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Lunch Hour Lectures

Lunch Hour Lectures are an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at UCL, in bite sized chunks. Speakers are drawn from across the university, and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications.

Lunch Hour Lectures take place 13:15 – 13:55, are free, require no pre-booking, and are open to anyone on a first-come, first-served basis.

All lectures are streamed live online and can be watched by clicking on the Watch Lunch Hour Lectures online link above. Lectures can also be watched from 2 weeks after the event either on this website or via our YouTube channel where all lectures will be subtitled. Alternatively, lectures can also be downloaded from iTunes U.

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Thursday 7 June 2012

Lunch Hour Lectures on tour at the British Museum: At home with the Neanderthals: Excavations at la Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey

13:15  — 13:55

The Neanderthals represent an incredibly successful and distinctive experiment in being human, they evolved as a separate human lineage over half a million years before apparently…

Thursday 14 June 2012

Lunch Hour Lectures on tour at the British Museum: Virtual Visitors: Why would anyone want to visit the virtual British Museum collections online?

13:15  — 13:55

Launched in October 2007, the British Museum provides virtual access to objects and collections via an online database, and by the end of 2009 nearly 2 million records had been made…

Thursday 21 June 2012

Lunch Hour Lectures on tour at the British Museum: A book by any other name would smell as sweet

13:15  — 13:55

Few people would fail to recognise the bittersweet and musty smell of a historic library, yet not many would know that this bouquet also tells us what heritage objects are made of. To…

Thursday 28 June 2012

Lunch Hour Lectures on tour at the British Museum: Discoveries and re-evaluations: painting practices under the microscope

13:15  — 13:55

Paintings are not always what they seem to be on the surface. Technical investigation, particularly of pigments, has revealed not only surprising differences between the present and…