Lady Margaret Lectures: Recent Episodes
Cambridge University
Professor Sir Michael Edwards, Honorary Fellow, will be giving a Lady Margaret Lecture 'On Not Writing Poetry at the Brasserie Lipp' in the Yusuf Hamied Theatre at 5:30pm on Wednesday 26 February 2020.Edwards
A view from the inside of poetry and of its place in the world, through a creative journey leading to the writing of poetry in French followed by a recent return to English. With readings from At the Brasserie Lipp.
Professor Sir David Klenerman FRS FMedSci, Fellow of the College, will be giving a Lady Margaret Lecture 'Watching Molecules in Action' in the Yusuf Hamied Theatre on Wednesday 30th October at 5:30pm.Klenerman
A major advance in the physical sciences in the last two decades has been the development of quantitative methods to directly observe individual molecules in solution, attached to surfaces, in the membrane of live cells or more recently inside live cells. These single molecule fluorescence studies have now reached a stage where they can provide new insights into important biological and biomedical problems. After presenting the principles of these methods, he will give some examples from current research. He has used single molecule fluorescence to detect and characterise the low concentrations of soluble protein aggregates that play a key role in the initiation and spreading of Alzheimer’s disease. This provides new insights into how these aggregates damage neurons. He will then describe how fundamental science aimed at watching single molecules incorporating nucleotides into DNA gave rise to a new rapid method to sequence DNA that is now widely used
Professor Larry Samuelson (A. Douglas Melamed Professor of Economics, Yale and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Christ'sLarry Samuelson until the end of the academic year 2018-19), will be giving a Lady Margaret Lecture 'Reasoning about Reasoning: Modelling the Information-Based Economy' in the Yusuf Hamied Theatre on Wednesday 24th April 2019.
Economics was traditionally concerned with the production, distribution and consumption of things. In contrast, information now plays a central role in shaping economic activity. This talk examines how economists reason about the role of information in our economy. The talk will provide the requisite background, illustrating the subtleties and difficulties that arise in reasoning about reasoning, and describe recent work at the research frontier
Professor Naomi Lamoreaux, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics & History at Yale University and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Christ's for the academic year 2018-19, will be giving a Lady Margaret Lecture "Getting the American Model Right: State Constitutional Revision and the Achievement of General Laws in the Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S" in the Yusuf Hamied Theatre at 5:30pm on Wednesday 30th January 2019.
Rt Hon Peter Riddell CBE: How governing has become harder: The increasing external, and self-imposed constraints on governments.
Lady Margaret Lecture delivered on 5/3/2014 on oil paintings held in private collections.