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Professor Kate Dossett

Kate Dossett is an award-winning historian of the twentieth century United States with broad interests in cultural and political history and specializations in African American History, Gender histories and histories of the African Diaspora. She has been teaching and researching

Dr Malachi McIntosh

Malachi McIntosh is an Associate Professor of World Literatures in English at the University of Oxford and the Barbara Pym Tutorial Fellow in English at St. Hilda’s College. He is the author of Emigration and Caribbean Literature (2015) and the

Professor Tony Travers

Professor Tony Travers is director of LSE London, a research centre at the London School of Economics. He is also a professor in the LSE’s Government Department. His key research interests include public finance, local/regional government and London government. He

Dr Victoria Bateman

Dr Victoria Bateman is an economic historian and author of books including Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power (Headline Press, August 2025), Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty (Polity, 2023) and The Sex Factor: How

Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf

Distinguished University Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Amsterdam and President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Dijkgraaf studied physics and mathematics at Utrecht University. He gained his PhD cum laude in 1989 with

Women in Science Fiction

For thousands of years, some men assumed that the original or ideal human type was male, with women being pictured as weaker or imperfect men. This ancient prejudice inspired fictions from E.T.A. Hoffman’s The Sandman (1816) to Ira Levin’s novel The Stepford Wives (1972). This lecture looks at fantasies of artificial women (usually seen by their male creators as superior to biological women) to examine the complex connections between science and assumptions about the supposed naturalness of gender roles.

Dr Nathan Robinson

Dr Nathan Robinson is a Marine Biologist and Science Communicator whose research answers important ecological questions while simultaneously engaging global audiences in marine issues

Dr Laura Davison

Dr Laura Davison is the Head of Research at the City of London Corporation where she runs a programme spanning local communities and demographics, infrastructure, regulation and taxation, emerging markets and global competitiveness. She has worked on a wide range of projects

Professor Robin May appointed Gresham Professor of Physic

Gresham College, London’s oldest Higher Education Institution, is delighted to announce the appointment

Press release:Did Shakespeare think of a number?

26 Sep 2024 Gresham College to explore the Bard’s equations in free lecture

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