Details of the 2005-2006 Inaugural Lectures. All lectures will take place at 5.15pm unless otherwise stated. HTML 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" This article was published on 2024-08-28
HTML 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"
