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Experimental Gardens from Francis Bacon to Today

This lecture will begin with Bacon’s imagined garden, then consider the long-term promise of the experimental or scientific garden, which would eventually lead to today’s biotechnologies.

Have Women Achieved Professional Equality? 100 years since the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act

2019 marks 100 years since the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 when a woman was recognised as a ‘person’ in law. This groundbreaking Act enabled women to be awarded university degrees and to enter professions such as law and medicine from which they had been barred.

Human Traffic: Race and Post-War Migration Policy

In the years after 1945 successive British governments set out to weaponise the nation’s immigration policy.

How to Avert a Climate Catastrophe

After the UN Climate Action Summit in September, our Environment Professor will be talking to three experts about whether we still have a meaningful chance of averting a climate catastrophe, and how we can get there.

Exploring Earth from Space

Today the earth is opening up its secrets as never before.

Energy and Matter at the Origin of Life

The origin of life is one of the biggest questions in science, but until recently it was, experimentally, a question in chemistry. Now, gene sequences and a better understanding of cell growth under extreme conditions are giving insights from biology.

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Experimental Gardens from Francis Bacon to Today

Have Women Achieved Professional Equality? 100 years since the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act

Human Traffic: Race and Post-War Migration Policy

How to Avert a Climate Catastrophe

Exploring Earth from Space

Energy and Matter at the Origin of Life

Is There Danger Ahead With AI: Superintelligence, Ethics, Work, Leisure and Automation

Jesus, Hitler and the Abolition of God

The Intertwined Impacts of Pollution and Inequality on Health

How Can We Stop Pollution?

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