Lecture

Sasha Rasmussen (University of Nottingham) 'Desperate Circumstances: Negotiating Abortion as Crime and Healthcare in the Late Russian Empire'

12:00 - 13:30 28 October 2026
Sasha Rasmussen (University of Nottingham) 'Desperate Circumstances: Negotiating Abortion as Crime and Healthcare in the Late Russian Empire' History Research Seminar, hosted by Europe…

'The gender pay gap amongst high educated workers' - Arthur Lewis Lecture

17:00 - 19:30 17 November 2026
Join us for the Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture as our guest speaker Dame Rachel Griffith, Professor of Economics, reflects on the gender pay gap, and why it is still so prevalent in highly…

Daniel Siemens (Newcastle University), 'A story with a happy ending? Writing the biography of the German-Jewish photographer Fred Stein (1909-1967) today'

15:00 - 17:00 18 November 2026
Daniel Siemens (Newcastle University), 'A story with a happy ending? Writing the biography of the German-Jewish photographer Fred Stein (1909-1967) today' History Research Seminar, hosted by Modern British Studies

Lovell Lecture: Monster Black Holes in the Early Universe

19:30 - 21:00 26 November 2026
Join Dr Rebecca Bowler, senior lecturer at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, for a Lovell Lecture exploring the earliest supermassive black holes and how they came to dominate…

The Rylands Lecture 2026 with Dr Christopher de Hamel

18:00 - 20:00 26 November 2026
The annual Rylands Lecture is very pleased to announce this years guest lecturer as Christopher de Hamel, who will be presenting a facinating talk on the world-famous Hours of Etienne…

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