Podcasts about inaugural lecture

President Higgins delivered the inaugural lecture in a new annual series of lectures which will run at the University of Manchester. Titled the John Kennedy Lecture Series, the lectures will run for five years as part of the University's School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. The title of the inaugural lecture, presented by President Higgins, is ‘Of the consciousness our times need in responding to interacting crises and the role of Universities as spaces of discourse in facilitating it'.

Today, we hear Dr. Stephanie MacQuarrie with her thoughts. She is introduced by Catherine Arseneau, Dean of the Library and Cultural Resources...she is also Dr. Donald Arsenault's daughter.

Today, we hear from Dr. Mary Beth Doucette, an associate Professor in the Shannon school of business.  She is introduced by Catherine Arseneau, the Dean of the Library and Cultural Resources.

Dr. Felix Odartey-Wellington is an Associate Professor of Communication at CBU. He speaks about the work being done at the university today.

Judges and jurists employ distinctive, and distinctly different, styles of reasoning. Judges develop the common law cautiously, by incremental analogical development. Judicial reasoning is characteristically practical, even pragmatic, with the resolution of concrete disputes paramount. The stability of the common law depends on strong shared, albeit implicit, understandings about its content. Academia might seem hostile to much of this. Academics are expected to build ambitious theories, to investigate legal rules to their theoretical foundations, to question and reject consensus, and above all to innovate. In pursuing such goals, legal scholars risk misconceiving the nature of the common law enterprise, and overlooking its strengths. Jonathan Morgan delivered his inaugural lecture as Professor of English Law on Friday 26 January 2024 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

Judges and jurists employ distinctive, and distinctly different, styles of reasoning. Judges develop the common law cautiously, by incremental analogical development. Judicial reasoning is characteristically practical, even pragmatic, with the resolution of concrete disputes paramount. The stability of the common law depends on strong shared, albeit implicit, understandings about its content. Academia might seem hostile to much of this. Academics are expected to build ambitious theories, to investigate legal rules to their theoretical foundations, to question and reject consensus, and above all to innovate. In pursuing such goals, legal scholars risk misconceiving the nature of the common law enterprise, and overlooking its strengths. Jonathan Morgan delivered his inaugural lecture as Professor of English Law on Friday 26 January 2024 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

Judges and jurists employ distinctive, and distinctly different, styles of reasoning. Judges develop the common law cautiously, by incremental analogical development. Judicial reasoning is characteristically practical, even pragmatic, with the resolution of concrete disputes paramount. The stability of the common law depends on strong shared, albeit implicit, understandings about its content. Academia might seem hostile to much of this. Academics are expected to build ambitious theories, to investigate legal rules to their theoretical foundations, to question and reject consensus, and above all to innovate. In pursuing such goals, legal scholars risk misconceiving the nature of the common law enterprise, and overlooking its strengths. Jonathan Morgan delivered his inaugural lecture as Professor of English Law on Friday 26 January 2024 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

Judges and jurists employ distinctive, and distinctly different, styles of reasoning. Judges develop the common law cautiously, by incremental analogical development. Judicial reasoning is characteristically practical, even pragmatic, with the resolution of concrete disputes paramount. The stability of the common law depends on strong shared, albeit implicit, understandings about its content. Academia might seem hostile to much of this. Academics are expected to build ambitious theories, to investigate legal rules to their theoretical foundations, to question and reject consensus, and above all to innovate. In pursuing such goals, legal scholars risk misconceiving the nature of the common law enterprise, and overlooking its strengths. Jonathan Morgan delivered his inaugural lecture as Professor of English Law on Friday 26 January 2024 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

January 10, 2024 - With the ever-growing need to understand ourselves and humanity as a whole, it is necessary to examine the concepts of morality, ethics and universal values as guiding principles of the human condition. With generous support from Y.T. Hwang Family Foundation, The Korea Society is launching a new lecture and conversation series titled Series on Ethics and Common Values. This series promotes the understanding of central themes of our human existence - morality, ethics, personal responsibility, compassion and civility - through a series of lectures by distinguished speakers and conversation with extraordinary individuals who exemplify the universal values in line with the mission of Y. T. Hwang Family Foundation and The Korea Society. The Korea Society and Y. T. Hwang Family Foundation is proud to present Dr. Jim Yong Kim, who will deliver the inaugural lecture of the new series. For more information, please visit the link below: https://www.koreasociety.org/arts-culture/item/1767-y-t-hwang-family-foundation-series-on-ethics-common-values-inaugural-lecture-by-dr-jim-yong-kim

The quality of public services – whether health, education, water supply, or sewage disposal – has a big impact on all of our lives. How to enhance that quality is therefore one of the big questions for political studies.Professor Marc Esteve is one of the leading experts on exactly that issue. We have recorded this special episode of our podcast to coincide with his inaugural lecture as Professor of Public Management here in the UCL Department of Political Science.  Mentioned in this episode:Assessing the Effects of User Accountability in Contracting Out, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.Determinants Of Network Outcomes: The Impact Of Management Strategies. Public Administration.The Political Hourglass: Opportunistic Behavior in Local Government Policy Decisions. International Public Management Journal You can watch Marc's inaugural lecture on our YouTube channel, where it will be uploaded in January 2023.

Our guest today is Professor Lisa Vanhala. A Professor in Political Science here at UCL and an expert on the politics of climate change. Lisa recently gave her inaugural lecture: Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage, offering a fascinating insight into the way that UN meetings and negotiations over climate change get framed, and how they proceed, informed by the ideas of Goffman and Bourdieu. She also examines the ways that civil society organisations engage with the law to shape policy and social change both around climate change and around equality and human rights, including in her award-winning first monograph, Making Rights a Reality? Disability Rights Activists and Legal Mobilization.Lisa joins us this week to talk about a comparative politics of climate change loss and damage. Mentioned in this episode:Lisa Vanhala, Cecilie Hestbaek. Framing Climate Change Loss and Damage in UNFCCC Negotiations. Global Environmental Politics.Lisa Vanhala, Angelica Johansson, Frances Butler. Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance: Hanging Out, Around, In, and Back. Global Environmental Politics.Lisa Vanhala. COP28: a year on from climate change funding breakthrough, poor countries eye disappointment at Dubai summit. The Conversation.Lisa's Inaugural Lecture. 

In this episode we continue our conversation with Jan de Muijnck-Hughes a Research Associate at Glasgow University. He works using all sorts of fancy type systems mostly targeted for hardware specification, particularly with the aid of the theorem prover Idris. This episode we start by talking a little about Impostor Syndrome in academia and how he has learned to cope with it and then we dive deeper into the technicalities of his research, in particular his philosophy on Type Directed Design of Systems. We talk about Session Types, Graded Types, Quantitative types, etc. Don't forget to join our new discord channel! If you like our show please consider donating any amount at ko-fi. Links Jan's website Jan's twitter Jan's mastodon Writing and Speaking with Style Artifact Eval Andrej Bauer: Formalising Invisible Mathematics Hedy language (Felienne Hermans) Hermans' Inaugural Lecture on making PL human and inclusive Epistemic Injustice Richard Eisenberg interview 'Software Foundations' but in Agda 'System F for Fun & Profit' Reviewing Project Pages https://dsbd-appcontrol.github.io/ https://border-patrol.github.io/ Cool People Rachit Nigam Clement Pit-Claudel Software Idris Language Biblio

In this episode we continue our conversation with Jan de Muijnck-Hughes a Research Associate at Glasgow University. He works using all sorts of fancy type systems mostly targeted for hardware specification, particularly with the aid of the theorem prover Idris. This episode we start by talking a little about Impostor Syndrome in academia and how he has learned to cope with it and then we dive deeper into the technicalities of his research, in particular his philosophy on Type Directed Design of Systems. We talk about Session Types, Graded Types, Quantitative types, etc. Don't forget to join our new discord channel! If you like our show please consider donating any amount at ko-fi. Links Jan's website Jan's twitter Jan's mastodon Writing and Speaking with Style Artifact Eval Andrej Bauer: Formalising Invisible Mathematics Hedy language (Felienne Hermans) Hermans' Inaugural Lecture on making PL human and inclusive Epistemic Injustice Richard Eisenberg interview 'Software Foundations' but in Agda 'System F for Fun & Profit' Reviewing Project Pages https://dsbd-appcontrol.github.io/ https://border-patrol.github.io/ Cool People Rachit Nigam Clement Pit-Claudel Software Idris Language Biblio

In this episode we continue our conversation with Jan de Muijnck-Hughes a Research Associate at Glasgow University. He works using all sorts of fancy type systems mostly targeted for hardware specification, particularly with the aid of the theorem prover Idris. This episode we start by talking a little about Impostor Syndrome in academia and how he has learned to cope with it and then we dive deeper into the technicalities of his research, in particular his philosophy on Type Directed Design of Systems. We talk about Session Types, Graded Types, Quantitative types, etc. Don't forget to join our new discord channel! If you like our show please consider donating any amount at ko-fi. Links Jan's website Jan's twitter Jan's mastodon Writing and Speaking with Style Artifact Eval Andrej Bauer: Formalising Invisible Mathematics Hedy language (Felienne Hermans) Hermans' Inaugural Lecture on making PL human and inclusive Epistemic Injustice Richard Eisenberg interview ‘Software Foundations' but in Agda ‘System F for Fun & Profit' Reviewing Project Pages https://dsbd-appcontrol.github.io/ https://border-patrol.github.io/ Cool People Rachit Nigam Clement Pit-Claudel Software Idris Language Biblio

In this episode we have a deep conversation with Jan de Muijnck-Hughes, talks about all the cool research he has done with idris, hardware and different kinds of interesting type systems such as session types, quantitative types and graded types. In the second half we discuss all the different kinds of problems that has been going on in PL academia lately and what we can do as a community to address those issues. Also, we have a discord channel now, join us! If you like our show please consider donating any amount at ko-fi. Errata: Jan mentions 'Jeff Foster' when, in fact, he meant Nate Foster This is the SIGCOMM 'Call': https://sigcomm.quest/ Felinne Hermans did her PhD at Eindhoven and not Delft Links Jan's website Jan's twitter Jan's mastodon Writing and Speaking with Style Artifact Eval Andrej Bauer: Formalising Invisible Mathematics Hedy language (Felienne Hermans) Hermans' Inaugural Lecture on making PL human and inclusive Epistemic Injustice Richard Eisenberg interview 'Software Foundations' but in Agda 'System F for Fun & Profit' Reviewing Project Pages https://dsbd-appcontrol.github.io/ https://border-patrol.github.io/ Cool People Rachit Nigam Clement Pit-Claudel Software Idris Language Biblio

In this episode we have a deep conversation with Jan de Muijnck-Hughes, talks about all the cool research he has done with idris, hardware and different kinds of interesting type systems such as session types, quantitative types and graded types. In the second half we discuss all the different kinds of problems that has been going on in PL academia lately and what we can do as a community to address those issues. Also, we have a discord channel now, join us! If you like our show please consider donating any amount at ko-fi. Errata: Jan mentions ‘Jeff Foster' when, in fact, he meant Nate Foster This is the SIGCOMM ‘Call': https://sigcomm.quest/ Felinne Hermans did her PhD at Eindhoven and not Delft Links Jan's website Jan's twitter Jan's mastodon Writing and Speaking with Style Artifact Eval Andrej Bauer: Formalising Invisible Mathematics Hedy language (Felienne Hermans) Hermans' Inaugural Lecture on making PL human and inclusive Epistemic Injustice Richard Eisenberg interview ‘Software Foundations' but in Agda ‘System F for Fun & Profit' Reviewing Project Pages https://dsbd-appcontrol.github.io/ https://border-patrol.github.io/ Cool People Rachit Nigam Clement Pit-Claudel Software Idris Language Biblio

In this episode we have a deep conversation with Jan de Muijnck-Hughes, talks about all the cool research he has done with idris, hardware and different kinds of interesting type systems such as session types, quantitative types and graded types. In the second half we discuss all the different kinds of problems that has been going on in PL academia lately and what we can do as a community to address those issues. Also, we have a discord channel now, join us! If you like our show please consider donating any amount at ko-fi. Errata: Jan mentions 'Jeff Foster' when, in fact, he meant Nate Foster This is the SIGCOMM 'Call': https://sigcomm.quest/ Felinne Hermans did her PhD at Eindhoven and not Delft Links Jan's website Jan's twitter Jan's mastodon Writing and Speaking with Style Artifact Eval Andrej Bauer: Formalising Invisible Mathematics Hedy language (Felienne Hermans) Hermans' Inaugural Lecture on making PL human and inclusive Epistemic Injustice Richard Eisenberg interview 'Software Foundations' but in Agda 'System F for Fun & Profit' Reviewing Project Pages https://dsbd-appcontrol.github.io/ https://border-patrol.github.io/ Cool People Rachit Nigam Clement Pit-Claudel Software Idris Language Biblio

Professor Lionel Smith gave his Downing Professor Inaugural Lecture on Friday 19 May 2023 at the Faculty of Law. The Downing Professorship was founded in 1800, supported from a bequest from Sir George Downing, the founder of Downing College. Previous holders have included Andrew Amos, FW Maitland, Sir William Ivor Jennings, Stanley de Smith, Gareth Jones and Sir John Baker. Professor Smith took up the Chair in October 2022, following the retirement of Dame Sarah Worthington. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

Professor Lionel Smith gave his Downing Professor Inaugural Lecture on Friday 19 May 2023 at the Faculty of Law. The Downing Professorship was founded in 1800, supported from a bequest from Sir George Downing, the founder of Downing College. Previous holders have included Andrew Amos, FW Maitland, Sir William Ivor Jennings, Stanley de Smith, Gareth Jones and Sir John Baker. Professor Smith took up the Chair in October 2022, following the retirement of Dame Sarah Worthington.

Professor Lionel Smith gave his Downing Professor Inaugural Lecture on Friday 19 May 2023 at the Faculty of Law. The Downing Professorship was founded in 1800, supported from a bequest from Sir George Downing, the founder of Downing College. Previous holders have included Andrew Amos, FW Maitland, Sir William Ivor Jennings, Stanley de Smith, Gareth Jones and Sir John Baker. Professor Smith took up the Chair in October 2022, following the retirement of Dame Sarah Worthington. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

Professor Lionel Smith gave his Downing Professor Inaugural Lecture on Friday 19 May 2023 at the Faculty of Law. The Downing Professorship was founded in 1800, supported from a bequest from Sir George Downing, the founder of Downing College. Previous holders have included Andrew Amos, FW Maitland, Sir William Ivor Jennings, Stanley de Smith, Gareth Jones and Sir John Baker. Professor Smith took up the Chair in October 2022, following the retirement of Dame Sarah Worthington.

Inauguration of the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies on 14 October 2021 with the Inaugural Lecture by Slavoj Žižek.

In this episode, John speaks to Professor Dave Petley, the new Vice-Chancellor at the University of Hull. Their conversation centres of Dave's work on landslides, their relationship to earthquakes, the evolution of slopes and how they can be better taught in the classroom. Dave has a wealth of knowledge, recounting his work in Taiwan as well as discussing events like the Sichuan Earthquake in 2008 and its after-effects. Follow Prof. Petley on Twitter here. Sign up for the Inaugural Lecture here. Watch the lecture Things are going downhill fast: Understanding massive landslides here.  Follow Prof. Petley's blog here.   Series 11 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Hodder Education. Hodder Education work with expert authors to produce the very best Key Stage 3, GCSE and A-level Geography resources for you and your students, and on their website, you'll discover exam board approved textbooks, revision guides, teaching support and more.

Dr. Chad Pecknold, an associate professor of theology at The Catholic University of America and the resident theologian at the Basilica of Saint Mary, gave the inaugural lecture of the Institute for Faith & Public Culture. His talk was titled “Sacred Fire: How the Church's Faith Became Integral to the Ancient City, and Can Become So Again!” It was given on January 23, 2022, at the Basilica Lyceum Auditorium. For more information on the Institute, please go to the following website: https://stmaryoldtown.org/introducing-the-basilica-of-saint-marys-institute-for-faith-public-culture/

Inaugural lecture - Prof. Rhona Schuz Watch the lecture on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xrNDSLVvAk

A lecture entitled ‘Shakespeare from the Periphery' by Professor Murphy held to mark Professor Murphy's appointment as Professor of English Literature (1867) at the School of English. The lecture demonstrated how Shakespeare's position as a central figure in global culture is due in part to the efforts of a set of little known figures operating – largely unremarked – in the cultural periphery.

October 14, 2021 | Inaugural Lecture Lecture: “Jesus and Dogs, or How to Command a Friend” Lecturer: Dr. John Bowlin, Robert L. Stuart Professor of Philosophy and Christian Ethics, Princeton Theological Seminary

Today, Dr. Kathryn Rudy speaks with host Sandra Hindman on a fascinating range of topics related to “touching” the book as well as the innovative techniques she has developed in her forensic approach to the study of manuscripts. Kathryn Rudy pioneered the use of the densitometer to measure the grime that original readers deposited in their books, but today she delves even further into her creative application of additional techniques such as RAK (Raking light) technologies to solve problems posed by “big dirty books” and the grubby face stains in books of hours. From her childhood discovery of inadvertent marks to tracing pollen dust, join Sandra Hindman and discover the most cutting edge technology in manuscript analysis. Kathryn Rudy is a manuscript historian at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in Art History, and a Licentiate in Mediaeval Studies from the University of Toronto. She has held research, teaching, and curatorial positions in the US, the UK, Canada, The Netherlands, and Belgium. Her research concentrates on the reception and original function of manuscripts, especially those manufactured in the Low Countries. She is currently developing new ways to track and measure user response of late medieval manuscripts. Dr. Rudy is the author of six books, including Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print (Open Book Publishers, 2019); Rubrics, Images and Indulgences in Late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts (Leiden: Brill, 2017); Piety in Pieces: How medieval readers customized their manuscripts (Open Book Publishers, 2016); and Postcards on Parchment: The Social Lives of Medieval Books(Yale University Press, 2015).  Resources: Kathryn M. Rudy, "Dirty Books: Quantifying Patterns of Use in Medieval Manuscripts Using a Densitometer," Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 2:1-2 (Summer 2010) https://jhna.org/articles/dirty-books-quantifying-patterns-of-use-medieval-manuscripts-using-a-densitometer/  “How the Grand Obituary of Notre-Dame (Paris, BnF, Ms. lat. 5185 CC) was Touched, Kissed, and Handled” Kathryn Rudy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixugb35bfcA  “How medieval users handled their manuscripts” Professor Kathryn Rudy, Inaugural Lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3FYjWov0gM    Les Enluminures x TEFAF Online: https://www.tefaf.com/visitors/sign_up 

In this episode we explore how to approach the great books as Christians, Enlightenment prejudices, and oft-forgotten Medieval classics through the very first lecture of the Old Western Culture course.Ep 4 - OWC Inaugural LectureOld Western Culture Year 1 - The GreeksWhat do the great books do for us?A Christian approach to the great books“The clean sea breeze of the centuries”Christianity vs. syncretism; a confessional approachEnlightenment prejudice in great books collectionsThe Consolation of PhilosophyRule of BenedictAnselm’s TheologyThe Golden LegendGeoffrey of MonmouthOld Western Culture Year 3 - ChristendomThe complete Christian classics reading listAncient Christians are our peopleConclusionQuestions and Suggestions Form

KZYX presents a special broadcast of Mendocino College’s Inaugural Lecture from the new Mendocino College Symposium, a speaker series focused on issues facing our community. The first speaker is Political Sciences Professor Philip Warf with a talk titled, "Thumb on the Scales: Using Gerrymandering and Voter-Suppression to Rig Elections.” Broadcast October 8, 2020 at 3pm on KZYX.

February 11, 2020 | Dr. Mark S. Smith's inaugural lecture, “‘What Have Canaan and Babylon to Do with Israel?’: The Problem of Ancient Near Eastern Divinity in the Biblical Godhead” Lecturer: Dr. Mark S. Smith, Helena Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis, Princeton Theological Seminary

This is a special episode of the CAHS podcast, as Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions Heather Ann Thompson delivers her inaugural lecture on 'American Prison Uprisings and Why They Matter Today', with introductory comments from Professor Gary Gerstle. Apologies for the quasi-'field recording' style of the audio here. Video of the lecture will be uploaded to the Cambridge History YouTube channel in the coming days. If you have any questions, suggestions or feedback, get in touch via @camericanist on Twitter or ltd27@cam.ac.uk. Spread the word, and thanks for listening!

Inaugural Lecture of Alice Oswald, Professor of Poetry, held at the University of Oxford Exam Schools.

Inaugural Lecture of Alice Oswald, Professor of Poetry, held at the University of Oxford Exam Schools.

During his inaugural lecture, Professor Gilson will show how ideas about vision and cognate faculties such as the wits and the imagination are central to Dante’s masterpiece, the Commedia. Understanding these concerns helps us to appreciate not only how his narrative is structured and enlivened but also raises fundamental questions about the poem’s status, ultimate themes and messages. Simon Gilson Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen College. He works on Dante and Renaissance Italian literary, cultural and intellectual history. He has published widely on Dante, literary criticism in Renaissance Italy, and the relations between science, philosophy and literary culture in medieval and Renaissance Italy.

In this next series, I am interviewing Women on the Rise. What it took, how they got there and how they stayed and managed a family or not. We are putting female voices into science, business and entrepreneurship that ends up shining a light on people's strength, courage and resilience when faced with obstacles. We talk neuroscience, brain health, fitness, travels, success and failures, tips and tricks. We are so much stronger than we think! Please join in the fun adventure and ping me if you want to share your story.Support the showLearn more at www.profselenabartlett.com

Professor Richard Stillman delivers his Fusion Inaugural Public Lecture, Limits of space and time: predicting how environmental change affects coastal birds at Sandbanks' Royal Motor Yacht Club in Poole Harbour.

Professor George Filis delivers his Fusion Inaugural Lecture: As if 15 years of oil price volatility was not enough... energy markets need to deal with Brexit now.

In her inaugural lecture, Professor of Behavioural Ecology Amanda Korstjens explores how monkey and ape behaviours are shaped by their environment. She also explains how human modifications to natural environments and climate change are affecting monkeys and apes globally, drawing on her research expertise and work in locations across the world.

“I always felt that clouds are a beautiful part of nature that we can become blind to." - Gavin Pretor-Pinney "The Get-Together" is a podcast about the nuts and bolts of community building. Hosts Bailey Richardson and Kevin Huynh of People & Company ask organizers who have built exceptional communities about just how they did it. How did they get the first people to show up? How did they grow to thousands more members? Today we'll talk to Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of The Cloud Appreciation Society. In 2004, a friend invited Gavin Pretor-Pinney, a graphic designer, to speak at a literary festival in Cornwall. In hopes of drawing a crowd, Gavin dreamt up an enticing title for his talk, “The Inaugural Lecture of the Cloud Appreciation Society.” The title worked. Gavin’s talk was chock full of attendees. When he invited audience members to claim an official society pin, Gavin was bombarded. People asked him for more information about the Cloud Appreciation Society, and Gavin had to tell them the society didn’t exist… yet. He went home and set up a simple website. After just a few months, 2,000 people had joined the society. Today, there are over 45,000 paying members around the world. How did Gavin build something so special? We called him at his home in Somerset, England, to find out.

Date of Recording: 07/12/2018 Description: Dr Peter Perla, 'The Art and Science of Wargaming to Innovate and Educate in an Era of Strategic Competition' What can we know about pressing security challenges through wargaming? How do we know? To mark the establishment of a new Wargaming Network, the School of Security Studies is launching a public lecture series on wargaming. The lectures will examine fundamental challenges for adapting wargaming theory and practice to usefully address contemporary security problems facing the UK and its NATO allies. The UK and its NATO allies have revived their interest in wargaming as a tool for strategic, operational and technological innovation in a new strategic environment marked by the return of major power competition. While the value of wargaming as a method for learning and teaching is well-accepted, its value as a rigorous academic method of inquiry is still largely contested. Dr Perla will re-examine the fundamental theoretical debate of whether wargaming should be considered an art or a science in the context of the changed security environment. The aim of the talk is to bring wargaming theory and practice to a new multi-disciplinary epistemological ground that would enable its useful contribution to advancing knowledge, informing policy and furthering education.

Professor Jian Chang from Bournemouth University's National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA), speaks about the history of computer animation and related technologies, illustrating how this has developed to the present. He will then look at what the future holds and the ways in which technology is evolving and changing our definition, production and consumption of computer animation. Recorded on Tuesday 27 November 2018.

Professor Sam Porter discusses common themes seen within fine art that reflect areas of sociology and social care in the 21st century at his Inaugural Lecture at the Shelley Theatre in Bournemouth on Tuesday 23 October 2018.

Description: Leadership & 'Conversation' in Dialogue: Securing Peace in the Unromantic Context Stable peace continues to elude societies grappling with cycles of violent conflict and general insecurity. About half of the situations where the United Nations has intervened to bring about peace have experienced violent relapse. Liberal peacebuilding has only delivered mixed results. Yet a suitable alternative is yet to emerge. This lecture will argue for new thinking and approach to building peace that places “Leadership” and “Conversation” at its core. These seemingly simple, every day buzzwords mean something profound and transforming in the hardheaded context of recurring violence. Conversation becomes the compass for leadership and the barometer for peace. This compels a shift in emphasis away from an idealized approach to the harsh realities of conflict-torn societies. Bio: Professor ’Funmi Olonisakin is Vice-President and Vice-Principal International and Professor of Security, Leadership & Development at King’s College London. She is also founding Director of the African Leadership Centre (ALC), which aims to build the next generation of African scholars and analysts generating cutting-edge knowledge for conflict, security and development in Africa. Prior to this, she was Programme Director of the ALC King’s College London MSc programmes on Security, Leadership and Society and MSc Leadership and Development as well as the Postgraduate Research Programme on Leadership Studies with Reference to Security and Development. _________________________________ For more information on news and upcoming events, please visit our website at kcl.ac.uk/warstudies.

22/05/2018 The Pursuit of World Order in Anglo-American Statecraft Description: The pursuit of world order has been an almost ever-present feature of Western — more specifically, American and British — statecraft for over a century. It is embedded in a discourse about international affairs that can be traced back to the late 19th century, when Britain became increasingly conscious of the fragility of its empire, and the United States began to recognise the full extent of its potential power. Since that time, “world order” has been used as shorthand for a vast range of potential scenarios: from a unified “world state,” governed by a single supranational institution (envisaged by H.G. Wells), to a balance of power between different civilisational blocs (an idea more commonly associated with Henry Kissinger). Either way, the historical record suggests that one’s view of world order is inseparable from one’s worldview. It reveals the beholder’s hope for how the world should or could be, rather than simply how it is. Viewed over the long-term, as Professor Bew will argue, the yearning for world order has provided a sense of higher purpose and an explanatory spine to the story of American and British foreign policy. Find out more about the speaker, Professor John Bew, Department of War Studies (School of Security Studies): https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/people/professors/bew.aspx ____________________________ For information on our upcoming events, please visit www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/events or follow @warstudies on Twitter.

Why did so many European luminaries who had lived through the turmoil of the French Revolution turn to Scotland as a state that might represent a model for the future of the world? In this Inaugural Lecture, Professor Richard Whatmore explains why so many figures at the end of the eighteenth century felt that the Enlightenment had failed, and that a new beginning was necessary in politics, economics, religion and culture. Europe had been torn apart by war and revolution; Scotland appeared to offer grounds for optimism, being characterised by economic development, religious peace and a distinctive sense of identity.

Collège de France 2015-2016 José-Alain Sahel Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt (2015-2016) Inaugural lecture: Reconciling Vision

Collège de France Georges Calas Sustainable Development - Environment, Energy and Society 2014-2015 Inaugural lecture : Mineral Resources, the Basis of Our Industrial Civilization: Major Challenges for the 21st Century

Professor Huw Price delivers his inaugural lecture as Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy: Where would we be without counterfactuals? Recorded on 1st November 2012.

Professor Huw Price delivers his inaugural lecture as Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy: Where would we be without counterfactuals? Recorded on 1st November 2012.