Date | Speaker or Event | Title | Theme |
7 October 2013 | Professor Stephen Gaukroger | How Representation Became a Problem: The Rise of an Optics of Vision in the Seventeenth Century | The Light Year |
21 October 2013 | Professor Sir Arnold Wolfendale | Gamma Rays: The End of the Rainbow, and Beyond | The Light Year |
24 October 2013 | Professor Tom Mole | Scott in Stone, Byron in Bronze: Statues, Photographs and Poets in the British Pantheon | Light |
4 November 2013 | Linda France | Breathing Light: the Poetry of Plants | Light |
12 November 2013 | Professor Glenn Brock | Fossil Treasures from the Cambrian of Gondwana: Shedding Light on Early Animal Evolution | Light |
18 November 2013 | Professor Tom McLeish | The Science-Theology of Why Light Matters: from Medieval to Modern | The Light Year |
25 November 2013 | Professor Carlos Frenk | From Darkness to Light: Everything from Nothing | The Light Year |
28 November 2013 | Dr Angharad Closs Stephens | The Persistence of Nationalism: from Imagined Communities to Urban Encounters | Light |
2 December 2013 | Dr Robert Fosbury | Hubble in Orbit: the Third Decade | Light |
27 January 2014 | Professor Brad Tebo | In the Absence of Light: The Rock Bottom of the Food Chain | Light |
4 February 2014 | Professor Peter Adey | The Levitators: Trespassing the Air | Light |
11 February 2014 | Dr Ulisses Barres de Almeida | From Light to Light: a Journey in Observational Astronomy, to the Limits of Knowledge | Light |
17 February 2014 | Dr Philip Ball | Invisibility: a Cultural History | The Light Year |
18 February 2014 | Professor Jan Clarke | Stage Lighting as Spectacle in Seventeenth-Century France | Light |
24 February 2014 | Professor Sven Dupré | Understanding Celestial Light through Precious Stones: From the Jeweller's Culture of Optics to Natural Philosophy | The Light Year |
25 February 2014 | Professor Peter Gratton | The Light of Transcendence and the Vicissitudes of Time | Light |
4 March 2014 | Lesley Chamberlain | Turning Away from the Light: Why Reject the Enlightenment | Light |
6 March 2014 | Dr Norman Kleiman | Through the Eyes of Astronauts, Cardiologist and Mice-What the eye lens can tell us about radiation exposure and radio sensitivity | Light |
13 March 2014 | Dr Tim Edensor | The Potentialities of Light Festivals | Light |
17 March 2014 | Professor Ernest Freeberg | The Light Bulb’s Many Inventors: Creating a Culture of Artificial Light, 1870 to 1920 | The Light Year |
18 March 2014 | Julie Westerman | Unfamiliar Light | Light |