@greshamcollege.bsky.social
Free public lectures across the Arts & Sciences | Since 1597 http://gresham.ac.uk
🎟️ In-person tickets now open: Do Not Resuscitate Forms – Who’d Have One?
👉 gres.hm/dnr-forms
Join consultant and chair of Wales’ DNACPR policy, @profmarktaubert.bsky.social*, to explore DNACPR policy, end-of-life planning, scandals & tackling misinformation
*@cardiffuni.bsky.social
This week at Gresham:
How Does Mathematics Last? Heritage and Heritage-making in Mathematics
The Annual BSHM Lecture with Prof Caroline Ehrhardt
Follow live: gres.hm/heritage-maths
How is mathematical knowledge recorded and preserved across generations?
#mathshistory
In-person tickets open!
China’s Economic Prospects on the Cusp
gres.hm/china-economics
Economist @george17.bsky.social asks, in a sea of macroeconomic imbalances & headwinds, does China's government have the political capacity to address deep-seated economic problems?
📢 We’re delighted to announce that Professor Jane Shaw has been appointed the new Provost of Gresham College, starting this Dec!
Prof Shaw is a distinguished historian, author, & outgoing Principal of @hmcoxford.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk
Read more: gres.hm/jane-shaw-25🎓
🎟️ Free in-person tickets now open!
👉 gres.hm/music-animals
Do animals make music? From whale songs and birdsong to horse rhythms echoing the blues, @miltonline.bsky.social asks if music is uniquely human - or shared with our animal cousins.
📍 Held at LSO St Luke's
@uniofsurrey.bsky.social
📅 This week at Gresham College:
🎟 Hitler, Jesus & How to Win a Culture War
Prof. Alec Ryrie
😱 Why Do We Fear?
Prof. Robin May
📸 Evoking Empathy through Animal Portraiture
Photographer Tim Flach
All lectures are free & open to all - join us online! 👉 www.gresham.ac.uk/wh...
On this week:
Shakespeare’s Musical Fairies with Prof Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
AI Will Be Your Overlord: Faster, Brighter, Better Than You? with Prof Matt Jones
How It Ends: What We Know about the Fate of the Universe with Prof Chris Lintott
Watch live! 👉www.gresham.ac.uk/wh...
🎟 In-person tickets now open: Whither War; Whither the Law of War
👉 gres.hm/whither-war
Prof Sir Geoffrey Nice KC asks how we might rethink #war itself. He explores whether courts, laws & informal processes can deliver justice, & whether they can prevent future conflict...
Free tickets: From Tyranny to Athenian Democracy
👉gres.hm/tyranny-demo...
Prof Melissa Lane* traces Athenian democracy to 508 BCE, when a popular uprising toppled a tyrant & Cleisthenes’ reforms reshaped politics, identity & society
*also of @princeton.bsky.social / @princetonpolitics.bsky.social
What does it mean to be Chinese?
In this lunchtime lecture, Prof Steve Tsang (@soasuni.bsky.social) examines and contrasts the very different political realities of Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
🎟 Free, in-person tickets now available: gres.hm/china-lessons
#China
On this week:
The Shape of Hands: Symmetry, Chirality and Handedness with Prof Alain Goriely
👉 gres.hm/shape-hands
The Great God Pan: Lord of the Wild with Prof Ronald Hutton
👉 https://gres.hm/god-pan
Lessons from Guantánamo Bay with Prof Clive Stafford Smith JD
👉 https://gres.hm/gitmo
🎟 Free tickets: War’s Toxic Legacy
👉 gres.hm/toxic-war
War leaves toxic scars - metals, chemicals, asbestos - harming civilians long after combat. Prof Ian Mudway* calls for action on health, remediation & justice
*also of @ImperialSPH @ImperialMed and @CentreEnvHealth
✨ Gresham College was founded in 1597 thanks to Sir Thomas Gresham’s Will. Over 400 years later, his gift still funds free lectures for all. You can help secure our future too.
💛Find out more: gres.hm/gift-will
#RememberACharityWeek @RememberACharity
Did you know that, If your life has been touched by our work, you can support our vital work through leaving a gift to #GreshamCollege in your Will?
Find out more here: gres.hm/gift-will
@remembercharity #RememberACharityWeek
📢 Free tickets! Prof Caroline Ehrhardt asks: How does mathematics last?
Discover how maths heritage is shaped by people, libraries & politics with particular reference to 19th-century France in our Annual BSHM Gresham Lecture
🎟 gres.hm/heritage-maths
#Maths @mathshistory
Coming up this week:
Tues 9 Sep: Automation Anxiety by Prof Daniel Susskind
👉gres.hm/automation-a...
Thurs 11 Sep: Earth – Our Planetary Life Support System by Prof @helenczerski.bsky.social
👉gres.hm/life-support
#freelearning
Right, EVENT PLUGGING TIME. FIRSTLY, FREE tickets for the first of my @greshamcollege.bsky.social lectures are now available. Come here about the end of the Universe - central London or online on Sep 24th. (Will sell out, I think, so do book) www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/how...
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🎓 Volunteer with Gresham College!
We’re looking for friendly faces to support our evening lectures by welcoming attendees, checking them in, and helping manage hall capacity. Find out more and sign up: www.gresham.ac.uk/vo...
#Volunteer #GreshamCollege #Events #Community
📸 Evoking Empathy through Animal Portraiture
Book free tickets 👉 gres.hm/animal-portr...
Acclaimed photographer Tim Flach shows how photography can foster empathy with animals, spark emotional responses, and inspire conservation – blending art, science and social awareness...
😱 Why Do We Fear?
Free tickets now open 👉 gres.hm/why-fear
Fear keeps us alive, but can also trap us in phobias or push us toward thrill-seeking. Prof @robinmay9.bsky.social asks, can understanding its biology help us overcome it?
*also of @imibirmingham.bsky.social
🎟 Free tickets: Hitler, Jesus & How to Win a Culture War
👉 gres.hm/hitler-jesus
Emeritus Professor of Divinity Alec Ryrie on how #WWII shaped our idea of evil - and why that moral compass may be breaking down...
@durham-university.bsky.social #History #Ethics #Philosophy
From oil to cod – ISRF event explores what yesterday’s empires reveal about today’s wars
Universal Impact's Adam Smith on a recent ISRF-sponsored series of lectures on #decolonisation at @greshamcollege.bsky.social, which shed new light on contemporary conflicts.
isrf.org/blog/from-oi...
Why did the anti-colonialism movement gain so much ground after WW2?
👉 gres.hm/world-decolo...
Prof Martin Thomas looks at global history to re-evaluate whether the 20th century collapse of European colonialism was as definitive as often portrayed...
@isrfoundation.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
I'm looking forward to giving my first Gresham Lecture a month from today. Anyone can register for free to listen online or to watch in person if you're in London.
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Did Walter Scott Invent Scotland?
Dr Juliet Shields’ 2017 @greshamcollege.bsky.social Fulbright lecture
Why is it Scott’s version, rather than any of the many other #C19th literary representations of Scotland, that has endured in the popular imagination?
#Romanticism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxBp...
Why do we forget that practically everything nowadays is made of oil?
👉 gres.hm/oil-decoloni...
Prof Adam Hanieh of @exeter.ac.uk explores oil’s influence on national independence struggles, exposing both the successes and limits of decolonisation...
Sponsored by @isrfoundation.bsky.social
Who was Shanawdithit, the last of an indigenous Canadian tribe?
👉 gres.hm/shanawdithit
Prof @julialaite.bsky.social explores the life of the last Beothuk woman, and the violent history of #Newfoundland, England’s first transatlantic colony...
@isrfoundation.bsky.social @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
Why can you never find a taxi when you want one?
👉 gres.hm/psychology-m...
Feels like the financial world works against you? In his last Prof of Business lecture, Raghavendra Rau explains "behavioural finance" – how our brains get tricked by money matters.
#businesspsychology
Book free tickets!
🌍 Earth – Our Planetary Life Support System by Prof @helenczerski.bsky.social*
We’re not separate from Earth, we’re part of its intricate system. Discover the two fundamental rules that keep our planet (and us) alive...
👉 gres.hm/life-support
* also of @ucl.ac.uk
Introducing our new Frank Jackson Foundation Professor of the Environment @helenczerski.bsky.social and her first lecture series: Notes from a Large Planet!
Find out more and register to watch live online: gres.hm/large-planet
In-person tickets open one month before each event.
@ucl.ac.uk
