Dr Douglas Hedley (Clare College, Cambridge, and the Faculty of Divinity) introduces Plato's 'Timaeus'.

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (7) Michaelmas/Lent 2015-16

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Wed 17 Feb 2016

Charles Dickens' great novel 'Bleak House' is introduced by David Beckingham (Sidney Sussex College and the Faculty of Geography), who reflects on the evolving city which serves...

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (5) Lent 2014

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Thu 13 Feb 2014

Dr Emma Gilby (Sidney Sussex and MML) describes the genesis and impact of Descartes' famous rationalist dictum.

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (4) Michaelmas 2013

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Sat 21 Dec 2013

Dr Jillaine Seymour (Sidney Sussex College) provides an introduction to Human Rights.

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (3) Lent 2013

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Tue 26 Feb 2013

Dr Martin Ruehl (Trinity Hall and the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages) introduces the thought of Nietzsche and his seminal work 'Beyond Good and Evil'.

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (3) Lent 2013

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Fri 1 Mar 2013

Sidney Fellow Dr Rhys Jones introduces Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, its historical context, and its cultural impact.

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (8): 2017-8

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Tue 9 Jan 2018

Dr Richard Staley (History and Philosophy of Science) describes the social, cultural, and political contexts in which Einstein developed and promulgated his theory of General...

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (4) Michaelmas 2013

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Sat 21 Dec 2013

Monday 9th May 2011. the Great Tit nestbox at jesus has seen plenty of activity this weekend with so far 7 out of the 8 great tit eggs hatching.

Collection: Pavilion Birdbox Camera Jesus College

Institution: Jesus College

Created: Mon 9 May 2011

The Scottish poet and critic Lachlan Mackinnon introduces the life and works of W H Auden.

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (7) Michaelmas/Lent 2015-16

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Wed 17 Feb 2016

Lord Rowan Williams (Magdalene College) provides an overview of the life, works, and thought of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (5) Lent 2014

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Thu 13 Feb 2014

Dr Mette Eilstrup Sangiovanni (Sidney and POLIS) gives an introduction to International Relations after the age of American hegemony.

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (5) Lent 2014

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Thu 26 Jun 2014

Our own Fellow and DoS in Philosophy Paulina Sliwa introduces Aristotle's 'Nichomachean Ethics'.

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (7) Michaelmas/Lent 2015-16

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Wed 17 Feb 2016

Prof. Andrew Balmford (FRS, Faculty of Zoology) introduces some of the challenges facing

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (5) Lent 2014

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Thu 26 Jun 2014

Prof. Christopher Page, Fellow of Sidney Sussex College as well as Professor of Medieval Music and Literature and Gresham Professor of Music, provides an introduction to the great...

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (6): Michaelmas 2014

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Tue 16 Dec 2014

Prof. David Tong (Trinity & DAMTP) introduces the latest discoveries in the field of gravity, as well as providing an overview of how we got from Newton through Einstein to where...

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (8): 2017-8

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Thu 9 Nov 2017

Prof. John Forrester, of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, provides an introduction to Freud's great work 'On the Interpretation of Dreams'.

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (6): Michaelmas 2014

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Tue 16 Dec 2014

Prof. Paul Binski (Gonville and Caius College and the Deparment of the History of Art) introduces the first painter of the Italian Renaissance, Giotto.

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (2) Michaelmas 2012

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Mon 25 Feb 2013

Prof. Robin Kirkpatrick (Robinson College and the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages) introduces Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (2) Michaelmas 2012

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Thu 28 Feb 2013

Prof. Rosamond McKitterick (Sidney Sussex College and the Faculty of HIstory) provides an overview of the life and achievements of Charlemagne, starting from Einhard's 'Life of...

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (4) Michaelmas 2013

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Sat 21 Dec 2013

Darwin and the ascent of emotionally modern man: how humans became such hypersocial apes
Professor Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (University of California, Davis, USA)

Summary: As...

Collection: Darwin Festival 2009

Institution: Department of Biological Anthropology

Created: Mon 30 Nov 2009