Darwin College Lecture Series
In the second term of each academic year, since 1986, Darwin College has organised a series of eight public lectures, built around a single theme, with a multi-disciplinary approach. Each lecture is prepared for a general audience by a leading authority on his or her subject. The lecture series is then published as a book by Cambridge University Press.
Decoding Our Humanity - Professor Shannon Vallor
Polari - a Very Queer Code - Professor Paul Baker
Wayfinding through the Human Genome - Dr Keolu Fox
Eve's Byte of the Apple - Sandi Toksvig
Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code? - Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith
Using Maths to Decode the Universe - Dr Tom Crawford
Bits with Soul - Professor Simon Peyton Jones
The Cultural Revolution - Tania Branigan
Revolution by Natural Selection - Professor Nick Lane, University College London
Worlds turned upside down: Quiet Revolutions in Art - Professor Frances Spalding
The Exoplanet Revolution - Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge
A Revolution in Thought? - Dr Iain McGilchrist
Are Revolutions justified? - Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics
The Genetic Revolutions - Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester
On the Disappointment of Revolutions - Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University
Darwin College Lecture Series 2024 - Introduction
Isolation of Atomic Mechanisms: the Choreographer at Play - Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia
The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea - Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge
Are we alone in the Universe? - Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge
Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers - Professor Philip Jones, University College London
Antarctica: Isolated Continent - Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey
The Closeting of Secrets – Physics and Cryptography - Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge
The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia. Dr Amy Nethery
Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls - Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge
X-Rays and Food Safety - Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge
Food as Expression - Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef
Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past - Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge
Food and Cultural History - Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge