Brain Reconstruction - Professor Jack Price

Is brain reconstruction going to be the next biomedical breakthrough, or is it just a biological impossibility? Professor Jack Price details the latest advances in this field of neuroscience, as well as covering the conceptual and regulatory obstacles that researchers face.

The New Normal: Rebalancing Our Priorities - Professor Ken Costa

It is time for the banking and financial sectors to stop apologising and start changing. But how? Professor Costs outlines three key themes for change needed in order to estable a "New Normal" for how we operate in the commerical and financial world: a re-ordering of our priorities, the respect the ethical, and the creation of a better spirit in which to carry out business.

The Roman Denarius and the Euro: A precedent for monetary union? - Dr Andrew Burnett

A look at the way the Roman Empire has sometimes been used as an historical precedent for the European Union, and specifically the way that the integration of the Roman monetary system has been seen as a (sometimes justifying) precedent for modern European monetary union.

Is there a God-shaped hole in contemporary art? - Dr Jonathan Koestlé-Cate

Should contemporary church commissions meet criteria of accessibility, aesthetic quality and clear Christian symbolism? Should non-believers be commissioned to produce Christian art?

The 'Desublimation' of Modern Art: A Theological Task? - Professor Ben Quash

What is the place of 'the sublime' in modern art and popular culture? What challenge does this leave for contemporary Christian art?

Gresham's Law in Economics: Background to the Crisis - Professor Victoria Chick

Gresham's Law states that "Bad money drives out good", but in economics it seems that bad theory has driven out good. Is this behind the economic depression in which we are now caught?

Philanthropy Then, Philanthropy Now - Julia Unwin, Chief Executive, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

This lecture outlines the challenges of modern-day society and how they affect a charity's ability to deliver its purpose, and discusses how a 'Good Society' could be built through the individual, community, market and state.