William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College


2011-10-12 17:00: 'The Eternal Return of National Mystifications: the Voynich Manuscript, the Book of Vles and the Igor Tale' (Professor George Grabowicz, Harvard University)

2012-02-01 17:00: Are we on the road to real equality? (Ms Virginija Langbakk, Director, European Institute for Gender Equality)

2012-03-09 17:00: 'Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams', A Public Lecture by Charles King (Professor Charles King, Georgetown University)

2012-10-11 17:00: Gender, Security and Inter-generational Conflict in Muslim Societies Post 9/11 (Professor Akbar Ahmed, American University, Washington DC)

2014-11-03 13:00: From the Pill to the Pen: an autobiography by Professor Carl Djerassi (Professor Carl Djerassi, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, Inventor of the Contraceptive Pill, Playwright)

2014-11-03 17:00: Feminism and the Abomination of Violence (Professor Jacqueline Rose, the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor)

2014-11-21 17:30: Diplomacy and the Arab Spring: A Franco-British Perspective on the Libyan Crisis (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-01-16 17:00: Jewish Memory in Contemporary Poland (Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Program Director at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw and Roma Sendyka, Jagiellonian University, Krakow)

2017-12-14 10:00: Multiculturalism in Poland-Lithuania, 1569-1795 (Featuring Norman Davies, Karin Friedrich, Robert Frost, Olenka Pevny, Richard Butterlick-Pawlikowski, and others.)

2018-02-01 17:30: Before Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: Medieval Rus and a World of Diversity (Prof Valerie Kivelson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor co-author of  Russia’s Empires (2017))

2018-02-09 09:15: Polish Britain: Multilingualism and Diaspora Community (Please see abstract)