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School and College Bookings
If you are from a UK school or sixth form college and want to bring a school group to one of our free, public lectures, please get in touch by emailing schools@gresham.ac.uk
When there is room, we can usually reserve up to 20 spaces, but occasionally we can do more. Please note tickets are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
You may be able to recieve a grant towards travel from the City of London. Find out more
We also live-stream all our lectures and leave them online so that you can show them again in the classroom, or your students can watch them in their own time.
Schools-only events
We also broadcast ‘schools-only’ talks on a variety of subjects, mostly in the early afternoon. Below you can read about this term's schools' lectures. To sign up to watch a schools' lecture on live-stream, please email schools@gresham.ac.uk and indicate which lecture(s) you would like – and a link will be sent to you in advance.
You can also learn about future events by joining our schools newsletter.
SCHOOLS' LECTURES THIS TERM:
Love in Literature
Wednesday 29 January 2025 • 2-3pm
John Mullan, Former Gresham Visiting Professor of English Literature
This lecture will look closely at depictions of love in fiction, poetry, and drama. What makes these depictions believable? How do poets avoid cliché and sentimentality? And how do writers allow us to know more about characters’ feelings than the characters themselves? To answer this last question, we will look at some declarations of love and proposals of marriage in drama and fiction. We will cover literary works from Shakespeare to the present (or very near it).
The Trouble With AI
Wednesday 12 February 2025 • 2-3pm
Victoria Baines, Gresham IT Livery Company Professor of Information Technology
This lecture will focus on AI, fake-news, the impact of deep-fake imagery, and focus on where young people are getting their information (or mis-information) from online.
The Ethics and Politics of Singling Out
Wednesday 2 April 2025 • 2-3pm
Melissa Lane, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric
Suppose that two children – or two criminals – or two states – have committed the same crime. Is it wrong to condemn just one of them? This lecture explores the ethics and politics of singling out one for blame or punishment, whether in the playground or in the arena of world politics. This lecture will consider whether motivation matters at all. The possibility of mixed motives; and the relevance of an individual’s own record of conduct when criticising that of others.