Inaugural Lectures
Every year we celebrate our newly appointed professors by holding inaugural lectures. This gives our professors the opportunity present to their colleagues, friends and families about their work to date, current research and future plans.
Below is a catalogue of our recent lectures for you to enjoy.
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Name |
Lecture Title |
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| 2 June 2025 | Professor Stacey Hynd | Children of War: Telling the Stories of Africa’s Child Soldiers and Learning from their Histories |
| 28 May 2025 | Professor Andy Brown | Penguins, People, Ponies: Creative Writing, Fecopoetics, and the Problem of the Dung Pile |
| 21 May 2025 | Professor Fiona Cox | Les Misérables by Starlight |
| 14 May 2025 | Professor David Thackeray | Writing Histories of Settler Democracy in an Age of Crisis |
| 12 March 2025 | Professor Anna Mountford-Zimdar | Some reflections on 20+ years in social research |
| 17 February 2025 |
Professor Daisy Hay |
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Lecture Title |
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December 2024 |
Professor Philip Durrant |
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26 November 2024 |
Professor Amina Yaqin |
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5 June 2024 |
Professor Catriona Pennell |
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29 May 2024 |
Professor Katherine Tyler |
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22 May 2024 |
Professor Catriona McKinnon |
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20 May 2024 |
Professor Danielle Hipkins |
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20 May 2024 |
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13 May 2024 |
Professor Sajjad Rizvi |
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24 April 2024 |
Professor Dora Vargha |
Socialist International Health from Below: Hungarian Medical Missions to North Korea 1950-1957 |
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26 February 2024 |
Professor Robert Lamb |
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12 February 2024 |
Professor Susannah Cornwall |
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31 January 2024 |
Professor David Lewis |
The Return of the Empire? Decolonisation and Neo-Imperialism in Global Politics. |
| Date | Professor | Lecture Title |
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| 11 December 2023 | Professor Ana Beduschi | Why do human rights matter for the governance of digital technologies? |
| 27 November 2023 | Professor Corinna Wagner | Ode to the Road: Travels with Ghosts |
| 15 November 202 | Professor Martin Pitts | Alternative Histories Through Material Culture. Contaminating Encounters and Objectscapes in the Roman North |
| 1 November 2023 | Professor Nandini Chatterjee | Demanding subjects: Women in Mughal courtrooms |
| 24 October 2023 | Professor John Heathershaw | Is ours a kleptocratic future? What is Kleptrocracy and Why Does It Matter? |
| 4 October 2023 | Professor Muireann Maguire | Friendship in Exile: A Story of Books, Translation, and Scandal |
