The Gates Distinguished Lecture Series is an ongoing series of talks organised by the Gates Scholars’ Society.
The aim of the series is to provide a varied and engaging array of talks in order to spark interest and interdisciplinary discussion throughout the Cambridge community.
All are welcome and encouraged to attend.
For more information on the Gates Scholars’ Society, visit: http://gatesscholar.org/life/scholars-council.asp
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👤 Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC
📅 Wednesday 04 May 2011, 18:30-20:00
📍 Queens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College
👤 Sir Richard Dearlove
📅 Wednesday 27 April 2011, 18:30-20:00
📍 Queens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College
👤 David McCandless
📅 Tuesday 08 March 2011, 18:30-20:00
📍 Sir Humphrey Cripps Auditorium - Magdalene College
👤 Professor Chris Lowe
📅 Tuesday 01 March 2011, 18:30-20:00
📍 Lecture Theatre 2, Engineering Department
👤 Margareta Wahlstrom, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator
📅 Wednesday 16 February 2011, 18:30-20:00
📍 Queens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College
👤 Denis Oswald, Chairman of the IOC's London 2012 Olympic Commission
📅 Friday 19 November 2010, 18:30-20:00
📍 Judge Business School, LT2
👤 Anthony Lane, Film Critic, The New Yorker magazine
📅 Wednesday 10 November 2010, 18:30-20:00
📍 Bateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College
👤 Niklas Zennström, Co-founder of Skype
📅 Tuesday 19 October 2010, 18:00-19:30
📍 Cambridge Union Society Debating Chamber
👤 Admiral James Stavridis, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR) / Commander, US European Command
📅 Monday 31 May 2010, 18:30-20:00
📍 TBC
👤 Professor Paul Collier, Fmr Director of Development Research at the World Bank and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford
📅 Tuesday 11 May 2010, 18:30-20:00
📍 Queens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College
👤 Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, Director of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh
📅 Tuesday 04 May 2010, 18:00-19:30
📍 Cambridge Union Society
👤 Dr. Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature and Nature Publications
📅 Wednesday 28 April 2010, 18:30-20:00
📍 Queens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College
👤 Joe Rospars, New Media Director for Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign
📅 Monday 08 March 2010, 18:30-20:00
📍 Cambridge Union Society Debating Chamber
👤 Professor Joshua Silver
📅 Wednesday 03 February 2010, 18:30-19:30
📍 Cambridge Union Society Debating Chamber
👤 Rupert Isaacson
📅 Thursday 14 January 2010, 18:30-19:30
📍 Gates Scholars Common Room, University Centre on Mill Lane
👤 Mark Brenner, MD, Chief of Radiation Oncology, Cyberknife Center
📅 Tuesday 01 December 2009, 18:00-19:00
📍 Mill Lane Lecture Theatre 9
👤 Nicholas Chrimes
📅 Monday 23 November 2009, 18:30-19:30
📍 Gates Room, University Centre
👤 Four young Europeans and Americans engaged in politics; see website for more info
📅 Saturday 21 November 2009, 17:00-18:30
📍 Online webinar; see website to register.
👤 Various student speakers; see website for more information
📅 Sunday 08 November 2009, 16:30-18:30
📍 Location and time TBA
👤 Cameron Barbour
📅 Tuesday 20 October 2009, 18:30-19:30
📍 Gates Scholars Common Room, University Centre
👤 Richard Mullender, Former member of the Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Unit, Scotland Yard
📅 Tuesday 13 October 2009, 17:30-18:30
📍 Lecture Theatre 9, Mill Lane
👤 Sir Richard Dearlove, Master of Pembroke College and former Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service
📅 Wednesday 29 April 2009, 18:00-20:00
📍 Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building at St. John's College
👤 Dr. James P. Nataro, University of Maryland.
📅 Monday 02 March 2009, 18:00-19:15
📍 Riley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Clare College
⚠️ Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/GatesInternalSeminar.mp3
👤 Joshua R. Cook, Will Smiley, Oleksandr Poplavskyy, Joseph C. Bonneau, University of Cambridge
📅 Sunday 01 March 2009, 16:00-18:00
📍 Gates Common Room, Cambridge
⚠️ Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/ViceChancellorRichards.mp3
👤 Professor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
📅 Tuesday 17 February 2009, 17:00-19:00
📍 Hicks Room, University Centre
⚠️ Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/RabbiWeinreb.mp3
👤 Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, the executive vice president of the Orthodox
📅 Monday 02 February 2009, 19:00-20:00
📍 Union Debating Chamber at 9a Bridge Street
⚠️ Wine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm. Everyone is welcome.
👤 Professor Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University
📅 Thursday 05 June 2008, 17:30-19:00
📍 Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St. John's College http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/cms_misc/media/large_images/drawn_map.gif
⚠️ This talk is open to everyone. Wine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm before the talk.
👤 Robyn Scott, Author of "Twenty Chickens for a Saddle"
📅 Wednesday 07 May 2008, 17:30-19:00
📍 Gates Scholars Common Room, University Centre on Mill Lane
👤 Professor Peter Nolan, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management and Chair of the University of Cambridge's Development Studies Committee, Director of the Chinese Big Business Programme (CBBP) at the Judge Business School
📅 Wednesday 12 March 2008, 18:30-20:00
📍 Gates Scholars' Common Room, University Centre
⚠️ Wine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm before the lecture at 6 pm. This talk is open to the general public.
👤 Professor Martin Jones, George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science at Cambridge University
📅 Tuesday 19 February 2008, 17:30-19:00
📍 OCR, Trinity College
⚠️ There will be a wine reception at 5:30 pm before the lecture begins at 6 pm.
👤 PROFESSOR JORGE CANIZARES-ESGUERRA (Department of History, University of Texas at Austin—Author of ‘How to Write the History of the New World: History, Epistemology, and Identities in the 18th C. Atlantic World’)
📅 Tuesday 11 December 2007, 17:30-19:00
📍 The Old Library, Emmanuel College
⚠️ There will be a wine reception at 5:30 pm before the lecture begins at 6 pm.
👤 PROFESSOR BARBARA SAHAKIAN, FMEDSCI (Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University)
📅 Tuesday 27 November 2007, 17:30-19:00
📍 Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College
⚠️ A wine reception will follow the talk. Offered in collaboration with The City Seminar at CRASSH.
👤 Mr. Anthony Tung, author of 'Preserving the World's Great Cities: the Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis'
📅 Tuesday 30 October 2007, 17:30-19:00
📍 Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College
👤 Professor Bjorn Lomborg, Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and Author of 'The Skeptical Environmentalist’, ‘How to Spend $50B to Make the World a Better Place’, and ‘Cool It’
📅 Wednesday 03 October 2007, 15:00-16:30
📍 Gates Scholars' Combination Room, University Centre
👤 Dr William Burgwinkle, Reader in Medieval French and Occitan Literature, Fellow of King's College
📅 Wednesday 07 March 2007, 18:00-19:00
📍 Sir Humphrey Cripps Auditorium - Magdalene College
👤 Dr Philip Evans, senior Vice President, Boston Consulting Group. Boston, USA
📅 Wednesday 21 February 2007, 18:00-19:00
📍 OCR, Trinity College
👤 Sir Christopher Hum, KCMG, Master of Gonville and Caius College
📅 Wednesday 07 February 2007, 18:00-19:00
📍 Benson Hall, Magdalene College
⚠️ To reserve a place email GatesHawking@gmail.com
👤 Professor Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College
📅 Wednesday 24 January 2007, 18:00-19:00
📍 The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law
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Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC.
Wednesday 04 May 2011, 18:30-20:00
