Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College Lectures
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The Sky at Night, Tonight: A New View of the Changing Sky - Chris Lintott
On a remote mountain top in Chile, scanning the sky with the largest astronomical camera ever built, the Vera Rubin Observatory is conducting the deepest and most sensitive survey of the sky yet. This lecture covers whatever it’s found in the p...
Cello - In Search of a Voice - Kate Kennedy
How do we tell stories of past voices through a cello, the voice of its player? This lecture explores what it means to be separated from your voice, and to find it again.Dr Kate Kennedy traces a journey she took across Europe ...
Why Do We Need Empathy? - Jane Shaw
This lecture was recorded by Jane Shaw on Monday, 07 Sep 2026.Professor Jane Shaw is Provost of Gresham College and Professor of the History of Religion at the University of Oxford.Professor Shaw was formerly Principal of Harris...
On the Nature of Time According to Modern Physics - Jim Al-Khalili
This is the Annual Sir Thomas Gresham Lecture. What does modern physics have to say about the meaning of time? Is it a fundamental feature of reality or merely an emergent property from something deeper? Does time flow, and is the present momen...