Enlightenment lectures (audio)
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Julia Marton-Lefèvre - The Promise of 2015: Hopes for a New Environmental Enlightenment
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Julia Marton-Lefèvre, environmentalist and academic, delivers the final lecture in the 2015 Our Changing World series. This lecture is also part of o...
Prof. Lord Robert Winston - Medicine, Ethics and Society
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Lord Robert Winston delivers a lecture entitled Medicine, Ethics and Society.This lecture is part of the University's "Our Changing World" p...
Prof. Mary Robinson - Human rights in the modern world
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Mary Robinson speaks on how human rights interact with the modern world. In office from 1990 to 1997, Professor Robinson was the seventh Pre...
Prof. Stefan Collini - From Belles-Lettres to Eng-Lit: Criticism and its Publics
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Stefan Collini re-examines the history of the activity of literary criticism and discipline of English Literature. In the 250 years since th...
Prof. Amartya Sen - David Hume and the Demands of Ethics
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Snow - A Changing Media in a Changing World
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Broadcaster and journalist Jon Snow examines the impact of digital technology, social websites and citizen journalism on the second-oldest profession....
Lord Nigel Crisp - Turning the World Upside Down: The Search for Global Health in the 21st Century
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lord Crisp discusses why health systems worldwide need to change and why the time for a new conversation is now. This lecture was recorded on 25 May 2...
Mr Hugh Cheape - A Neo-baroque Strain in Scottish Folk Music
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mr Hugh Cheape, Curator of the Museum of Scotland, presents a discussion seminar examining the neo-baroque strain in Scottish folk music
Dr Adam Fox - 18th Century Street Theatre: Bedlamites and Buffoons
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Adam Fox presents a discussion seminar examining the 18th century street theatre.
Dr Stana Nenadic - The Performance of Sociability in the Age of Enlightenment OR They do it with Mirrors
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Stana Nenadic presents a discussion seminar examining the performance of sociability.
Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones - Handel In The Orient
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones presents a discussion seminar examining Handel in the Orient.
Dr Stephen Lloyd - Raeburn and His Patrons
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Stephen Lloyd presents an illustrated talk that begins to map out the web of establishment patronage in Edinburgh and Scotland that supported the p...
Dr Walter Willett - The Optimal Diet for 21st Century Living
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For the last 20 years the focus of nutritional advice has been to reduce total fat intake and consume large amounts of carbohydrate. However, this adv...
Prof. Steven Pinker - The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Language is the main channel in which human beings share the contents of their consciousness. It offers a window into human nature, revealing the hidd...
Jose Manuel Barroso - European Union in the 21st Century
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, presents an Enlightenment Lecture, entitled European Union in the 21st Century. Jose Manuel...
Dr Lawrence Klein - A Retired Shopkeeper Makes Enlightenment
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Lawrence Klein presents an Enlightenment Lecture, entitled A Retired Shopkeeper Makes Enlightenment: Edmund Rack in Bath, 1775-1787. The Enlightenm...
Prof. Tom Devine - A Puzzle from the Past: Why the Scottish Enlightenment Happened
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Tom Devine, the Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography, presents the third lecture in the Enlightenment series. Profe...
Prof. Joseph Stiglitz - Globalisation and the 21st Century Enlightenment
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The University of Edinburgh Enlightenment Lecture Series with the support of ScottishPower presents Globalisation & the 21st Century Enlightenment by ...
Irene Khan - The War on Terror, A War on Liberty?
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, presented the inaugural Enlightenment Lecture, entitled The War on Terror - A War on Liberty? ...
Prof. Steve Jones - Is Human Evolution Over?
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Leading geneticist Steve Jones asks 'Is Human Evolution Over?' as part of the Enlightenment Lecture Series.