How song shapes society, and society shapes song | Richard Morrison

Palestinian Song in Transition | Dr Issa Boulos

Songs of the Stars: Unravelling Stellar Music with Asteroseismology | Professor Conny Aerts

Hearing Her Voice: Women musicians in Vienna 1900 | Carola Darwin

Song in the Ancient World: Echoes of Religion and Resistance | Matthew Gordley

Songs We Grow By | Ibrahim Baltagi

Throat Singing: Body, Spirit, Pathways, Place | Carole Pegg

Notes and Noises in Nature: Not a Swan Song? | Hans Slabbekoorn

Song 2026 - Lecture Series Poster

Decoding Our Humanity - Professor Shannon Vallor

Polari - a Very Queer Code - Professor Paul Baker

Wayfinding through the Human Genome - Dr Keolu Fox

Eve's Byte of the Apple - Sandi Toksvig

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code? - Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith

Using Maths to Decode the Universe - Dr Tom Crawford

The Power of Music: A Journey Back to Home - Maya Youssef

Bits with Soul - Professor Simon Peyton Jones

The Cultural Revolution - Tania Branigan

Revolution by Natural Selection - Professor Nick Lane, University College London

Worlds turned upside down: Quiet Revolutions in Art - Professor Frances Spalding

The Exoplanet Revolution - Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge

A Revolution in Thought? - Dr Iain McGilchrist

Are Revolutions justified? - Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics

The Genetic Revolutions - Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester

On the Disappointment of Revolutions - Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University

Darwin College Lecture Series 2024 - Introduction

Isolation of Atomic Mechanisms: the Choreographer at Play - Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea - Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge

Are we alone in the Universe? - Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers - Professor Philip Jones, University College London

Antarctica: Isolated Continent - Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey

The Closeting of Secrets – Physics and Cryptography - Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia. Dr Amy Nethery

Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls - Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge

X-Rays and Food Safety - Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge

Food as Expression - Alex Rushmer, Chef

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past - Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge

Food and Cultural History - Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge

Food, Power & Society - Ms Sarah Mukherjee, CEO Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment

Food and Climate Change - Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security - Prof Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan? - Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester

Colour and Vision by Anya Hurlbert

Blood Sculptures, by Marc Quinn

Cold Blood, by Stuart Egginton

Blood villains and heroes by Rose George

Bloodlines of the British by Walter Bodmer

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman by Carol Senf

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow by Tim Pedley

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England by Sara Read

Battle Blood by Claire Roddie

Risk and (human-induced) climate change, by Bob Watson

Risk and government: the architectonics of blame-avoidance, by Christopher Hood

Risk and humanities, by Mary Beard

Risk and natural catastrophes, by Mark Bailey

Risk and the Brain: The neural basis of decision making under uncertainty, by John O'Doherty

Risk, security and terrorism, by Lucia Zedner

Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertainty, by David Spiegelhalter

Life in ruins by Robert Macfarlane

The spark of life, by Frances Ashcroft