Inaugural Lectures
Every year we celebrate our newly appointed professors by holding inaugural lectures. This gives our professors the opportunity present to their colleagues, friends and families about their work to date, current research and future plans.
Below is a catalogue of our recent lectures for you to enjoy.
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Date |
Name |
Lecture Title |
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| 25 March 2026 | Professor James Griffin | Intelligence Beyond the Classical Machine: Copyright at the Frontier of Biological and Quantum Computing |
| 11 March 2026 | Professor Jana Funke | “But We Were Not Alone”: Queer Feminism, Friendship, and Collaboration" |
| 25 February 2026 | Professor Richard Flower | ‘The Twelve Days of Christianisation: A Journey through Late Antiquity’ |
| 4 February 2026 | Professor Levi Roach | |
| 28 January 2026 | Professor Mihail Danov | “Access to Justice in Cross-Border Private and/or Competition Law Disputes” |
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Date |
Name |
Lecture Title |
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| 3 December 2025 | Professor Lisa Storm | ‘Party time! The neglected actors of the Global South’ (in-person only lecture) |
| 12 November 2025 | Professor Salah Troudi | |
| 5 November 2025 | Professor Alex Prichard | |
| 15 October 2025 | Professor Sinead Moynihan | “For Export Only”: Irish Writers and U.S. Magazines, 1940-1975 (in-person only lecture) |
| 2 June 2025 | Professor Stacey Hynd | Children of War: Telling the Stories of Africa’s Child Soldiers and Learning from their Histories |
| 28 May 2025 | Professor Andy Brown | |
| 21 May 2025 | Professor Fiona Cox | |
| 14 May 2025 | Professor David Thackeray | Writing Histories of Settler Democracy in an Age of Crisis |
| 12 March 2025 | Professor Anna Mountford-Zimdar | |
| 17 February 2025 |
Professor Daisy Hay |
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Name |
Lecture Title |
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December 2024 |
Professor Philip Durrant |
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26 November 2024 |
Professor Amina Yaqin |
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5 June 2024 |
Professor Catriona Pennell |
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29 May 2024 |
Professor Katherine Tyler |
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22 May 2024 |
Professor Catriona McKinnon |
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20 May 2024 |
Professor Danielle Hipkins |
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20 May 2024 |
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13 May 2024 |
Professor Sajjad Rizvi |
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24 April 2024 |
Professor Dora Vargha |
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26 February 2024 |
Professor Robert Lamb |
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12 February 2024 |
Professor Susannah Cornwall |
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31 January 2024 |
Professor David Lewis |
| Date | Professor | Lecture Title |
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| 11 December 2023 | Professor Ana Beduschi | |
| 27 November 2023 | Professor Corinna Wagner | |
| 15 November 202 | Professor Martin Pitts | |
| 1 November 2023 | Professor Nandini Chatterjee | |
| 24 October 2023 | Professor John Heathershaw | |
| 4 October 2023 | Professor Muireann Maguire |