Darwin College Lecture Series

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In the second term of each academic year, since 1986, Darwin College has organised a series of eight public lectures, built around a single theme, with a mul...

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How song shapes society, and society shapes song Richard Morrison

Palestinian Song in Transition Dr Issa Boulos

Songs of the Stars Unravelling Stellar Music with Asteroseismology Professor Conny Aerts

Hearing Her Voice Women musicians in Vienna 1900 Carola Darwin

Song in the Ancient World Echoes of Religion and Resistance Matthew Gordley

Songs We Grow By Ibrahim Baltagi

Throat Singing Body, Spirit, Pathways, Place Carole Pegg

Notes and Noises in Nature Not a Swan Song Hans Slabbekoorn

Song 2026 - Lecture Series Poster

Decoding Our Humanity - Professor Shannon Vallor

Polari - a Very Queer Code - Professor Paul Baker

Wayfinding through the Human Genome - Dr Keolu Fox

Eve's Byte of the Apple - Sandi Toksvig

Epigenetics A Code upon a Code - Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith

Using Maths to Decode the Universe - Dr Tom Crawford

The Power of Music A Journey Back to Home - Maya Youssef

Bits with Soul - Professor Simon Peyton Jones

The Cultural Revolution - Tania Branigan

Revolution by Natural Selection - Professor Nick Lane, University College London

Worlds turned upside down Quiet Revolutions in Art - Professor Frances Spalding

The Exoplanet Revolution - Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge

A Revolution in Thought - Dr Iain McGilchrist

Are Revolutions justified - Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics

The Genetic Revolutions - Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester

On the Disappointment of Revolutions - Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University

Darwin College Lecture Series 2024 - Introduction

Isolation of Atomic Mechanisms the Choreographer at Play - Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea - Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge

Are we alone in the Universe - Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers - Professor Philip Jones, University College London