Past Events

We host a number of events every year - including the Seminar Series and the regular Glasgow's Healthier Future Forum. 

Using this section of the website you can register for a forthcoming event or view and listen to a past event and download related content, including slides and event summaries.

Use the menu on the left of this page as well as the filters to find information on the event(s) that you are interested in.

You can also access all our video and audio content on the edShare teaching and learning repository.

Past Seminar series events:

  • 10 March 2008

    Seminar Series 4 Lecture 3 - Prof James C Scott

    Location: Merchants House, Glasgow

    'Seeing Like a State: why certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed'

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  • 29 January 2008

    Seminar Series 4 Lecture 2 - Prof Geoffrey Boulton

    Location: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow

    'Learning to live with an angry planet: human relations with the Earth in the past and future'

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  • 11 December 2007

    Seminar Series 4 Lecture 1 - Prof Bruce Link

    Location: Trades Hall, Glasgow

    'Health patterns and trends in New York: exploring the idea of fundamental social causes of health status'.

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  • 25 April 2007

    Seminar Series 3 Lecture 7 - Aftab Omer

    Location: Glasgow

    'Principles and Practices for Engaging the Other'

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  • 03 April 2007

    Seminar Series 3 Lecture 6 - Rajiv Kumar

    Location: Glasgow

    'Towards Ethical Economics: An Initial Exploration'

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  • 13 March 2007

    Seminar Series 3 Lecture 5 - Dr Jeffrey Wigand PhD

    Location: Glasgow

    'Exposing deceit and wrongdoing in the US tobacco industry: lessons learned for health improvement'

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  • 13 February 2007

    Seminar Series 3 Lecture 4 - Prof David Hunter

    Location: Glasgow

    'The Crisis of Confidence'

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  • 23 January 2007

    Seminar Series 3 Lecture 3 - Prof Bruce McEwen

    Location: Glasgow

    'Of Molecules and Mind: Stress, the Individual and the Social Environment'

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  • 13 December 2006

    Seminar Series 3 Lecture 2 - Prof Irene McAra-McWilliam

    Location: Glasgow

    'Creative Communities: design, technology and wellbeing'

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  • 08 November 2006

    Seminar Series 3 Lecture 1 - Jerry Sternin

    Location: Glasgow

    'Social Change from the Inside Out'

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