Details of the 2005-2006 Inaugural Lectures.
All lectures will take place at 5.15pm unless otherwise stated.
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| Date and venue | Speaker | Title of lecture |
|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2005, 2pm - Martin Hall, New College | Timothy Lim: Personal Chair of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism (Divinity) | "The Greatest Manuscript Discovery: the Dead Sea Scrolls in Context" |
| 27 September 2005 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Martin Pickering: Chair of the Psychology of Language and Communication (PPLS) | "What do I mean and why do I mean it? The mechanisms of language and communication" |
| 1 November 2005 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Anthony Good: Personal Chair of Social Anthropology in Practice (SPS) | "Writing as a Kind of Anthropology: Alternative Professional Genres" |
| 8 November 2005 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Robert Logie: Chair of Human Cognitive Science (PPLS) | "When working memory does not work: Exploring the healthy and impaired mental workspace" |
| 29 November 2005 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Sarah Colvin: Eudo C Mason Chair of German (SPS) | "Reading the lives of violent and criminal women (as a literary critic and a feminist)" |
| 24 January 2006 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Remo Pedreschi: Personal Chair of Architectural Technology (ECA) | "To Engineer is Human" |
| 14 February 2006 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Andy Clark: Chair of Logic and Metaphysics (PPLS) | "Embodiment and the Sciences of the Mind" |
| 28 February 2006 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Jeremy Robbins: Forbes Chair of Hispanic Studies (LLC) | "Baroque Space: Reality and Illusion in Velázquez and Coello" |
| 28 March 2006 - Lecture Theatre 183, Old College | Charlie Jeffery: Chair of Politics (SPS) | "A Regional Rescue of the Nation-State? Reflections on Territory and Politics" |
| 18 April 2006 - Lecture Theatre 175, Old College | Andy Snell: Personal Chair of Economics and Econometrics | The statistical relationship between the FTSE -100 and the price of beef: is it just Bullocks? |
| 2nd May - George Square Lecture Theatre | Thomas Devine: Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History (HCA) | "In Bed with an Elephant: Almost Three Hundred Years of the Anglo-Scottish Union" |
| 9 May 2006 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Peter Rosa: George David Chair of Entrepreneurship and Family Business (Economics) | "Continuity, entrepreneurship and the family business" |
| 17 May 2006 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Sergio Della Sala: Chair of Human Cognitive Neuroscience (PPLS) | "The Mind is Somewhere North of the Neck" |
| 30 May 2006 - Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower | Richard Sparks: Chair of Criminology (Law) | "Anxiety, legitimacy and the shape of criminology" |
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