Fellows' talks and lectures
A collection of talks and lectures delivered by our current and previous Fellows, which might be of interest to prospective applicants looking to develop their interest in their subject(s).
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Sir Christopher Hum
The 21st Century Does Not Belong To China (2013)
Computer Science
Prof. Peter Robinson
Royal Society Summer Science exhibition (2006)
Tabletop interfaces for remote collaboration (2009)
Interactive control of music using emotional body expressions (2008)
The emotional computer (2010)
Forty-two Evolution (2015)
Computing with feelings (2016)
Eye gaze technology and deep learning (2016)
The rise of AI: Are we different from machines? (2019)
Economics
Dr Victoria Bateman
The Role of Cities in the History of Capitalism (2016)
On Milton Friedman, markets and freedom (2018)
Engineering
Dr Francesca De Domenico
Women in Combustion (2018)
Dr Giorgia Longobardi
GaN Power devices - Summary and Introduction (2016)
GaN Power devices - Physics of GaN devices (2016)
GaN Power devices - the HEMT (2016)
GaN Power devices - Failure mechanisms (2016)
GaN Power devices - Normally OFF devices (2016)
GaN Power devices - Commerciallly available devices in 2015, comparison with other WBG devices (2016)
English
Mr Jeremy Prynne
Poetry Lecture at the University of Chicago (2009)
History
Prof. David Abulafia
A Global Transition: From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic (2014)
Global Trade: The Beginnings (2015)
Lubeck and the Hanseatic League: The Birthplace of the Common Market (2016)
The Role of Cities in the History of Capitalism (2016)
Dr Melissa Calaresu
The “New Materiality” in Social Studies (2015)
CRASSH Thoughtlines podcast: ‘We are what you eat’, 19/1/2021
Interview with ‘The Feast’, with Vicky Avery, on ‘Feast & Fast: How clean eating came to early modern Europe’
Feast & Fast: The art of food in Europe 1500-1800, Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition, 2019-2020. Including two community-engagement films, with Egg & Spoon Films.
Dr Bronwen Everill
The Age of Plunder: How We Traded Africa (2015)
Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan: Best of December Books 2020
BBC In Our Time: The Zong Massacre
The Social Innovation Think Tank
Wilberforce Institute Debate: Not Made By Slaves
Prof. Peter Mandler
Interviews about The Crisis of the Meritocracy: New Books Network podcast, 20 Nov. 2020; Mile End Institute Podcast, 24 Feb. 2021
Ten Minute Talk for British Academy, ‘The Crisis of the Meritocracy’, 30 Sep. 2020
Interview for Channel 4 News podcast, ‘The Fourcast’, ‘History: What Is It Good For?’, 19 Apr. 2021
Interview with Historical Association, 30 Apr. 2020
Lecture for Historical Association, 'The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870', 21 October 2020
Prof. Sujit Sivasundaram
Colonising Knowledge in the Kingdom of Kandy (2010)
In the Bay of Bengal: Modelling Empire, Globe and Self (2020)
The Prothero Lecture 2019: ‘Waves Across the South: Monarchs, Travellers and Empire in the Pacific'
New Books podcast (2020)
On the pangolin and COVID-19
History of Art
Prof. Paul Binski
Introduction to Wall Paintings (2015)
Rome and England in the Gothic Age: thoughts on the Heroic mode (2016)
Gothic Sculpture: Idols Old and New (2018)
Marginalia: Images on the edge (2020)
Law
Prof. Louise Gullifer
III Oxford Symposium on Comparative International Commercial Arbitration (2018)
Mathematics
Prof. Fernando Quevedo
The Search for the Fundamental Theory of the Universe (2018)
String Theory Cosmology Before, During and After Inflation (2020)
Prof. Ivan Smith
A symplectic Khovanov Puzzlebook (2015)
Stability conditions in symplectic topology (2018)
Medicine
Prof. Patrick Chinnery
Rare Disease Day (2019)
Genomic Seminar (2019)
Prof. Joe Herbert
The power and influence of testosterone (2015)
Prof. Kay-Tee Khaw
Can we slow ageing? Lessons from an EPIC cohort (2018)
Dr KJ Patel
The genetic basis of protection against genotoxic metabolites (2014)
Natural Sciences
Prof. Christine Holt
Wiring up the brain: How axons navigate (2017)
Dr Ulrich Keyser
DNA nanotechnology for designing ion channels and porins (2016)
Dr Emilie Ringe
Seeing our world, one atom at a time (2015)
Philosophy
Dr Arif Ahmed
Is religion a force for good or evil? (2013)
