IN SIGHTS
5Tuesday 31 January
President Trump: prospects and problems
Evening Lectures, 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
Free admission and open to all
5Tuesday 14 February
LGBT History Month Lecture
Professor Iwan Morgan, University College London
1967 and LGBT liberation
In the week of his inauguration, this lecture looks to the 45th
President of the United States. It will offer an early evaluation of
how history may judge President Obama’s leadership in an age
of extreme polarisation, consider the 2016 presidential election
in terms of its meaning for Obama’s legacy and President
Trump’s prospects, and assess whether Trump can deal with the
challenges of presidential leadership.
Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner
5Thursday 2 February
5Tuesday 21 February
Jubilee Development Lecture
Freedom City 2017 Lecture
Ten years after the Stern Review on the economics
of climate change: looking back, looking forward
The courage to listen
Lord Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government and
Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the
Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
Ten years since the launch of the Stern Review, which set out
to examine the economic impacts of climate change, its key
messages are still highly relevant, indeed even stronger. Global
response has been slow but is picking up and agreements made
in 2015 and 2016 provide hope for stronger action, which is
now ever more pressing. The decisions made in the next two
decades on how we build and design infrastructure, cities and
technologies will shape the next century and beyond.
5Wednesday 8 February
Albert Latner Memorial Lecture in Clinical Biochemistry
Give me sunshine
Bill Fraser, Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
In Summer 2016, Public Health England advised the government
that to protect bone and muscle health, everyone needs vitamin D
equivalent to an average daily intake of 10 micrograms. Vitamin D is
made in the skin by the action of sunlight and this is the main source
of vitamin D for most people. In this lecture, Professor Fraser will
discuss the role of this important vitamin in health and disease.
It is 50 years since Parliament passed the Sexual Offences Act.
That reform only offered a partial, limited decriminalisation of male
homosexuality, however: anti-LGBT laws remained on the statute
book, convictions rocketed by nearly 400%, and discrimination
and violence against LGBT people remained rife – with the full
sanction of the law.
Reverend Jeffrey L Brown, Baptist minister and President of
RECAP (Rebuilding Every Community Around Peace)
Based on the forthcoming book of the same name, this talk
recounts the lessons Reverend Brown learned working with
street and drug gangs in the inner city of Boston, and his larger
work of bringing together conflicting constituencies in civil society
for peace. At a time when division is prominent, Reverend Brown
charts a way forward to bring people together.
5Tuesday 28 February
Lenin on the Train
Professor Catherine Merridale FBA, writer and historian
In April 1917, at the height of the First World War, Vladimir Ilyich
Lenin took a train from his place of exile in Zurich. He was the
leader of the most intransigent of Marxist factions, the Russian
Bolsheviks, and he was heading for the revolutionary Russian
capital, Petrograd. As the centenary of this event approaches,
this lecture will explore the politics and retrace the route – which
includes a cast of plotters, chancers, spies and dreamers –
behind the most momentous train journey in history.
5Thursday 2 March
Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers
5Thursday 16 March
R W Mann Lecture
Stephen Graham, Professor of Cities and Society, Newcastle
University
Race to the top – productivity, investment and
industrial strategy in the post-Brexit world
What does it mean to be above or below in today’s rapidly
urbanising world? As humans excavate deep into the earth,
build ever higher into the skies, and saturate airspaces
and inner orbits with all sorts of machines, how might we
understand the remarkable verticalities of our world? From
satellites to bunkers, this lecture will explore today’s geography
from a new vertical perspective as a way of gaining fresh
insights into how power and inequality work in our world.
Chi Onwurah, Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and
Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy, Science and Innovation
5Tuesday 7 March
Technologies for bee health
Mike Brown, Head of the National Bee Unit, Animal and Plant
Health Agency
The Animal and Plant Health Agency’s National Bee Unit
(NBU) delivers the government’s Healthy Bees Plan – a major
component of NBU’s work is surveillance and control of honey
bees’ pests and diseases in apiaries across the UK. Mike
Brown will discuss the work of the NBU: how it has evolved
over the years and how we have harnessed tools such as
modern diagnostics and modelling techniques to underpin
bee health work and tackle future challenges.
5Thursday 9 March
Tyneside Geographical Society Lecture
Citizenship and equality
Vera Baird QC, Crime and Police Commissioner for Northumbria
and Kaneez Shaid, Chair of Trustees, Citizens UK
This conversation between two prominent figures in community
politics will provide insights into community alliances aimed at
creating a sense of fairness and a platform for empowering
marginalised voices. Vera Baird and Kaneez Shaid will explore
identities of citizenship and equality that are forged in the public
spaces of civil society – locally, nationally and in a broader ethic
of care for human rights.
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Chi Onwurah has previously held the positions of Shadow
Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy and Shadow
Cabinet Office Minister leading on cyber security, social
entrepreneurship, open government and transparency. From
2010–13 Chi was Shadow Minister for Innovation, Science
and Digital Infrastructure, working closely with the science and
business community, with industry on broadband issues, and
on the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill.
5Tuesday 21 March
What is the relationship between genetics
and social mobility? Implications for policy
and social science
Professor Leon Feinstein, Director of Evidence, Children’s
Commissioner for England
Findings from genetics studies are transforming the scientific
understanding of how biology and social environments interact
to determine life outcomes, passed down across generations.
At the same time there continues to be interest in using social
and economic policy to reduce barriers to social mobility
and intergenerational poverty and disadvantage. Professor
Feinstein explains why the science of heredity is not in conflict
with attempts to address social inequality but rather indicates
the remarkable degree to which beliefs and institutions create
barriers to equality of opportunity or outcome.
5Thursday 23 March
Voices and books: a new history of reading
Jennifer Richards, Joseph Cowen Professor of English
Literature, Newcastle University
This lecture explores the importance of the physical voice –
breath and tone – to reading. It explains how the recovery
of the lost reading voices of the past, as well as the art of
listening, can help us to re-imagine the books of the future.
Three doctoral candidates from the Faculty of Humanities and
Social Sciences will talk about their research and how they
intend to contribute to a debate about the key societal theme
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In the current climate of global political uncertainty, there are
serious and hotly contested debates over the role of the arts
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and humanities in civil society. Has the discipline of history
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become the handmaiden of contemporary politics? Can history
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really make a difference to how government policies are made,
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considering the ‘lessons of the past’? Should valuable public
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austerity? A distinguished panel will debate these questions.
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A pre-eminent academic and historian of post-World War II
American political history and most notably the troubled politics
of the South, Professor Badger has published widely on race
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He was a prominent member of the History Department at
Newcastle University for 20 years before taking up a Visiting
Professorship at Tulane University, New Orleans. He then
moved to Cambridge University, retiring in 2014, and has
recently renewed his links with Newcastle as Professor of
American History at Northumbria University.
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Richardson Road take the view that the growth
multinational companies operating on a global basis is now so
well developed that cities are best viewed as helpless victims in
a global flow of events. Distant, unelected decision-makers now
determine city futures, not urban residents. This lecture rejects
this view and offers a fresh way of thinking about our urban future.
It presents a new conceptual framework for understanding placebased leadership, with examples of inspirational civic leadership
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drawn from other countries, and how
English universities could
be the sleeping giants of place-based leadership.
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This lecture will trace Donald Trump’s populism, power,
and pugnaciousness in Captain America, which proclaims
both liberal values and American exceptionalism. As such, it
provides resources from which Trump draws, with potential for
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Professor Dittmer argues that the fragmentation of
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5Thursday 11 May
Leading theSports
inclusive city: an international
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Trump in the age of Captain America/
Captain America in the age of Trump
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The talk will highlight the narrow way in which public policy
is viewed in economics, and the implications of this for
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the role public policies have had in envisioning
change and creating public value that goes beyond the
mainstream notion of the public good, the role of policy
in market making and shaping and how this can lead to
more inclusive growth.
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Economics of Innovation, University of Sussex
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5Thursday 27 April
Rethinking public value
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NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY LECTURES FOR ALL
Newcastle University welcomes you to its Spring 2017 Insights
programme. Given by public figures and eminent scholars, the
lectures cover a wide range of topics, are free and open to all.
All seats are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
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5Tuesday 9 May Note: 5.30–7.00pm
Debate: Why history?
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5Tuesday 25 April
New voices on social renewal
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