Institute of Advanced Study : Watch or Listen to Previous Events

To extend the reach of IAS activities beyond those who are able to attend on the day, the IAS records many of its public lecture events, as well as other select workshops and seminars which have broad appeal. We are in the early stages of developing our collection of video recordings, however we do have a substantial record of audio recordings. We hope that over time this collection will grow and become a valuable resource for many different audiences. Copyright of these recordings remains with the individual speakers.

Audio Recordings from 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16 can be found by following the links on the left. The current year can be found below.

Video footage of some lectures are also captured below. Recordings of Fellows' public lectures are available below by Fellowship years as well as on their specific profiles pages see:https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/fellows/iasfellows/.

If you have any queries please contact enquiries.ias@durham.ac.uk.

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Date	Speaker or Event	Title	Theme/Series
11 Oct 2016	Dr Richard Walsh	Complexity, Scale, Story: narrative models in Will Self and Enid Blyton	Scale
20 Oct 2016	Dr Thomas Servais	The Earth 500 million years ago; analysing large-scale spatial and temporal palaentological questions	Scale
25 Oct 2016	Dr Patrick McGivern	The Multi-Scale World	Scale
31 Oct 2016	Dr Julia Prest	Performing the Racial Scale in the Theatre: From Colonial Saint-Domingue to Today	Scale
01 Nov 2016	Prof John Steele	Understanding Marduk's Cosmos: the development of astronomy in ancient Babylonia	Scale
03 Nov 2016	Prof Massimo Leone	Weight Problems: an enquiry into scales and justice	Scale
23 Jan 2017	Prof Andres Lepik	Small Scale, Big Change: the social turn in contemporary architecture	The Scale of Things
24 Jan 2017	Prof Hannah Smithson	Medieval and Modern Explorations of Human Colour Perception	Scale
30 Jan 2017	Prof Mark Pagel FRS	Species, Languages and Companies: are they getting worse at what they do?	The Scale of Things
31 Jan 2017	Prof Ranga Narayanan	Scaling Matters: patterns by design from patterns of the divine	Scale
02 Feb 2017	Prof Sara Cousins	How Does Time Since, and Magnitude of, Change Affect Plant Communities in Fragmented Landscapes?	Scale
06 Feb 2017	Prof Stuart Elden FBA	Towards a Political Theory of Terrain	The Scale of Things
07 Feb 2017	Prof John Hall	Small States, Healthy Nations: on the Political Economy of Denmark, Ireland and Switzerland	Scale
09 Feb 2017	Prof Ida Susser	Public Intellectuals, Grassroots Movements and the Politics of Scale	Scale
13 Feb 2017	Dr Christine Sutton	To the limit - adventures in distance, time and energy	The Scale of Things
20 Feb 2017	Prof Mark Fricker	The Third Mode of Life: information transfer in networked organisms	Scale
23 Feb 2017	Prof Anna McCarthy	On the Animated GIF	Scale
27 Feb 2017	Prof William Sax	Scales of Research: social anthropology meets epidemiology	The Scale of Things
06 Mar 2017	Dr Karen Johnson	Atomic to Global Scale: on your knees to manganese	The Scale of Things
07 Mar 2017	Prof Jack Williams	Species Responses to Changing Climates Across Time and Space: from 55 million years ago to 2100 CE	Scale
13 Mar 2017	Prof Jussi Parikka	Laboratory Scale: situated practices in the (digital) humanities	The Scale of Things

2016/17 'Scale' Fellows' Lectures

The Scale of Things Lecture Series - 2016/17

Professor Andres Lepik

Professor Mark Pagel FRS

Professor Stuart Elden FBA

Dr Christine Sutton

Professor William Sax

Dr Karen Johnson

Professor Jussi Parikka

2015/16 'Evidence' Fellows' Lectures

Evidence on Trial Lecture Series - 2015/16

Professor Nancy Cartwright FBA

Professor Michael Rowan Robinson

Professor Dame Julia Higgins DBE FRS FRSC FREng

Dr Sarah Harris

Professor Robin Osborne FBA

Professor Michael Tite

Professor Matthew Engelke

Dr Helen Chatterjee

2014/15 'Emergence' Fellows' Lectures

Thinking About Emergence Lecture Series - 2014/15

Professor Colin Blakemore

Professor Ruth Mace

Professor David Papineau

Professor Mark Usher

Dr Nick Lane

2013/14 IAS 'Light' Fellows' Lectures

Professor Norman Kleiman

Dr Ulisses Barres de Almeida

Professor Brad Tebo

Professor Peter Adey

Other Lectures and Events

Institute of Advanced Study

King Hussein Memorial Lecture 2016

‘Finding Common Ground: Negotiating Across Cultures on Peace and Security Issues’ - the annual King Hussein Memorial Lecture in Cultural Dialogue 2016 given by Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC FASSA FAIIA.

“Lies, Damned Lies and …”: Is There Such a Thing as Reliable Evidence? Annual IAS London Event 2016

King Hussein Memorial Lecture

King Hussein Memorial Lecture, given by Professor Marc Stears (Oxford), May 2012

The Public Intellectual in Classical Athens and Today at The Royal Society in London

This panel event organised by Durham University took place on 28th June 2012 and examined the influence of ancient Athens on democracy today. The all-female panel featured TV presenter and historian Bettany Hughes, Guardian chief arts and culture writer Charlotte Higgins and ancient drama and democracy expert Professor Edith Hall

Homeric Epic and the Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorders

Watch this lecture with Dr Jonathan Shay discussing the Homeric Epic and the Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorders on 18th June 2013

Interview with Oliver Stone

Short interview clip of Oliver Stone with Professor Veronica Strang.

Oliver Stone visit to Durham University March 2016

The Institute of Advanced Study hosted an event with University staff, students and members of the public, in which Oliver Stone discussed Alexander with Dr Petrovic and fellow Classics scholars, Dr Andrej Petrovic and Dr Ed Richardson, and explored his more recent films – including the soon-to-be-released Snowden – with Dr Gleider Hernández from the Law School.

Understanding and Communicating Pain: An interdisciplinary approach

Speakers from a variety of disciplinary perspectives speaking at the Calman Learning Centre, Durham University on 7 May 2014 on behalf of the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) and the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing and the Durham Forum for Health.

Religion in the public sphere: a modern dilemma? The King Hussein Memorial Lecture

The King Hussein Memorial Lecture 2014 by Baroness Maeve Sherlock. Part of a series on inter-cultural dialogue. The lecture was given on 1 May 2014 at the Calman Learning Centre, Durham University.

IAS London Event at ICAEW June 2014

The annual IAs London event hosted at the ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) on 24 June 2014 entitled: Lights In The Sky: the search for meaning. Speakers included: Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Dr Serafina Cuomo, Professor Bob Layton and Professor David Wilkinson.

On the Tipping Point - Annual IAS London Event 2015

On the Tipping Point: The Annual IAS London Event at ICAEW, London on 4 June 2015.

Facing Out: The New Humanities

Facing Out: The New Humanities is part of the first national Festival of the Humanities: Being Human. Durham activities engage the public in two major research projects, which are based on new encounters and collaborations – between medieval and modern science, between ancient authors and later readers. These encounters produce new research questions and results in areas of fundamental public interest: the nature of the universe, human health, and the experience of literature and art. Projects are linked through a shared methodology of interdisciplinary collaboration, and through interactive engagement with the public.

IAS and the theme of Time 2012/13

Time a conversation with Dr Stefano Cracolicci

Time a conversation with Dr Simon Prosser

Time a conversation with Prof Robert Levine

Time a conversation with Prof Peter Erdi

Durham University IAS - In conversation with Dr Greti Dinkova-Bruun

Dr Greti Dinkova-Bruun discusses Time, the 2012-13 theme for the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University.

Durham University IAS - In conversation with Dr Luxia Wang

Dr Luxia Wang discusses Time, the 2012-13 theme for the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University

Homeric Epic and the Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorders

Watch this lecture with Dr Jonathan Shay discussing the Homeric Epic and the Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorders on 18th June 2013

Timed Out: Evolving To Extinction

This event, chaired by Prof Veronica Strang, brought together a panel of leading thinkers to discuss the intellectual, practical and ethical issues raised by humankind's effects on evolutionary time.