Serendipity – Darwin College Lecture Series 2008: Recent Episodes
Cambridge University
In the second term of every academic year since 1986 Darwin College has organised a series of eight public lectures. Each series has been built around a single theme, approached in a multi-disciplinary way, and with each lecture prepared for a general audience by a leading authority on his or her subject.
Darwin College Lecture Series 2008 "Understanding Humans - Serendipity and Anthropology" by Richard Leakey (Stony Brook)
Darwin College Lecture Series 2008 "Serendipity as a Force in Physics" by Richard Friend (Cambridge)
Darwin College Lecture Series 2008 "The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing Life" by Simon Winchester
Darwin College Lecture Series 2008 "The Stratigraphy of Serendipity" by Susan Alcock (Brown)
Darwin College Lecture Series 2008. "Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy" by Andy Fabian (Cambridge).