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London Lecture Series

The Institute's Royal status was granted in 1947, it is said in recognition of the fact that its public lectures carried on through the wartime blitz.  The lectures are still underway, almost every Friday evening during term.  This year’s series is on the Environment. 

NB:  Changing Venues:  We are bouncing around a little this year, with most of our lectures held in the Archaeology Lecture Theatre and a few in the J Z Young Lecture Theatre.  The locations are indicated on the list below, and here are some maps.

Map:  Institute of Archaeology Lecture Theatre, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, WC1

Map:  J Z Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, Gower Street, London WC1

Time:  All lectures start at 5.45 pm.  The talks usually last for an hour and are followed by about 45 minutes of questions and, hopefully, answers.

All lectures are free and open to the public.  No tickets are available, and no reservations are taken, so you are adivsed to arrive early to be sure of a seat.

The London Lecture Series 2009 - 2010

The Environment

Dates, Locations, Speakers, and Talks:

October 16^th – Holmes Rolston III: The Future of Environmental Ethics, Archaeology Lecture Theatre

October 23^rd – Robin Attfield: Beyond Anthropocentrism, Archaeology Lecture Theatre

 October 30^th – Warwick Fox: Towards a General Ethics – Human Relationships, Nature and the Built Environment, Archaeology Lecture Theatre

November 6^th – Brian Garvey: Darwinism and Environmentalism, Archaeology Lecture Theatre

November 13^th – Emily Brady: Ugliness and Nature, J Z Young Lecture Theatre

November 20^th – Baird Callicott: The Temporal and Spatial Scales of Climate Change and the Limits of Ethics, Archaeology Lecture Theatre

November 27^th – Chukwumerije Okereke: Global Justice and Global Environment Justice, Archaeology Lecture Theatre

December 4^th – Allen Carlson: The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature and Environmentalism, Archaeology Lecture Theatre

January 22^nd – James Garvey: Why Go Green When It Doesn’t Matter What You Do?, Archaeology Lecture Theatre

January 29^th – David Wiggins:  Philosophy and the Environment, J Z Young Lecture Theatre

February 5^th – Dieter Helm: Sustainable Consumption, Climate Change and Future Generations: the Implications for Environmental Policy, Archaeology Lecture Theatre

February 12^th – Cameron Hepburn, Carbon Trading:  Unethical, Ineffective and Unjust?, Archaeology Lecture Theatre

February 19^th – Eric Swyngedouw: Climate Change as Post-Political and Post-Democratic Populism, J Z Young Lecture Theatre

February 26^th - John Adams:  Managing the Environment in a Hypermobile World, Archaeology Lecture Theatre

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