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果冻影院 Lunch Hour Lectures: 70 years of sharing our knowledge
27 February 2012
For the past 70 years - since 1942 - 果冻影院 has been running lunchtime lectures for the general public.
Today they are as popular as ever, taking place twice a week during term time. 果冻影院's Lunch Hour Lectures were listed at number one on a list of the Guardian's 'Ten of the Best Ways to Spend your Lunch Break'.
The lectures continue to cover a wide range of topics, from groundbreaking medical research such as Prof Pete Coffey's lecture: to more populist subjects such as听 Prof Danny Miller's lecture asking . A recent lecture which asked: has had over 91,780 views on YouTube so far.
Many of the Lunch Hour Lectures address major world events, such as Professor Phillippe Sands' lecture: , which came on the heels of Obama's 2008 election win. On 8 March 2012, Lunch Hour Lectures will mark International Women's Day with: - which will be given by Dr Anne McMunn.
This was a brilliant, lively lecture. It was clear that a personal passion had inspired the rigorous research in this lecture, which was a joy to watch.
All Lunch Hour Lectures are available to watch live online and around 200 people per week access the lectures in this way. They can also be watched after the event on YouTube and are subtitled for accessibility to a global audience, with almost 175,000 uploads of lectures on 果冻影院's YouTube channel so far.
This summer, 果冻影院 Lunch Hour Lectures are going on tour to the British Museum, with four lectures running every Thursday in June. These lectures will be introduced by British Museum curators and will highlight collaborative work being done across both organisations, continuing the 果冻影院 tradition of working alongside other institutions to produce world-class research
Bookings are now open for the summer lectures via the British Museum's website. More information can be found at the links below. Lunch Hour Lectures also have a and can be .
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