Gresham College Lectures
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Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
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Cicero In and On Political Crises - Melissa Lane
This lecture was recorded by Melissa Lane on the 11th of June 2026
Melissa Lane is the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton Uni...
Forging Better Futures for You and AI - Matt Jones
In this last lecture, I will work to wake us from the AI as Overlord spell. We will explore other possible futures, looking first look at the potentia...
Current Challenges to the US Constitution - Clive Stafford Smith
The Americans are very proud of their written constitution. During the first 3/8 of President Trump’s second term of office, the constitution has been...
Shock of the Nude: Pioneering Women Artists and the Cultural Politics of Modern China - Di Wang
This lecture was recorded by Dr Di Wang on the 8th of June 2026 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London
Dr Di Wang is an art historian and curator....
Pluto Isn’t a Planet - Chris Lintott
This lecture was recorded by Chris Lintott on the 3rd of June 2026
Professor Chris Lintott is a Professor of Astrophysics at the Universi...
Plato to Polybius on Constitutional Change - Melissa Lane
This lecture was recorded by Melissa Lane on the 28th of May 2026 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London
Melissa Lane is the Class of 1943 Profess...
Going Global: Chinese Independent Documentary - Luke Robinson
This lecture will focus on independently produced Chinese documentary cinema as it has entered the Anglophone industry market. Using “Plastic China” b...
Should We Manipulate People’s Emotions? - Robin May
This lecture was recorded by Robin May on the 20th of May 2026 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London
Professor of Infectious Disease at the Unive...
Society and Survival During the Holocaust - Mary Fulbrook
This lecture focuses on experiences of hiding and help during the Holocaust across Europe, including the German Reich itself, to highlight the signifi...
Music of the Body - Milton Mermikides
Music and biology are profoundly entwined. The heart beats, footsteps fall into familiar tempi, and even the movement of our limbs follows a natural r...
The Pill and the Planet - Ian Mudway
Modern medicine's success in extending lifespans comes at an environmental cost. This lecture explores the pollution from single-use plastics, pharmac...
How Hard is too Hard? An Introduction to Complexity - Colva Roney-Dougal
This lecture was recorded by Colva Roney-Dougal on the 11th of May 2026 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London
Colva Mary Roney-Dougal OBE is a British m...
Making Memory Visible Through Photograph - Julia Winckler
With an academic background in social, cultural anthropology and photography, I have spent the last twenty-five years working on projects that have br...
Dionysus: Lord of Misrule - Ronald Hutton
This lecture was recorded by Ronald Hutton on the 6th May 2026 at Barnard’s Inn Hall, London
Professor Hutton is Professor of History at...
A Living Planet - Helen Czerski
Earth is a living planet. But how much life is there, and what is it doing? We will discuss the distribution of biomass on Earth, and compare the effe...
Music, Death and Afterlife - Mieko Kanno
This lecture was recorded by Mieko Kanno on the 5th May 2026 at Barnard’s Inn Hall, London
Mieko Kanno is a violinist and an academic, ac...
Give Peace a Chance: Legal Implications of the Israel-Palestine Conflict - Clive Stafford Smith
This lecture was recorded by Clive Stafford Smith on the 30th of April 2026 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London
Clive Stafford Smith JD OBE is...
The Shape of Tiles: Regular and Irregular, Hard and Soft - Alain Goriely
Tiling involves filling a plane or space with repeated elements, known as tiles. This simple concept is deeply embedded in the natural world and human...
The Ground We Stand On - Helen Czerski
This lecture was recorded by Helen Czerski on the 19th of February 2026 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London
Helen Czerski is a physicist and oc...
Tales from Television: Bringing the Natural World into Your Home - George McGavin
New camera technology can help make stunning footage for natural history programmes but the key to success is down to a lot of hard work, planning and...
Science behind Love and Grief - Podcast with Robin May
This episode of the Gresham College Podcast features an interview with Robin May, hosted by Jeoffrey Sarpong. Professor Robin May is a Professor of In...
Why Do We Love? - Robin May
This lecture was recorded by Robin May on the 22nd of April 2026 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London
Professor of Infectious Disease at the Uni...
Taming AI - Matt Jones
Watch the Q&A session: https://youtu.be/gj4d75_Clgg
In this lecture, we look at proposals to limit AI powers and impacts, so bad outcomes...
A World Without Work - Daniel Susskind
In the future, we may face ‘structural’ technological unemployment in the labour market – where there is no longer enough work to occupy the human wor...
The Dictionary City: Londoners and the Oxford English Dictionary - Sarah Ogilvie
Londoners who helped create the world's largest English dictionary. She has unearthed a fascinating group of people across all social classes who repr...
Music of the Mind - Milton Mermikides
This lecture was recorded by Milton Mermikides on the 15th of April 2026 at LSO, London
Milton Mermikides is a composer, guitarist, techn...
"Unsquaring” the Square Mile: Connecting People with Opportunity - Susan Langley
Moving the conversation on social mobility out of the boardroom and into the mainstream, the Lady Mayor Dame Susan Langley will set out her ambition t...
The Shape of Gravity: Why On Earth Are Planets Spherical? - Alain Goriely
This lecture was recorded by Alain Goriely on the 3rd of March 2026 at Barnard’s Inna Hall, London
Alain Goriely is a mathematician with...
The Death of Athenian Democracy? - Melissa Lane
This lecture was recorded by Melissa Lane on the 12th of March 2026 at Barnard’s Inna Hall, London
Melissa Lane is the Class of 1943 Prof...
Guantánamo on the Euphrates? Syria in a Time of Opportunity - Clive Stafford Smith
This lecture was recorded by Stafford Smith on the 19th of March 2026 at Barnard’s Inn Hall, London
Clive Stafford Smith JD OBE is a dual...
The Universe’s 100th Birthday: Galactic Fireworks and Little Red Dots - Chris Lintott
100 years ago this year, Edwin Hubble published the first conclusive evidence that there were galaxies beyond the Milky Way. This lecture, using new r...
Bridget: Goddess and Saint - Professor Ronald Hutton
This lecture was recorded by Ronald Hutton on the 10th of March 2026 at Barnard’s Inna Hall, London
Professor Hutton is Professor of History at...
Oligarchs and Their Discontents - Melissa Lane
This lecture was recorded by Professor Melissa Lane on 5th March 2026 at Barnard’s Inn Hall, London.
Melissa Lane is the Class of 1943 Pr...
Why Do We Hate? - Robin May
Hatred is one of the most destructive human emotions, responsible for some of the greatest atrocities that humans have committed against each other. B...
Born Supremacy – AI as a Pale Shadow of Real Humanity - Professor Matt Jones
In this lecture, we glimpse our best selves and compare that to a world where we lose everything of ourselves to AI. We are glorious creations that re...
That's Not Funny: The Ethics of Satire - Judith Hawley
It used to be taken for granted that satire uses nasty means to good ends: it ridicules its targets in order to bring about reform. However, in recen...
Work, Out of Reach - Daniel Susskind
Right now, the technological challenge we are most likely to face in the labour market is ‘frictional’ technological unemployment – where there is ple...
Gresham College Podcast with Antony Penrose
This episode of the Gresham College Podcast features an interview with Antony Penrose, hosted by Jeoffrey Sarpong. Antony Penrose is a film maker, pho...
Lee Miller: Why Her Photography Still Matters Today - Antony Penrose
What is it that makes an image stick in our memory against our will? People find many of Lee Miller’s combat photographs have this indelible quality,...
Music of Earth and Space - Professor Milton Mermikides
Since Pythagoras, we have imagined the universe as a vast, resonant instrument—a cosmic harmony waiting to be heard. From Holst’s orchestral visions o...