mathematical journey through literature
Professor Sarah Hart

5thMarch2025
Lindsay Paterson

What has happened to the democratic intellect? The neglect of knowledge in Scottish educational policy
Professor Lindsay Paterson

19thMarch2025
Muffy Calder

A day in the life of a computational modeller
Professor Dame Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow

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