Gresham College
Free, public lectures across the Arts & Sciences | Since 1597
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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
