Evening events, Talks & lectures, Science

Matthew Dalziel and Louise Scullion, proprietors of the Dundee-based art studio Dalziel + Scullion, talk about creativity's role in challenging, reflecting and shaping the future. They focus on the interplay between human activity and nature's complexities and the possibility for a more meaningful kinship with the…

A symposium exploring the history of organ transplantation.

From a cup of instant coffee to a brew made from beans that have passed through the bowels of a civet, the flavour of coffee is all about chemicals. Find out how the chemicals in your coffee are key to its aroma and taste, with demonstrations from scientists from the University of Glasgow.

Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the death of poet, artist and naturalist Alexander Wilson.

Leonardo is celebrated as both an inspired artist and anatomist. This special event considers how contemporary artists, performers and scientists are informed by each other’s work in their exploration of the human body. Part of the Clod Ensemble’s Performing Medicine programme in collaboration with Wellcome Trust.

Pecha kucha session featuring women working in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine across Glasgow.

Big Ideas presents big questions, then lets an expert have a stab at answering it before turning it to the audience for discussion. Brief, informal and relaxed, the pub-based event is open to anyone and everyone.

An evening of stand-up comedy and science, with Simon Watt, Bright Club, Helen Arney and some of Glasgow's funniest academics.

Explore the latest ideas in science and technology, outside a traditional academic context, at this forum for debating and promoting public engagement.

Dr David Hetherington looks at the two feline species native to Scotland: the Scottish wildcat and the Eurasian lynx. The lynx is extinct, but the wildcat hangs on – although only with help from conservationists like Hetherington, who set up the Cairngorms Wildcat Project.

Although he went to Antarctica as an on-base medical doctor, Gavin Francis ended up spending a lot of time amongst emperor penguins during his fourteen months on the most icy and isolated of continents. Hear him talk about his life-changing experience amongst the birds.

An annual lecture that looks at the study of Natural Theology in broad terms, with the goal to advance modern theological thought.

Explore the latest ideas in science and technology, outside a traditional academic context, at this forum for debating and promoting public engagement.

Psychiatrist Andrew Powell explores the ways that technology affects relationships. As depression rapidly becomes the greatest burden of illness in developed countries, he examines safeguards for emotional and spiritual well-being. Chaired by Reverend Richard Coles, writer of TV comedy Rev. Speech-to-Text Reported event.

Prof Peter Abrahams gives this Heritage Society Festival Lecture about the original Renaissance man's career as an anatomist and his extremely detailed drawings, which came from the study of 23 corpses that the artist personally dissected. Prof Abrahams discusses how the unique concepts found in these ancient renderings…

Professor of Zoology Edward Burt gives a talk and 3D look at the creatures that live among – and eat – feathers on living birds, as well as the ways in which birds defend themselves. Probably not for the ornithophobic.

For this New Scientist Live talk, author and physicist Paul Davies looks back through evolution to find the causes of cancer and suggests alternative approaches to treatment based on these findings.

Dr Aidan Robson from the University of Glasgow talks about the largest scientific instrument ever built, and the science and significance of last year's discovery of a new particle thought to be the Higgs boson. Age 18+.

Close, Professor of Physics at Oxford University, and Holloway, a former Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, talk science and religion, pitting the God Particle against God. Chaired by Sally Magnusson.

2013 is the centenary of the first appearance in print of the word 'isotope'. Professor David Sanderson talks about the past, present and future of isotopes.

Biologist Simon Watt investigates the science of why we die, in a talk featuring immortal jellyfish and the story of how Charles Darwin came to attend a seance (Darwin's verdict: 'rubbish').

Guest speakers rap on science, skepticism, rationalism and critical thinking.