List of Society Lectures 1999 to 2019
Speaker | Year | Topic Area | Lecture Title | |
Barrow | John | 1999 | Physics, Cosmology | Life in the Universe |
Ewing | Winifred | 1999 | Politics | A Suitable Job for a Woman |
Haldane | John | 1999 | Philosophy | Philosophy in this Century and the Last |
Rifkind | Malcolm | 1999 | Politics | Blessed are the Peacemakers |
Cairncross | Frances | 2000 | Economics | The Death of Distance |
Grant | Robert | 2000 | Literature | Fiction and Meaning |
Greenfield | Susan | 2000 | Neuroscience | The Private Life of the Brain |
Langair | Malcolm | 2000 | Particle Physics | Maxwell, Planck and the discovery of Quanta |
Macgregor | Jimmie | 2000 | Entertainment | An Arctic Journey |
Mavor | Ronald | 2000 | Arts General | Time and the Arts |
McKinnon | Donald | 2000 | World Affairs | Forth and Clyde Canal--A Nation Divided |
Morgan | Edwin | 2000 | Literature | Some Philosophical thoughts on Burns |
Oppenheimer | Peter | 2000 | Economics | What Price Progress? |
Peterson | John | 2000 | Politics/World Affairs | The US Presidential Election |
Brown | Callum | 2001 | Scottish Church History | The Death of European Christian Culture |
Galbraith | Roderick | 2001 | Aeronautics | Two Centuries of Flight |
Holloway | Richard | 2001 | Religion ,Philosophy | The Wound of Religion |
Lebrecht | Norman | 2001 | Music | The Meaning of Mahler |
MacMillan | Duncan | 2001 | Art/Philosophy | Two Centuries of Art and Philosophy in Scotland |
Pennington | Hugh | 2001 | Public Health | A Century of Food Poisoning |
Rampton | Richard | 2001 | Law | Holocaust Denial: The Trial of the Century |
Thorp | Nigel | 2001 | Visual Arts | The Ass and the Coxcomb--Whistler and Ruskin |
Barr | Leslie | 2002 | The RPSG | The Society and Nobel Laureates |
Black | James | 2002 | Pharmacology | A Brief History of Drug Invention |
Deech | Ruth | 2002 | Public Health | The Future of Fertility |
Fells | Ian | 2002 | Energy | The Future of Renewable Energy |
McConnell | Bridget | 2002 | Arts Administration | Scotland's Cultural Future |
Radcliffe-Richards | Janet | 2002 | Women's Rights | The Future of Feminism |
Sheridan | Tommy | 2002 | Politics | A Century of Socialism |
Stamp | Gavin | 2002 | Visual Arts | Sir Giles Gilbert Scott: Architect of the Century |
Cowan | Ted | 2003 | History | 5/11 and the Fallout from 1603 |
Hampton | Kay | 2003 | Public Health | A Fairer Future |
Hough | Jim | 2003 | Physics | Ripples from the Dark Side of the Universe |
Macdonald | Finlay | 2003 | Religion | The Moderator's Tale |
McKellar | Quintin | 2003 | Ethics | The Future of Animal Welfare |
McMillan | Nigel | 2003 | Diagnostics | The latest Developments in Medical Scanning |
Reid | Heather | 2003 | Meteorology | Weather Forecasting in the 21st Century |
Saxl | Otilla | 2003 | Technology | The Science of the Small: Nanotechnology |
Sutherland | 2003 | Philosophy | Ideologies and Values | |
Winetrobe | Barry | 2003 | Politics/World Affairs | The Evolution of Devolution |
Blackburn | Simon. | 2004 | Philosophy | Fictions, Inventions and Ethics |
Burland | John | 2004 | Engineering | Propping up the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
Cairns Smith | Graham | 2004 | Medicine | Portrait of a truly Primitive Gene |
Cubie | Andrew | 2004 | Education | Academic Rigour or Social Policy |
Hellawell | Keith | 2004 | Addiction | Drugs in Society |
Midgley | Mary | 2004 | Philosophy | Visions and Values: Western Global Ecology |
Ogg | Derek | 2004 | Law | Just Law |
Sharp | Craig | 2004 | Veterinary Science | Animal Athletes: Feats of Animal Physiology |
Spurway | Neil | 2004 | Theology/Science | Science and Religion in the Third Millennium |
Wilmut | Ian | 2004 | Cloning | The Future of Cloning |
Afshar | Haleh | 2005 | Religion,Islam | Women's Rights and Islam-Can things change? |
Ashcroft | Brain | 2005 | Economics | New Wealth for an old Nation? |
Atiyah | Michael | 2005 | Mathematics | Einstein and the Nature of Space |
Bond | Michael | 2005 | Psychiatry | Forty Years in Pain |
Butt | John | 2005 | Music | Does Classical Music still exist? |
Leather | Suzi | 2005 | Ethics | Test Tube Babies and Embryo Research |
MacMillan | James | 2005 | Music | Music: the most spiritual of the Arts |
Maxwell | Jeff | 2005 | GM crops | Old Crops: Parameters of Acceptance and Rejection |
McCluskey | Lord | 2005 | Law | Whose Law? Religious and Legal Rights |
Smith | John | 2005 | Pharmacology | Scientific Changes for Natural Medicine |
Smith | Martin | 2005 | Geography | Drifting Continents and the Asian Tsunami |
Stoddart | Sandy | 2005 | Sculpture | Costume, Drapery and the Decline of the Statue |
Caddy | Brian | 2006 | Forensics | Forensic Science-Servant of the Legal Process |
Craig | Carol | 2006 | Psychology | Negativity in Scotland's Culture and Consciousness |
Crane | Tim | 2006 | Neuroscience | Can Science explain Consciousness? |
Elliot | Alison | 2006 | Religion | Moderation in a World of Extremes |
McAnemey | Billy | 2006 | Geography | Africa: What does the Future hold? |
McDonald | Sheena | 2006 | Media | Sack the Clown; Governance, Media and the Law |
McGrath | Alistair | 2006 | Religion | The Twilight of Atheism? |
McLean | Colin | 2006 | Economics | The Strange Behaviour of Investors |
Mithen | Steven | 2006 | Music | The Origins of Music and Language |
O'Neill | Mark | 2006 | Visual Arts | Kelvingrove in the 21st Century |
Reilly | David | 2006 | General Medicine | Healing in a Post-Industrial Age |
Warwick | Kevin | 2006 | Technology | Hybrid Intelligence. Human and Machine Brains |
Boulton | Geoffrey | 2007 | Geology | What is happening to Planet Earth? |
Burnell | Jocelyn Bell | 2007 | Astronomy | What's going on in the Universe? |
Conway-Morris | Simon | 2007 | Evolution | How Evolution dances to the Song of Creation |
Fry | Michael | 2007 | History | State of the Union: how 1707 led to 2007 |
Grayling | A.C. | 2007 | Philosophy | Defending the Enlightenment |
Hanlon | Philip | 2007 | Public Health | Threats to Public Health in the 21st Century |
Law | Stephen | 2007 | Psychology | The War for Children's Minds |
Lorimer | David | 2007 | Philosophy | The Frontiers of Science. Consciousness and Spirituality |
Manning | Aubrey | 2007 | Zoology | The Animals and Ourselves |
Reilly | Patrick | 2007 | Literature | Decoding the Da Vinci Code |
Skeldon | Ken | 2007 | Cosmology | Debunking the Moon Hoax Theory |
Angiolini | Elish | 2008 | Law | Scots Law' What's Special about us? |
Bown | Lalage | 2008 | Education/Feminism | Women, Words and the World |
Burton | Michael | 2008 | Cognitive Psychology | Face Recognition: surveillance, security, perception |
Hall | Wendy | 2008 | Computing | Towards a Science of the World Wide Web |
Jeffreys | Alec | 2008 | Forensics | DNA Fingerprinting and Beyond |
Macdonald | Murdo | 2008 | Visual Arts | Scotland's Art From Prehistory to the Present |
McKeganey | Neil | 2008 | Addiction | Welcome to Scotland, Drug Capital of Europe |
Newlands | George | 2008 | Theology/Ethics | Faith, Hospitality and Human Rights |
Pollock | Allyson | 2008 | Public Health | The NHS and the Divergence of England and Scotland |
Reedie | Craig | 2008 | Sports Administration | Civic Advantages of International Sporting Events |
Taylor | Max | 2008 | Politics/World Affairs | How Terrorism can be understood and countered |
Wallace | John | 2008 | Music | Music and Freedom |
Williams | Shirley | 2008 | Politics/World Affairs | Politics and Principle |
Black | Sue | 2009 | Forensic Anthropology | Forensic Anthropology in the Modern World |
Cogdell | Richard | 2009 | Botany | What we can learn from Photosynthesis? |
Dominiczak | Anna | 2009 | Genetics/Cardiology | Genes, Proteins and Patients |
Evans | Martin | 2009 | Medicine General | Mice, Men and Medicine |
Garrod | Simon | 2009 | Psychology | The New Science of Social Interaction |
Hendry | Martin | 2009 | Physics | Cosmology:Why are we here? |
Humes | Walter | 2009 | Education | Education, Citizenship and Democracy |
Jones | Steve | 2009 | Evolution | Why Darwin was right and the Creationists are wrong |
McLennan | Andrew | 2009 | Sociology | Inside Barlinnie: the first 24 Hours |
Roaf | Sue | 2009 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Three degrees of climate change |
Robertson | Ian | 2009 | Music | Operatic Medicine? Doctors in Opera |
Smith | Catherine | 2009 | Literature | The Dignity of Man--Robert Burns |
Wolpert | Louis | 2009 | Religion | Belief and the Evolution of Religion |
Barker | John | 2010 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | The smile on the face of the Quantum |
Brindley | Lynne | 2010 | Librarianship | The Role of National Libraries in the 21st Century |
Burdon | Roy | 2010 | Visual Arts | Culture Fusion: Arts/Science/Arts |
Crawford | Dorothy | 2010 | Medicine General | Microbes and us |
Cushieri | Alfred | 2010 | Medicine General | Operating from Images |
Ferguson | Niall | 2010 | History | The 1970s in Historical Perspective |
Glover | Anne | 2010 | Global Warming | Is Manmade Climate Change our Greatest Challenge? |
McConnell | Jack | 2010 | Politics | Impact of Devolution on Scotland's Place in the World |
McDonald | Jan | 2010 | Theatre History | Women Performers in 19thC British Theatre |
McKinnon | Jim | 2010 | Geography | From Skara Brae to sustainable Communities |
Reid | Harry | 2010 | Religion | Why we should be grateful to Luther Calvin and Knox |
Tallis | Raymond | 2010 | Visual Arts | Aping Mankind; Darwinism, yes : Darwinist, no |
Campbell | Gordon | 2011 | Religion | The King James Bible-Language and Literature |
Crowe | Victoria | 2011 | Visual Arts | Inspiration and Process: the Creative Journey |
Frith | Chris | 2011 | Psychology | What is Consciousness for? |
Ion | Sue | 2011 | Energy | 21stC Energy: Challenges and Food for Thought |
Maslen | Rob | 2011 | Literature | Fantasy from The Front: Mervyn Peake |
McDonald | Stuart | 2011 | History | Procurement of Cadavers by Anatomists In 19thC |
Purser | John | 2011 | Musicology | Scotland's Landscape as Music |
Reid | George | 2011 | Politics | Getting to 'YES' |
Richardson | Louise | 2011 | Terrorism/World Affairs | Understanding Terrorism |
Roderick A McD Galbraith | 2011 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | What nature did and did not give aerospace | |
Stringer | Chris | 2011 | Evolution | The Origin of our Species |
Venables | Jean | 2011 | Global Warming | Water and Climate Change in Food Production |
Wilson | Chick | 2011 | Chemistry | Mysterious Case of Misbehaving Molecules |
Winder | Simon | 2011 | History | Germanic Tribes in 16thC Europe |
Burn | John | 2012 | Genetics | Twins, Genes and Stem Cells:in search of self |
Cannadine | David | 2012 | History | the British Monarchy becoming constitutional |
Chakrabati | Shami | 2012 | Human Rights | Common Values in the Human Rights Act |
Esakovitz | Leonard | 2012 | Visual Arts | Why take Photographs? |
Esakowitz | Leonard | 2012 | Members' Talks | Why take photographs? |
Graham | Elizabeth | 2012 | Archaeology | The Maya: their Calendar and Apocalypse to come |
Neilson | June | 2012 | Members' Talks | The Antonine Wall: a wall too far? |
Nielsen | June | 2012 | History | The Antonine Wall: a Wall too far? |
O'Neill | Onora | 2012 | Philosophy | Do we need to rethink Press Freedom? |
Philbrick | Dick | 2012 | Business/ Economics | Employee Ownership |
Philbrick | Dick | 2012 | Members' Talks | Employee ownership: path to prosperity and antidote to alienation? |
Sharkey | Noel | 2012 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Robots that can help us and hurt us |
Shenkin | Alan | 2012 | Nutrition | Micronutrient Supplements and Disease |
Wilson | Jim | 2012 | Genetics | Scotland's DNA |
Armstrong | Karen | 2013 | Religion, Philosophy | Compassion |
Blakemore | Colin | 2013 | Neuroscience | Vision Impossible |
Bone | Ian | 2013 | Neurology | Charles Dickens and the Art of Medical Observation |
Calder | Muffy | 2013 | Computing | Computational Thinking |
Cohen | Philp | 2013 | Pharmacology | New Drugs in the 21stC |
Holloway | James | 2013 | Visual Arts | Portrait of a Nation: Scotland's Portrait Gallery |
Kennedy | Dermot | 2013 | Members' Talks | Lister, Glasgow and antisepsis: confluences that changed the world |
Little | Alan | 2013 | World Affairs | Europe in an Age of Fear |
Macdonald | Jim | 2013 | Ecology | Low Carbon Living |
Macniven | Duncan | 2013 | History | Scotland's People--1855-2011 |
Monaghan | Pat | 2013 | Members' Talks | An insight into the life and legacy of Alexander Wilson, Ornithologist |
Patten | Chris | 2013 | World Affairs | Collapsing Certainties:changing World order |
Rees | Martin | 2013 | Cosmology | Life in the Cosmos: Planets, Galaxies and the Universe |
Sanderson | David | 2013 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | 2013 was the centenary of 'isotope' first appearing in print, in a letter from Glasgow's Frederick Soddy |
Sanderson | David | 2013 | Chemistry | Science Festival Lecture |
Warren | John | 2013 | Members' Talks | A light shining in dark places: the legacy of Thomas Aikenhead |
Withers | Charles | 2013 | Geography | Scotland's Cartographic History |
Adams | Carol | 2014 | Business | Responsibility in Business |
Card | Nick | 2014 | Archaeology | Excavations at Neolithic site Brodgar Orkney |
Curtice | John | 2014 | Politics | Is Scotland set to Separate? |
Deary | Ian | 2014 | Aging | Heathy Cognitive Aging |
Gallagher | Jamie | 2014 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Indestructible Energy |
Gorman. Daniel | 2014 | Members' Talks | James Clerk Maxwell | |
Gray | Muir | 2014 | Public Health | The Third Healthcare Revolution |
Greig | David | 2014 | Theatre | Theatre and Anthropology |
Long | Philip | 2014 | Visual Arts | V &A Dundee |
McCluskey | Karen | 2014 | Psychology/Public Health | Medics against Violence |
Morris | Andrew | 2014 | Public Health | Health Science Research in Scotland |
Stott | David | 2014 | Members' Talks | Antikythera Mechanism |
Vousden | Karen | 2014 | Oncology | Why is Cancer so rare? |
Wilson | David | 2014 | World Affairs | China Awakening |
Ansari | Ali | 2015 | Modern History | Iran and the British Question |
Archer | Janet | 2015 | Arts Admin | Unlocking Potential, Embracing Ambition |
Campbell | Steve | 2015 | Members' Talks | Photography |
Eaves | Laurence | 2015 | Physics | Graphene |
Gilmore | Ian | 2015 | Addiction | Alcohol:Coping with our Favourite drug |
Hobbs | Angela | 2015 | Philosophy | Philosophy and the Good Life |
Mitchell | William | 2015 | Members' Talks | Making of the Baton for the Commonwealth Games |
Shipton | Zoe | 2015 | Geology/ Engineering | Ethics of Energy Supply in 21stC |
Spector | Timothy | 2015 | Genetics | How you can change your Genes |
Stewart | Mhairi | 2015 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | What have bacteria done for us? |
Strachan | Huw | 2015 | History | Centenary of WW1: Commemoration or Celebration? |
Yellowlees | Lesley | 2015 | Women in Science | Women in Science |
Aitken | Jonathan | 2016 | Politics, Religion | Reforming our Prisons-Purposes and Practicalities |
Barker | John | 2016 | Members' Talks | Through the Webbit Hole: a Guide to royalphil.org |
Calderwood | Catherine | 2016 | Public Health | The Philosophy of Realistic Medicine |
Finkel | Irving | 2016 | Ancient History | The Ark before Noah |
Foster | Russell | 2016 | Neuroscience | A New Understanding of the Eye |
Fraser | Mary | 2016 | Members' Talks | Controversies over the Great War Separation Allowance: Views of the Police |
Fyfe | Maria | 2016 | Members' Talks | Mary Barbour |
Greenan | Lily | 2016 | Women's Rights | Violence against Women in Scotland |
Haugh | Joanne | 2016 | Global Warming | Climate Change |
Inns | Tom | 2016 | Design, Education | Design Thinking in 21st Century |
Jaspars | Marcel | 2016 | Pharmacology | Extreme Drug Discovery |
Kirkwood | Tom | 2016 | Aging | What Price Immortality? |
McFadden | Jean | 2016 | Glasgow Local Govt | Glasgow's Miles Better? A personal view |
NicDaeid | Niamh | 2016 | Forensic Science | Does Forensic Science have a Future? |
Rowan | Sheila | 2016 | Cosmology | Gravitational Waves-a new Astronomy? |
Scott | Sophie | 2016 | Neuroscience | The Science of Laughter |
Shirlaw | Derek | 2016 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Future fuels |
(No name) | 2017 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Connect with maths (talk and workshops for school age) | |
Bruzzi | Stella | 2017 | Film | The Law in Media Entertainment |
Grady | Monica | 2017 | Cosmology | Landing on a Comet |
Jebb | Susan | 2017 | Nutrition | Improving the Nation's Diet |
Leask | Nigel | 2017 | Literature | Thomas Pennants Scottish Tours 1760-72 |
Macdonald.Ken | 2017 | Law | Freedom in a dangerous World | |
McColl | Jim | 2017 | Business | Renewal and Regeneration of Businesses |
McCulloch | Diarmaid | 2017 | Religion/History | The Reformation Half a Millennium Later |
Pirmohamed | Munir | 2017 | Genetics | Personalised Medicine> Can NHS afford it? |
Rogers | Paul | 2017 | Politics/Public Affairs | Lost Cause? The War on Terror |
Seldon | Antony | 2017 | Education/Philosophy | Waste of 20thC Academic Philosophy |
Barker | John | 2018 | Physics and Astronomy | The Exploration of Space: the Austerity Years |
Burns | Harry | 2018 | Public Health | Wellbeing-What is it and what causes it? |
Hennessey | Peter | 2018 | Politics, History | Writing the History of One's own Time |
Hutton | Will | 2018 | Public Affairs | The Enlightenment under Siege |
Ingold | Tim | 2018 | Sociology | On Building a University for the Common Good |
Jeffrey | Kate | 2018 | Neuroscience | Illuminating Memory: optogenetics and the new science of the mind |
Menzies | Kirsty | 2018 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Visualising two of Glasgow's Marys: how women have shaped and are shaping the political and scientific life of Glasgow |
Millar | Keith | 2018 | History | Franklin's Arctic Expedition 1845 |
Morris | Jane | 2018 | Psychiatry | Psychotherapy in Scotland today |
Nurse | Paul | 2018 | Genetics | Great Ideas in Biology |
O'Hagan | Angela | 2018 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Visualising two of Glasgow's Marys: how women have shaped and are shaping the political and scientific life of Glasgow |
Palmer | Tim | 2018 | Meteorology | Predicting the Weather |
Roberts | Carolyn | 2018 | Environment | Managing our Water Environment |
Thomas | Sharon | 2018 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Visualising two of Glasgow's Marys: how women have shaped and are shaping the political and scientific life of Glasgow |
Welsh | Louise | 2018 | Literature | Dystopia And Nostalgia in Apocalypse Fiction |
Winfield | Alan | 2018 | Robotics/Ethics | The Thinking Robot |
Bruford | Mike | 2019 | Genetics/ Biodiversity | Why Genetic Biodiversity matters |
O'Donovan | Michael | 2019 | Genetics | Genes and Mental Illness |
Paul | Douglas | 2019 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Nanotechnology |
Phipps | Alison | 2019 | World Affairs/Education | Refugee Integration Through Languages and the Arts |
Sands | Philippe | 2019 | Law/World Affairs | Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity |
Calman | Kenneth | 1999/2015 | Public Health | Risk and its Communication/Happiness |
Susskind | Richard | 2002/17 | Law/Computing Science | Clicks and Mortals/The Future of The Professions |
MacSween | Roderick | 2003/2010 | General Medicine | The Future of Medical Care |
McInnes | Colin | 2008/2015 | Engineering | Engineering, Energy and the Environment/Energy Transmissions-past and Present |
Broadie | Alexander | 2013/2017 | Philosophy | David Hume/Public Intellectuals |