Queen's Lecture
The Queen's Lectures are a series of lectures at the Technical University of Berlin , which was introduced on the occasion of Queen Elisabeth II's visit to Berlin on May 27, 1965 as a gift from the British to the city of Berlin.
On each anniversary of the visit, a renowned British scientist should give a lecture on his subject. The series was opened on May 26, 1966. One lecture took place annually until 1975, until after the lecture by Michael Swann in 1975 there was an interruption lasting over 20 years.
It was not until 1996, on the 50th anniversary of the re-establishment of the TU Berlin, that the British envoy Rosemary Spencer announced the resumption of the lecture series. A year later, John R. Krebs received the honor of opening the series, which from then on takes place again annually, with a lecture.
For the 50th anniversary of the Queen's Lectures in 2015, Queen Elizabeth II attended the event in person with her husband Prince Philip , Duke of Edinburgh. Other guests of honor at the ceremony with lecture, concert and presentations of student projects were Federal President Joachim Gauck , Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and Berlin's Governing Mayor Michael Müller .
Overview
| Queen's Lectures | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| date | Lecturer | Title of the talk | |||
| November 11, 2019 | Corinne Le Quéré | The interactions between climate change and the carbon cycle and the future we choose | |||
| 5th November 2018 | Susan Jebb | Obesity, health and politics | |||
| November 21, 2017 | Zoubin Ghahramani | Artificial intelligence and machine learning | |||
| November 1, 2016 | Turi King | King Richard III: the resolution of a 500 year old mystery | |||
| June 24, 2015 | Neil MacGregor | Symbols of a Nation | |||
| November 24, 2014 | Dame Wendy Hall | Whose Web is it Anyway? | |||
| 4th November 2013 | Paul Dolan | Happiness by design | |||
| 19th November 2012 | David Phillips | Prosperity through Chemistry | |||
| December 14, 2011 | Mike Brady | Robots are coming to places near you | |||
| December 6, 2010 | Richard J. Parker | Clean sky, green sky | |||
| February 4, 2010 | Martin Evans | Mice, Men and Medicine | |||
| November 20, 2008 | Ian N. Stewart | Do We Need Mathematicians? | |||
| November 29, 2007 | Peter Pearson | Energy Systems In Transition - No Future Without Innovation? | |||
| November 14, 2006 | Lord Rees of Ludlow | 21st Century Science: Cosmic Perspectives and terrestrial challenges | |||
| December 1, 2005 | Mike Hulme | Discovering Climate Change: From Tyndall to Hollywood | |||
| June 23, 2003 | Ian Wilmut | DNA and Dolly | |||
| December 5, 2002 | Howard Newby | The management of change in higher education | |||
| November 8, 2001 | Sir Peter Jonas | Art and music theater - the battleground of tolerance | |||
| December 14, 2000 | Susan A. Greenfield | The brain of the future | |||
| November 4, 1999 | Anthony Giddens | The Third Way and its Critics | |||
| November 27, 1998 | Richard Rogers | Cities of tomorrow | |||
| December 1, 1997 | John R. Krebs | Science and Sustainability | |||
| May 29, 1975 | Michael Swann | Freedom and Limits in Broadcasting - the English Experience | |||
| June 13, 1974 | Peter Hall | Signs of the past and present - In search of the meaning of theater | |||
| May 23, 1973 | Brian Flowers | Science and Europe | |||
| May 24, 1972 | Anthony Blunt | The royal collectors of Europe | |||
| October 29, 1971 | Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson | The rich and the poor nations | |||
| May 27, 1970 | Bernard Lovell | Man's understanding of the universe | |||
| May 27, 1969 | Kenneth M. Clark | Sign - symbol - symbolic image | |||
| May 27, 1968 | Sir Mortimer Wheeler | The future of the past. An archaeologist looks forward | |||
| May 22, 1967 | Eric Ashby | The Future of the University Idea of the 19th Century in Britain and Germany | |||
| May 26, 1966 | Denys Wilkinson | European cooperation in the scientific field | |||
Individual evidence
- ↑ Queen's Lectures (TU Berlin)
- ↑ Special edition of the university newspaper "TU intern" on Queen's visit to the TU Berlin (pdf)
- ↑ Communication, Events and Alumni: 2019: Corinne Le Quéré. In: pressstelle.tu-berlin.de. November 12, 2019, accessed November 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Press, Public Relations and Alumni: Media Information No. 205/2018. In: pressstelle.tu-berlin.de. October 12, 2018, accessed November 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Press, Public Relations and Alumni: 2017: Zoubin Ghahramani. In: pressstelle.tu-berlin.de. November 21, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Press, Public Relations and Alumni: 2016: Turi King. In: pressstelle.tu-berlin.de. November 1, 2016, accessed November 28, 2018 .