Professorial Inaugural Lectures

Monday 6 February 2023, 6.15pm, in the Essex Business School

Professorial Inaugural Lectures - Department of Government

Professor Reed Wood, Department of Government: 'Gender Stereotypes, Female Fighters, and Audience Attitudes toward Violent Armed Groups'.

Professor Paul Bou-Habib, Department of Government: 'Celebrating Evil'.

Professor Gina Yannitell Reinhardt, Department of Government: 'Social Science, Data, and You: How do we use social science and data analysis to create policy and public services?' 

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Wednesday 15 February 2023, 6.15pm, in STEM 3.1

Professorial Inaugural Lectures – Department of Sociology

Professor Renee Luthra, Department of Sociology: 'From Origins to Destinations: Understanding the Lives of Immigrants and their Children'.

Professor Sandya Hewamanne, Department of Sociology: 'Transnationalism, Neoliberalism and Fluid Identities'. 

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Wednesday 22 February 2023, 6.15pm, in the Essex Business School

Professorial Inaugural Lectures – Institute for Social and Economic Research and Department of Sociology

Professor Birgitta Rabe, Institute for Social and Economic Research: 'Childhood inequality'.

Professor Róisín Ryan-Flood, Department of Sociology: 'Intimate Citizenship in the Twenty First Century'.

Professor Anna Sergi, Department of Sociology: 'Chasing the mafia: how to research a myth'.

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Wednesday 15 March 2023, 6.30pm, in the Essex Business School

Professorial Inaugural Lectures - School of Life Sciences

Professor Terry McGenity, School of Life Sciences: 'Limits to Microbial Life: Slow, Salty, Subterranean Survival'.

Professor Vassiliy Bavro, School of Life Sciences: 'Using structural studies of the bacterial cell envelope to overcome antibiotic resistance and make better vaccines'.

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Wednesday 26 April 2023, 6.15pm in the Essex Business School

Professorial Inaugural Lectures - Essex Law School

Professor Onyeka Osuji: Law, Business and Governance: The Conundrum of the 'Rules of the Game'.  

Professor Matthew Stone: Why are we obligated towards each other? Law, power, and the modern juridical conscience.

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Wednesday 10 May 2023, 6.15pm, in the Essex Business School

Professorial Inaugural Lectures - Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Professor Ilaria Boncori, Essex Pathways: 'A journey towards researching and writing differently'.

Professor Diana Bullen Presciutti, School of Philosophy and Art History: 'Picturing Social Problems in Renaissance Italy'.

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Wednesday 17 May 2023, 6.15pm, in the Essex Business School

Professorial Inaugural Lectures - Faculty of Science and Health

Professor Martin Reed, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering: 'Zoom, Zoom, Zoom: talking over the Internet, how well does it work and is it secure?'

Professor Spyridon Vrontos,  Department of Mathematical Sciences: 'Artificial Intelligence in the Insurance and Finance Industries'.

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Reading the Environment, Then and Now

Professor Susan Oliver, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, gave her Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 2 March 2020

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Existential Flourishing

Professor Irene McMullin, School of Philosophy and Art History, gave her Professional Inaugural Lecture on Monday 17 February 2020

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The Ethics of Competition

Professor Timo Jütten, School of Philosophy and Art History, gave his Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 10 February 2020

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Mothers, #MeToo, and Memory: Women's Reflections on the Past, Present and Future

Professor Tracey Loughran, Department of History, gave her Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 20 January 2020

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Unemployment and Inequality

Professor Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Department of Economics, gave his Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 18 November 2019

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The EUropean rule of law and its limits

Professor Theodore Konstadinides, School of Law, gave his Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 3 June 2019

How can creativity flourish under constraints?

Professor Shohini Chaudhuri, Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, gave her Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Tuesday 28 May 2019

What's wrong with public opinion?

Professor John Bartle, Department of Government gave his Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 11 June 2018.

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Of brains and pulses: conversations with the nervous system

Professor Francisco Sepulveda, School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering his Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Tuesday 29 May 2018. 

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Populism, Dictatorship and Trump

Professor Natasha Ezrow, Department of Government gave her Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 14 May 2018. 

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The future of reparations for victims of mass atrocities

Professor Clara Sandoval-Villalba, School of Law gave her Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 30 April 2018. 

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Linguistic Diversity: What does sub-Saharan Africa have to contribute?

Professor Nancy Kula, Department of Language and Linguistics gave her Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 12 February 2018.

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‘Last chance to see’: The evolution of the mental health ‘nurse’?

Professor Peter Martin, School of Health and Social Care gave his Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 22 January 2018.

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Imitation in Economic Decisions: A good idea?

Professor Simon Weidenholzer from the Department of Economics gave his Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 4 December 2017.

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Security on our shores: A closer look at the migration crisis

Professor Tobias Böhmelt from the Department of Government gave his Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 4 December 2017.

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Hunting ‘witches’ in early modern Europe

Professor Alison Rowlands, Department of History gave her Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 22 May.

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Is there more to search than web search?

Professor Udo Kruschwitz, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering gave his Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 24 April.

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Are some children better protected than others?

Professor Jackie Turton of the Department of Sociology gave her Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 24 April.

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Passion in Education, Passion in Research

Professor Anthony Vickers from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering gave his Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 20 March.

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How speedy stomata aid plant performance

Professor Tracy Lawson from the School of Biological Sciences gave her Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 6 March.

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Good oral health for all, for life. Is this possible?

Professor Phillip Cannell from the School of Health and Human Sciences gave his Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Thursday 2 March.

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A Tale of Two Referendums

Professor Rob Johns from the Department of Government gave his Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Monday 27 February.

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It’s not what you said, it’s how you said it!

Professor Silke Paulmann from the Department of Psychology gave her Professorial Inaugural Lecture on 6 February.

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Opinion dynamics in social networks

Professor Friederike Mengel, Department of Economics gave her Professorial Inaugural Lecture on 23 January.

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Evaluating predictive policing in the fight against crime

Professor Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Department of Economics gave his Professorial Inaugural Lecture on 5 December.

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The Limits of Human Performance: Sensation, Perception and Athletic Decision-Making

Professor Dominic Micklewright, Centre for Sports and Exercise Science (School of Biological Sciences).

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Closing gaps to justice for victims of torture and other crimes under international law

This lecture, held on 16 May was presented by Professor Lorna McGregor from our School of Law.

Social pathology

This lecture, held on 16 May was presented by Fabian Freyenhagen from our School of Philosophy and Art History.

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Kodachrome Travels: how colour changed the way we see the world

This lecture, held on 7 March was presented by Professor Jeffrey Geiger from our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies.

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Inequality and mortality

Professor David Pevalin from the School of Health and Human Sciences gave his Professorial Inaugural Lecture on 29 February.

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How your brain creates your reality

Professor Paul Hibbard from the Department of Psychology gave his Professorial Inaugural Lecture on 29 February.

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Should the UK leave the EU?

Professor Gianluigi Vernasca from the Department of Economics gave his Professorial Inaugural Lecture on 1 February.

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• Professor Edward Codling, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science:
  The Maths of Cows (and other animals).
• Professor Sanja Bahun, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies:
  Home: Notes on Literature.
• Professor Matthias Röhrig Assunção, Department of History: 
  The Angolan Roots of Capoeira: Transatlantic Links of a Globalized Performing Art
• Professor Abdellah Salhi, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science:
  Algorithms from Nature for Practical Optimisation.
• Professor Theodora-Ismene Gizelis, Department of Government:
  Involving the Other Half: Peacebuilding Operations and Women’s Organisations.
• Professor Pamela Cox, Department of Sociology:
  Translating History for Television.

• Professor Peter Fussey, Department of Sociology:
  Surveillance, Security and the City.
• Professor Nick Allum, Department of Sociology:
  What People know about Science and why it matters.
• Professor Philip Terry, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies:
  Reflections on tapestry.
• Professor Matthew Woollard, UK Data Archive:
  A Journey through Data.
• Professor Karen Hulme, School of Law:
  Nature in War.
• Professor Sean Nixon, Department of Sociology:
  Trading on Human Weakness: Advertising and its Critics in the 1950s and 1960s..
• Professor Noam Lubell, School of Law:
  Robot Warriors, Terrorists and Private Contractors: What future for the Laws of War?.
• Professor Andrew Canessa, Department of Sociology:
  Being Indigenous in the Twenty-first Century: A Bolivian Case Study.