Gresham College
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- Today at 6pm: Oil, Decolonisation and the Future of the Climate Emergency Watch: gres.hm/oil-decoloni... Prof Adam Hanieh (@exeter.ac.uk) explores how #decolonisation movements sought to win sovereignty and control over national resources, especially oil... Sponsored by @isrfoundation.bsky.social
- How does surveillance work? Watch more via: gres.hm/how-surveill... Prof @cyberbaines.bsky.social explores how we humans create technologies to keep a close watch on each other, and the ingenious methods used to counter them... #digitalsurveillance #cybersecurity
- Today at 6pm: Modern Pagan Witchcraft Watch live via: gres.hm/modern-pagan... Professor Ronald Hutton looks at its origins and the roots of #Wicca's success across the Western world and discusses what modern Pagan witches actually do, and why they do it...
- Today at 6pm: The Troubled Brain: Ageing and Dementia Watch via: gres.hm/troubled-brain Prof @alaingoriely.bsky.social shows how mathematical modelling can be used to predict dementia’s progression by unravelling some of its universal features. @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social
- In-person tickets open: Illuminating the Dark Side of the Moon Book via: gres.hm/dark-side-moon Prof @miltonline.bsky.social looks at this seminal album by #PinkFloyd, which remains the perfect example of a concept album; @RichMixLondon @uniofsurrey.bsky.social
- Tickets open: The Future of Immunity gres.hm/future-immunity Our understanding of our immune system is vastly different from 50 years ago, w/ modern therapies that would have once seemed like science fiction. @robinmay9.bsky.social asks: what next for #immunity? @imibirmingham.bsky.social
- Tickets open! Join Professor of Environment, Myles Allen’s final Gresham lecture: Carbon Takeback: How We Stop Fossil Fuels from Causing Global Warming Why must CO₂ disposal be mandatory for fossil fuel sale & use? gres.hm/carbon-takeback @oxfordnetzero.bsky.social @oxfordphysics.bsky.social
- In-person tickets open: Democracy and International Criminal Justice in the Fragile World of the Rule of Law Book via: gres.hm/grays-inn-25 Our Annual Gray's Inn Reading, given this year by Sir Howard Morrison KC #law #internationallaw #greshamcollege
- Happy VE Day 2025! To celebrate the anniversary of the end of war in Europe, we revisit Prof Peter Larkham's lecture 'Replanning London after the Second World War', exploring the reconstruction of post-Blitz London... Watch via: gres.hm/replanning-l... #VEDay #VEDay2025 #VE80 #WW2 #WorldWar2
- Today at 6pm: Do Computers Get Sick? How Humans and Computers Fight Viruses Watch via: gres.hm/computer-virus Profs @robinmay9.bsky.social & @cyberbaines.bsky.social ask whether there are similarities between human & #computer immunity? Can we use discoveries in one to help protect the other?
- What happened when Neo-Druid leader Arthur Pendragon was charged in 1997 for carrying an 'offensive weapon' (his sword Excalibur)? In this lecture, Prof Ronald Hutton reveals how ancient Druids inspire the modern imagination as heroic ancestors and demonic villains... Watch: gres.hm/modern-druids
- In-person tickets open: Sum Stories: Equations and their Origins Book via: gres.hm/sum-stories In our annual lecture w/ @London Mathematical Society, Gresham Prof Emeritus of #Geometry, Robin Wilson* explores renowned mathematical equations & their history *also of @openuniversity.bsky.social
- How do vaccines work? Prof @robinmay9.bsky.social explains how #vaccination changed the world, saving millions of lives and enabling us to eradicate a lethal disease for the first time in human history... Watch full lecture: gres.hm/how-vaccines #immunology #vaccine
- In-person tickets open: Blind Spots & Bad Decisions: Why We Fall for Financial Traps Book via: gres.hm/financial-traps Gresham Professor of Business, Professor Raghavendra Rau asks, why do smart people make dumb financial choices? #business
- Today @ 7.30pm: From Thin Air: Minimalist and Process Music from Africa to Arvo Pärt Live from RichMix, London via: gres.hm/process-music Prof @miltonline.bsky.social unpacks the processes behind #minimalist works & reveals the quiet, elegant mechanisms underpinning their musical power
- Today at 6pm: Shanawdithit: A Woman at the End of the World Watch live: gres.hm/shanawdithit Prof Julia Laite* of @bbkhistorical.bsky.social on the life of the last Beothuk woman, & the violent history of #Newfoundland, England’s first transatlantic colony Hosted w/ @isrfoundation.bsky.social
- In-person tickets open: From Machiavelli to Nietzsche: How Modern Thinkers Saw Ancient Lawgivers gres.hm/modern-thinkers Prof Melissa Lane assesses how some consider the figure of the lawgiver as important to the founding of civic identity & cultural values *also of @princetonpolitics.bsky.social
- Today at 6pm: Does Net Zero Mean the End of Livestock Agriculture? Watch live via: gres.hm/net-zero-agr... Prof Myles Allen explains how understanding methane’s true impact shows that a radically-changed livestock industry could be compatible with a stable climate @oxfordnetzero.bsky.social
- In-person tickets open: A New Sky Book: gres.hm/new-sky Prof @chrislintott.bsky.social discusses the latest from the JWST's studies of the early universe, a place lit up by what appears to have been a much more spectacular burst of activity than anyone expected @oxfordphysics.bsky.social
- Congratulations Liverpool FC! Want to know the pre-football history behind #YoullneverWalkAlone? Join @profdombm.bsky.social this Friday at 7.30pm. Live online, and in-person at Conway hall Book free via: gres.hm/operatic-sho... #YNWA #liverpool #LIVTOT #liverpoolfc
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- In-person tickets open: Taking the Constitution into the Classroom Book via: gres.hm/constitution... A British constitution would have to emerge through debates held amongst the next generation. Prof Clive Stafford Smith examines how schools might be a good environment to foster this...
- Live @ 6pm: Why Are Cities Going Bankrupt? Stream via: gres.hm/cities-bankrupt Prof Martin Daunton asks, why have cities lost the confident civic pride of the Victorian era and now struggle to provide basic services from a limited financial base? What can be done?
- The photographer as witness... Professor Tamar Garb* explores the debates and dialogues that characterised documentary photography in Apartheid South Africa, between 1948 and 1994. Watch more: gres.hm/photography-... * also of @ucl.ac.uk
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- Tickets open: The Moral Case for Stealing Data gres.hm/stealing-data #IT has given us new means to obtain protected data. To some, #hackers are heroes. To others, they are criminals. @WCITLivery Prof @cyberbaines.bsky.social asks, who decides if they are to be protected or prosecuted?
- Tickets open: Oil, Decolonisation, and the Future of the Climate Emergency Book: gres.hm/oil-decoloni... Prof Adam Hanieh* reveals how nat'l independence movements fought to control resources like oil. This demonstrated both decolonisation's successes and limits... *of @tninstitute.bsky.social
- Tickets open: Modern #Pagan Witchcraft Book: gres.hm/modern-pagan... Prof Ronald Hutton looks at the origins of #Wicca and the roots of its success across the Western world, as well as exploring what modern Pagan witches actually do, and why they do it...
- In-person tickets open: The Troubled Brain: Ageing and Dementia Book via: gres.hm/troubled-brain Prof @alaingoriely.bsky.social shows how mathematical modelling can be used to predict dementia’s progression by unravelling some of its universal features. @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social
- Today at 6pm: What Rights and Duties are Missing from the U.S. Constitution? Watch live via: gres.hm/missing-us-c... Prof Clive Stafford Smith explores if the #USConstitution should be an organic document that grows with the times. What unenumerated rights might be added? #law #usa
- Today at 6pm: A World Remade by Decolonization? Watch: gres.hm/world-decolo... Prof. Martin Thomas @exeter.ac.uk explores the collapse of European colonialism in the 20th century through global history, comparative politics & international relations... Sponsored by @isrfoundation.bsky.social
- Today at 6pm: How Surveillance Works Watch live via: gres.hm/how-surveill... Gresham Professor @cyberbaines.bsky.social explores our use of technologies to defend ourselves, by gathering intelligence on our enemies... #DigitalSurveillance #CyberSecurity
- Tickets open: Do Computers Get Sick? How Humans and Computers Fight Viruses Book: gres.hm/computer-virus Prof @robinmay9.bsky.social asks whether there are similarities between human immunity & computer immunity? Can we use discoveries in one to help protect the other? @imibirmingham.bsky.social
- We are delighted to announce that Gresham College Professor Emerita of Geometry, @sarah-hart.bsky.social, has been appointed Acting Provost, returning to help curate the next academic programme. Read more:gres.hm/sh-acting-pr...
- Book free, in-person tickets: The Operatic Showstopper: ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ gres.hm/operatic-sho... @profdombm.bsky.social on this classic from the film Carousel (1945) - perhaps Rodgers and Hammerstein’s most operatic song...
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- Today at 7pm: The LGBT+ Showstopper: ‘I Am What I Am’ Watch online: gres.hm/lgbt-showsto... @profdombm.bsky.social explores the history and cultural impact of 'I Am What I Am', from the 1983 Broadway musical 'La Cage aux Folles'
- Today at 6pm: Modern Druids Watch live via: gres.hm/modern-druids Prof Ronald Hutton, looks at the different ways ancient #Druids have inspired the modern imagination, both as heroic ancestors and demonic villains..
- In-person tickets open: From Thin Air: Minimalist and Process Music from Africa to Arvo Pärt gres.hm/process-music Prof @miltonline.bsky.social unpacks the processes behind celebrated #minimalist works and reveals the quiet, elegant mechanisms underpinning their musical power...
- Free tickets open: Shanawdithit: A Woman at the End of the World gres.hm/shanawdithit Prof Julia Laite of @bbkhistorical.bsky.social on the life of the last Beothuk women, and the violent history of #Newfoundland, England’s first transatlantic colony Sponsored by the @isrfoundation.bsky.social
- In-person tickets open: Does Net Zero Mean the End of Livestock Agriculture? gres.hm/net-zero-agr... Prof Myles Allen explains how understanding methane’s true impact shows that a radically-changed livestock industry could be compatible with a stable climate @oxfordnetzero.bsky.social
- We are recruiting! Provost, Gresham College Find out more: www.minervasearch.com/current-oppo... Gresham College seeks an exceptional academic as its new Provost, to provide academic leadership to the College, chairing Gresham’s Academic Board and overseeing our public lectures.
- Today at 6pm: Architecture of Enslavement, Colonialism and Independence: The Story of James Fort in Accra Watch online: gres.hm/james-fort Elsie Owusu OBE explores this historic building, from its role in the early European-African encounters... #ghana #africanhistory
- Enjoyed our lecture on #vaccines this evening? Keep the conversation going! Join @britsocimm.bsky.social on social media to #CelebrateVaccines today! Explore their vaccine resources and help spread positive vaccine stories. Click here for more on how to get involved: bit.ly/3Rasp6s
- Reposted by Gresham CollegeI'll be speaking at @greshamcollege.bsky.social on 30 April about my new research; on a subject that is profoundly important to me and to the world (even if few have heard of this incredible woman and her people). Register to attend in person or online here: www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/sha...
- Today @ 6pm: How Do Vaccines Work? Watch live: gres.hm/how-vaccines Prof @robinmay9.bsky.social explores how a vaccine actually works, why mRNA vaccines are truly groundbreaking & why we can’t simply vaccinate against everything #CelebrateVaccines @britsocimm.bsky.social #immunology
- Today at 6pm: Documentary Photography in Apartheid South Africa Watch live online via: gres.hm/photography-... Prof Tamar Garb* looks at debates and dialogues that characterise realist photography in #Apartheid South Africa, from 1948 to 1994. * also of @ucl.ac.uk
- Why Are Cities Going Bankrupt? Book free tickets: gres.hm/cities-bankrupt Prof Martin Daunton* asks, why have cities lost the confident civic pride of the Victorian era and now struggle to provide basic services from a limited financial base? What can be done? *also of @camhistory.bsky.social
- Is the First Amendment the greatest right of all? Watch full lecture: gres.hm/first-amendm... Professor of Law Clive Stafford Smith asks, is the First Amendment the most important of all rights in the Constitution? How might it apply to the UK? #law #freespeech #USA #UK
- In-person tickets open: Asteroid Adventures Book: gres.hm/asteroid-adv... Prof @chrislintott.bsky.social considers two missions: Lucy, which flies past #asteroid #DonaldJohanson in April, & OSIRIS-ReX, which recently returned from the worryingly-near-Earth asteroid #Bennu...
- Leave a gift in your Will to Gresham College! Find out more: gres.hm/gift-will "Your legacy will inspire and empower future generations, ensuring the pursuit of knowledge and excellence continues to thrive." — Prof Robert Allison CBE DL, Gresham College Chair of Council
