2022
The Chief Executives’ Club: 'The Importance of Shared Spaces'
Guest Speaker: Hilary McGrady, Director-General of the National Trust
The Chief Executives' Club at Queen's presents 'The Importance of Shared Spaces: Our Common Need for Nature, Beauty and History' which was given by Hilary McGrady, Director-General of the National Trust.
The R M Jones Lecture, Professor David Armitage, Harvard
1320, 1776 And all That: The Declaration of Arbroath, The Declaration of Independence and the Fate of Document.
This lecture examines the entangled fates of two such documents, the Scots “Declaration of Arbroath” (1320) and the US Declaration of Independence (1776), at a moment between the 700th anniversary of the one and the 250th anniversary of the other.
Polls and Political Communication with Dr Frank Luntz
Leading US political analyst Dr Frank Luntz discusses Polls and Political Communication in this Shaping a Better World series video.
Hosted by Ryan Feeney.
Carbon Farming: A farmer’s perspective of the journey to Net Zero
Hosted in partnership with IGFS and the Irish Farmers Journal. In a lecture entitled ‘Carbon Farming: A farmer’s perspective of the journey towards Net Zero’, Professor Gilliland will lay out the case for an innovative, public private, carbon framework partnership and will suggest what that could look like.
He will address key issues such as delivering positive farmer behavioural change; delivering multiple public goods, including the need for active profitable farmers; a fair carbon price; eliminating double counting while delivering for both the Public and Private Sectors’ need for carbon reduction; how to measure, manage and verify change; and how to incentivise farmers to go beyond Net Zero.
‘Levelling Up, What, Why, How?’
The Chief Executives’ Club Lecture with Andy Haldane
Published in February 2022, the Levelling Up in the United Kingdom white paper sets out a plan of action to spread opportunities more equally across the UK.
In September 2021, RSA Chief Executive Andy Haldane was appointed by the Prime Minister to define and develop the flagship national levelling up strategy – a decade-long moral, social and economic cross-government, cross society programme to spread opportunity and prosperity to all parts of the UK.
Andy explores how the Levelling Up in the United Kingdom white paper’s ambitious vision and 12 national levelling up missions can now be made a reality in towns and cities in every part of the UK by 2030.
'Why Gender Diversity Promotes Prosperity and Peace'
Queen's Business School Annual Mary McAleese Diversity Lecture, in association with The Chief Executives' Club at Queen's, welcomed Professor Deirdre McCloskey for her lecture: “I’ve Done My Part: Why Gender Diversity Promotes Prosperity and Peace”.
Royal Ulster Constabulary George Cross Foundation Lecture 2022
Global Security Challenges: Terrorism and Violent Extremism in an Evolving Security Landscape, lecture and discussion
For this, the second Annual RUC George Cross Foundation Lecture at Queen's, leading international security and counterterrorism expert Ali Soufan addresses the problem of violent extremism in an evolving security landscape, followed by a Q&A chaired by Professor Richard English.
Queen's Annual Politics Lecture 2022
Professor Desmond King, University of Oxford, “America’s Racial Orders after Trump: White Protectionism versus Racial Reparations"
The Queen’s Annual Politics Lecture will be delivered by Professor Desmond King. Professor King is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Irish Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the British Academy.
John Bell Day Lecture 2022
'Coherent effects in biological processes. A new twist for Bell-type arguments'
Quantum physicist Susana Huelga revises recent work aimed at characterizing the origin and nature of the coherent oscillations observed in the spectral response of pigment protein complexes (PPCs), the building blocks in light-induced reactions underpinning the primary effects of processes ranging from photosynthesis to vision.