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Inaugural Lecture Series

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Inaugural Lectures

UCL Arts & Humanities and Social & Historical Sciences

Promoting Research Excellence

Lectures will be followed by a reception.
Inaugural lectures are an opportunity for UCL professors to exhibit to the wider UCL community, and the public outside UCL, a flavour of their intellectual activity and research. For professors appointed from outside UCL, an inaugural lecture is an opportunity for colleagues to welcome them to UCL. For newly promoted professors they are an opportunity for colleagues to recognise and celebrate the achievements that have led to their promotion.


Joint Faculty Inaugural Lectures

Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, UCL, 6.30pm

Professor Wendy Bracewell
 SSEES
 Travel accounts and travel polemics in 18th-century Europe 13 November 2012
Professor Peter John
 Political Science
 Experimentation, Behaviour Change and Public Policy 20 November 2012
Professor Hans van Wees
 History
 Luxury, austerity and equality in ancient Greece 27 November 2012
Professor Lisa Jardine
 Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities
 Temptation in the archives 15 January 2013
Professor Jon French
   * CANCELLED *
  * CANCELLED *
 22 January 2013
Professor David Wengrow
 Archaeology
 An Archaeology of Political Life, from the Bronze Age to the Kurdish Spring 29 January 2013 
Professor Liz Graham
 		Archaeology
 Between the Devil and the Deep Sea—The Maya of Colonial Belize 5 February 2013
Dr Peter Swaab
 		English
 Edward Lear’s Travels in Nonsense and Europe 19 February 2013
Professor Kevin MacDonald
 Archaeology
 Re-Mapping West Africa’s Ancient Empires 26 February 2013
Professor Jan Eeckhout
 		Economics
 Spatial Sorting: Big Cities, Big Inequality 5 March 2013
Professor Ian Freestone
 		Archaeology
 New Light on Medieval Stained Glass 12 March 2013
Professor Morten Ravn
 		* CANCELLED *
 * CANCELLED *
 23 April 2013
Professor Iwan Morgan Institute of the Americas The US Deficit Habit: What are its causes and what lessons does history offer for breaking it? 30 April 2013
Professor Neil Mitchell
 		Political Science
Delegation, accountability and democracy: The case of human rights violations 7 May 2013
Professor Maxine Molyneux
 		* CANCELLED * * CANCELLED * 14 May 2013