Public lectures at the University
The programme for 2006/7 includes the following lectures to which members of the general public, staff and students are all very welcome. The list will be updated as more lecture titles become available.
This month's lectures
The lecture series has finished for this year. Watch out for the new programme in autumn.
Previous lectures
Thursday 14 September 2006
7.30pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
John F.W. Herschel - Son of William Herschel
Professor Brian Warner - University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Wednesday 4 October 2006
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
The Future for Bath Vision - 'Town and gown': the opportunities
John Betty - Director of Development and Major Projects for B&NES
Rhodri Samuel - Regeneration Manager
Friday 6 October 2006
7.00pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Wheelchairs & widgets - building an international development charity from scratch
Mr David Constantine - Co-founder/Executive Officer, Motivation
Free tickets : Stephanie Marshall 01225 383659- Wednesday 11 October 2006
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
How do we know, that we know, what we know? An introduction to the philosophy of science
Dr Rick Marshall - Former physics lecturer, independent consultant - Wednesday 11 October 2006
5.30pm Main Hall, Oakfield Campus, Swindon
Linda and Ada: What is the Lovelace connection?
Dr Ben Bennett - Director, Intel's High Performance Computing Programs Group
In association with NMSI, Wroughton - Friday 13 October 2006
4.15pm 3 West North 3.7
Understanding serial murderers
Dr Joseph Diaz - Fayetteville State University, North Carolina - Wednesday 18 October 2006
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Astronomy and poetry
Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Professional astronomer - Wednesday 18 October 2006
5.30pm Main Hall, Oakfield Campus, Swindon
The Minoans in Crete
Anna Simandiraki - Archaeology and History of Art postgraduate -
Thursday 19 October 2006
7.00pm Chaplaincy Centre
The Sixth Meriol Trevor Memorial Lecture : Creation & Evolution
Reverend Tim Finigan
Free tickets : catholicchaplain@bath.ac.uk -
Friday 20 October 2006
12.15-1.30pm Oakfield Campus, Swindon
Another ten tons for Tempelhof: The Berlin airlift 1948/9
Bob Clarke - QinetiQ field archaeologist
Tickets : £5 (includes sandwich lunch) Booking form - Wednesday 25 October 2006
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
King Henry VII
Professor Ronald Hutton - Author, lecturer and media presenter; Professor of History, Bristol University - Wednesday 25 October 2006
5.30pm Main Hall, Oakfield Campus, Swindon
Islamic Art - calligraphy & tile work
June Ward - Lecturer, the National Association of Decorative & Fine Arts Societies and the British Museum - Thursday 26 October 2006
7 for 7.30pm 2 East 3.1
Future Diesel Technologies
James McCartney - Senior Project Engineer, Ricardo UK Ltd - Friday 27 October 2006
12.15-1.30pm Carpenter House, Broad Quay, Bath
Writers and Bath
Mary Palmer - Poet & writer
Tickets : £5 (includes sandwich lunch) Booking form - Wednesday 1 November 2006
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
The legendary Silk Road
Elisabeth Parry - Professional opera singer & co-founder London Opera Players; traveller & climber - Wednesday 1 November 2006
5.30pm Main Hall, Oakfield Campus, Swindon
The life and science of Michael Faraday
Dr Peter Ford - Physics Lecturer, University of Bath; Fellow of the Institute of Physics 
Wednesday 1 November 2006
6.15pm Lecture Theatre 2 East 3.1
From Rasputin to Putin and back again: in search of the Russian Father
Professor David Gillespie - Department of European Studies & Modern Languages
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Monday
6 November 2006
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Why creationism is wrong & evolution is right
Steve Jones - Professor of genetics, University College London
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Tuesday
7 November 2006
6.30pm 3 East 2.1
Biometrics technology & its application- Wednesday 8 November 2006
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Listening to global women's voices: Reflections on interfaith dialogue
Professor Ursula King - Professor Emerita of Theology & Religious Studies, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol; Professorial Research Associate, Centre for Gender and Religions Research, School of Oriental & African Studies - Wednesday 8 November 2006
5.30pm Main Hall, Oakfield Campus, Swindon
Jesus & the Earth
Right Reverend James Jones - Bishop of Liverpool
In association with Swindon Churches Together 
Wednesday 8 November 2006
6pm 3WN2.1
Web 2.0 & related copyright issues
Bill Thompson - BBC Technology Analyst on the BBC news website- Wednesday
15 November 2006
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Smelling of roses - How 18th century Bath dealt with its rising tide of 'night-soil'
Kay Ross - Buildings historian/archaeologist - Wednesday
15 November 2006
5.30pm Main Hall, Oakfield Campus, Swindon
How I learned to stop worrying and love Science Fiction
Stephen E Andrews - author - Friday
17 November 2006
12.15-1.30pm Carpenter House, Broad Quay, Bath
Mozart's friends in Bath - their influence on music in the city
Dr Raimund Herincx - Professor, Royal Academy of Music and North East of Scotland Music School, Aberdeen
Tickets : £5 (includes sandwich lunch) Booking form
In association with the Bath Mozart Festival 
Friday
17 November 2006
3:15-5:05pm 2East 3.1
Aid to Africa - Levels & trends (1960-2004)
John Weeks - School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London- Tuesday 21 November 2006
12.15-1.30pm Oakfield Campus, Swindon
A sense of place: Perceptions of landscape
Barbara Dixon - Curator, Swindon Art Collection
Tickets : £5 (includes sandwich lunch) Booking form - Wednesday 22 November 2006
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Life and death in the Neolithic Cotswolds
Dr Nick Snashall - National Trust Archaeologist for Avebury - Wednesday 22 November 2006
5.30pm Main Hall, Oakfield Campus, Swindon
The prehistory of the Vale of Pewsey
Paul Tubb - field archaeologist & former college lecturer 
Thursday
23 November 2006
6.30pm, University Hall lecture theatre
Stabilising peace in a troubled world: building nations after war
Lord (Paddy) Ashdown
Free tickets : Mrs Sheila Willmott 01225 386631
Wednesday 17 January 2007
4.15pm 8 West 3.22
Why worry? Pharmacological approaches to anxiety
Professor David Nutt - University of Bristol- Wednesday 31 January 2007
6.15pm Lecture Theatre 2 East 3.1
Vortex flows: from insects to aircraft
Professor Ismet Gursul - Department of Mechanical Engineering
Free tickets : Mrs Sheila Willmott 01225 386631 - Wednesday 31 January 2007
4.15pm 3 WestNorth 2.1
Smooth muscle membrane potential: new roles for neuronal potassium channels in the pulmonary circulation
Professor Alison Gurney - University of Manchester - Wednesday 7 February 2007
4.15pm 3 WestNorth 2.1
Nanotechnology approaches for protein delivery
Professor Daan Crommelin - Utrecht University - Wednesday 7 February 2007
6pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Hydropolitics: water shortage & conflict
Professor Ewan W Anderson - Emeritus Professor of Geopolitics at the University of Durham - Monday
12 February 2007
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Life in Antarctic extremes: How humans & animals cope
Professor Lloyd Peck - Wednesday 14 February 2007
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Erasmus Darwin & the Lunar Society of Birmingham
Stuart Harris - author - Wednesday 14 February 2007
5.30pm Main Hall, Oakfield Campus, Swindon
In association with Swindon Churches together
Faith in conflict? Reflections on religion and conflict in Northern Ireland
Duncan Morrow - Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council - Tuesday
20 February 2007
5.15pm 5 West 2.3
From chemist and druggist to Master of Pharmacy: a century and more of pharmacy education
Professor Anthony Smith - The London School of Pharmacy - Wednesday
21 February 2007
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
The man in the woollen mask: memory & eyewitness testimony
Dr Adrian Scott - chartered psychologist & lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Bath - Wednesday
21 February 2007
5.30pm Main Hall, Oakfield Campus, Swindon
The successful reign of Mary Tudor
Professor Ronald Hutton - author, lecturer and media presenter - Thursday
22 February 2007
6.15pm, 3 West North 2.1
Issues in foreign policy
Lord Rees-Mogg of Hinton Blewitt, former editor-in-chief for The Times and member of the House of Lords
Free tickets : Mrs Sheila Willmott 01225 386631 - Monday 26 February 2007
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Molecules and murder
Professor John Nicholson - Wednesday
28 February 2007
4.15pm 3 WestNorth 2.1
New materials for drug delivery - Lipids and linkers and bow ties
Professor Frank Szoka - University of California, San Francisco - Wednesday
28 February 2007
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
The Museum of East Asian Art - its history and collections
Ailsa Laxton - curator - Wednesday
28 February 2007
5.30pm Main Hall, Oakfield Campus, Swindon
21st century cave dwellers
Kevin McCullough - Managing Director of nPower renewables - Wednesday
28 February 2007
6.15pm Lecture Theatre 2 East 3.1
Improving the future of forecasting
Professor Paul Goodwin - School of Management
Free tickets : Mrs Sheila Willmott 01225 386631 - Wednesday
7 March 2007
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Art & archaeology in an Armenian landscape: The Ukhtasar Rock Art Research Project
Fay Stevens - Birkbeck College (University of London); Oxford, Reading and Bristol Universities - Wednesday
7 March 2007
5.30pm Main Hall, Oakfield Campus, Swindon
The Silk Road
Elisabeth Parry - Professional opera singer & co-founder London Opera Players; traveller & climber 
Wednesday
7 March 2007
7pm University Hall
Mind-reading, mysteries & maths
Rob Eastaway - Popular mathematics communicator- Monday 12 March 2007
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Going supercritical with carbon dioxide
Professor Steve Howdle - Wednesday 14 March 2007
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Mills and millwrighting
Martin Watts - Curator, millwright & consultant - Wednesday 14 March 2007
5.30pm Main Hall, Oakfield Campus, Swindon
The Irish in 19th century Britain
Professor Graham Davis - Course Director of the MA in Irish Studies at Bath Spa University - Friday
16 March 2007
12.15-1.30pm Carpenter House, Broad Quay, Bath
Another ten tons for Tempelhof: The Berlin airlift 1948/9
Bob Clarke - QinetiQ field archaeologist
Tickets : £5 (includes sandwich lunch) Register - Friday
16 March 2007
12.15-1.30pm Oakfield Campus, Swindon
Between the monuments: Neolithic Wessex and beyond
Dr Nick Snashall - archaeologist
Tickets : £5 (includes sandwich lunch) - Wednesday 21 March 2007
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
The great Moghuls and the gardens of Islam
June Ward - lecturer and organiser for The National Association of Decorative & Fine Arts Societies and the British Museum - Wednesday
21 March 2007
4.10pm 3 WestNorth 2.1
Neuropsychopharmacology of cognition
Professor Trevor Robbins FRS - University of Cambridge - Wednesday 21 March 2007
5.30pm Main Hall, Oakfield Campus, Swindon
Life through literature - the role of writing, reading, storytelling, and the Swindon Festival of Literature
Matt Holland - founder and organiser of the Swindon Festival of Literature - Wednesday 28 March 2007
5.15pm 5 West 2.3
How I learned to stop worrying and love science fiction
Stephen E Andrews - Author - Wednesday 28 March 2007
5.30pm Main Hall, Oakfield Campus, Swindon
From utter darkness to a thin mist: Early excavators at Avebury
Dr Ros Cleal - Curator of the Alexander Keiller Museum, Avebury - Wednesday
18 April 2007
4.10pm 3 WestNorth 2.1
Precision, hype and reality in pharmaceutical nanoscience and nanomedicine
Professor Sandy Florence - University of London - Wednesday 18 April 2007
6.15pm Lecture Theatre 2 East 3.1
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with children and young people: current status and future directions
Professor Paul Stallard - School for Health
Free tickets : Mrs Sheila Willmott 01225 386631 - Wednesday
25 April 2007
4.10pm 3 WestNorth 2.1
Safer, faster, better? Evaluating electronic prescribing
Professor Nick Barber - The London School of Pharmacy - Wednesday
25 April 2007
6.15pm Lecture Theatre 2 East 3.1
Clean energy materials: Crystal gazing on the atomic scale
Professor Saiful Islam - Department of Chemistry
Free tickets : Mrs Sheila Willmott 01225 386631 - Friday 4 May 2007
12.15-1.30pm Oakfield Campus, Swindon
Writers and place
Mary Palmer - published poet and creative writing tutor
Tickets : £5 (includes sandwich lunch) Register 
Tuesday
15 May 2007
7pm University Hall
The role of autonomy in medical and research ethics
Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve
President of the British Academy, Honorary graduate of the University of Bath
Free tickets : Stephanie Marshall 01225 383659- Friday 18 May 2007
5.15pm Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1
Fundamental research to commercial products: Applications of olefin metathesis catalysts
Professor Robert Grubbs - Nobel Laureate
California Institute of Technology, USA
Free tickets : Email mhsah20@bath.ac.uk