A series of lectures from Edinburgh University focussing on the challenges facing the world. Distinguished speakers deliver the free lectures. Book your place online here.
The lectures will be held on Tuesday evenings, from 6.30pm to 7.30pm in Lecture Theatre 4, Appleton Tower, 11 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9LE except for the final lecture to be given by Jon Snow on Friday 19 November.
Global challenges: the perfect storm?
Tuesday 28th September 2010, 6.30 – 7.30pm
Professor Paul van Gardingen, UNESCO Chair of International Development and Executive Director: The University of Edinburgh International Development Centre.
Climate change: past, present and future
Tuesday 5 October 2010, 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Professor Gabriele Hegerl, Professor of Climate System Science, The University of Edinburgh
Climate change: the solutions?
Tuesday 12 October 2010, 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Dr David Reay, Programme Director, MSc in Carbon Management
Population: how much of a problem?
Tuesday 19 October 2010, 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Professor Roger Jeffery, School of Social and Political Science, The University of Edinburgh
One world one health – from rhetoric towards reality
Tuesday 26 October 2010, 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Professor Sue Welburn, Professor of Medical and Veterinary Molecular Epidemiology
The invisible enemy: microbes and us
Tuesday 2 November 2010, 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Professor Dorothy Crawford, Robert Irvine Professor of Medical Microbiology and Assistant Principal for Public Understanding of Medicine
Are stem cells the future of regnerative medicine?
Tuesday 9 November 2010, 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Professor Siddharthan Chandran, Director of the Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research. Professor Charles ffrench-Constant, Chair of Medical Neurology, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, The University of Edinburgh
A changing media in a changing world – entering the golden age of journalism, or leaving it?
Friday 19 November 2010, 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Jon Snow, Journalist and broadcaster.
Founding Editor of The Edinburgh Reporter.
Edinburgh-born multimedia journalist and iPhoneographer.
