This autumn we launched our Minerva Lectures, a series of high quality lectures delivered by outside speakers to broaden student horizons and provoke thought and discussion. Speakers are often academics, scientists, experts in various fields. This term we have had a great array of lectures for both the Junior and Senior school pupils. We’re so pleased the Minerva Lectures have received tremendous positive feedback from pupils, parents, and staff at Bromley High School and local state schools. Recent lectures have included:
TOO SENSITIVE FOR SCIENCE? THE VALUE OF EMOTIONS IN SCIENCE
Dr Emily Grossman, Expert in molecular biology and genetics, with a Double First in Natural
Sciences from Queens’ College Cambridge and a PhD in cancer research.
RELIGION & POLITICS INSIDE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons and
Chaplain to the Queen
A RACE AGAINST TIME FOR AFRICA’S ELEPHANTS
Lizzie Daly, Wildlife biologist and presenter on ‘BBC Earth Unplugged’ and ‘Cbeebies
THE ‘LONG’ CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Dr Olly Ayers, Senior Lecturer at the New College of the Humanities
THE 2015 PARIS AGREEMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Kate Dowen, Civil Servant and Assistant Manager at Ofgem
Look out for our upcoming lectures, including:
WHAT IS ENGLISH ABOUT ENGLISH LITERATURE?
Joe Jackson, Director of Teaching at the University of Nottingham. Tuesday 29th January
2019 @ 12:45
DENYING THE HOLOCAUST
Deborah Lipstadt, an American historian, currently the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish
History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Georgia, United States. Thursday 6th
February 2019 @ 4:00 (STC)
THE WOMAN WHO SAVED THE CHILDREN
Clare Mulley, author of three historical biographies, including The Woman Who Saved the
Children, about Eglantyne Jebb, the inspiring founder of Save the Children, which won the
Daily Mail Biographers Club prize. Tuesday 5th March 2019 @ 4.00