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Details of this year’s programme are listed below. Click on the speaker’s name for their biography, the lecture title for the synopsis, or the venue name for directions and disabled access information.

Speaker:
Cosmonaut / Astronaut Panel
( Viktor Petrovich Savinykh; Sergei Vasilyevich Avdeev; Dr Jay Apt )
Lecture title: Changing Landscapes: Changing Planet
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Date and time:
6.30pm Wednesday 19 September 2007
Venue: The Sheraton Grand Hotel, 1 Festival Square, Edinburgh
Chair: Sir Michael Atiyah OM FRS HonFREng HOnFMedSci HonFRSE PRSE
Vote of thanks: Alex Blackwood, Careers Scotland and Chair of the host Country Organising Committee, Assocation of Space Explorers Congress, Edinburgh 2007
Presented by: The Royal Society of Edinburgh

Speaker:
Malcolm Cooper
Lecture title: If nobody speaks of remarkable things: the role of heritage in Scotland’s future
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Date and time:
6.00pm Tuesday 2 October 2007
Venue: Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Galleries of Scotland, Weston Link (Princes Street Gardens entrance)
Chair: Councillor Deidre Brock, Convener of Culture and Leisure Committee, The City of Edinburgh Council
Presented by: The City of Edinburgh Council

Speaker:
Professor Tom Devine
Lecture title: Landscape and People: the Lowland Clearances
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Date and time:
6.00pm Thursday 18 October 2007
Venue:
Playfair Library, Old College, South Bridge
Chair: Professor Vicki Bruce, Vice-Principal and Head of College of Humanities and Social Science
Presented by: The University of Edinburgh

Speaker: Professor David Spergel
Lecture title: Our Changing View of the Universe
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Date and time: 7.30pm Wednesday 24 October 2007
Venue: Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Galleries of Scotland, Weston Link (Princes Street Gardens entrance)
Chair: Professor Alan Heavens, Institute for Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh
Presented jointly by: The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh and The City of Edinburgh Council

Speaker: Jill Fullerton-Smith
Lecture title: The Truth About Food … How to be slim
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Date and time: 7.00pm Thursday 15 November 2007
Venue: Edinburgh Business School Auditorium, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Campus
Chair: Professor Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice Chancellor
Vote of thanks: Professor Andy Walker, Vice-Principal at Heriot-Watt University
Presented by: Heriot-Watt University

Speaker:

Alan Grant

Lecture title: Writing Tomorrow Yesterday: How Fiction Became Reality
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Date and time:  7.00pm Tuesday 29 January 2008
Venue:
Quincentenary Hall, Surgeon’s Hall, Nicholson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DW
Chair: Denise Mina, crime novelist
Presented by: Scottish Arts Council

Speaker: Professor Aubrey Manning
Lecture title: 2008: International Year of Planet Earth
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Date and time: 6.30pm Wednesday 20 February 2008
Venue: Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Galleries of Scotland, Weston Link (Princes Street Gardens entrance)
Chair: Peter Syme, Scottish Director, The Open University
Presented by: The Open University in Scotland

Speakers: Tim Waterstone
Lecture title: Brave New World: the changing face of entrepreneurship
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Date and time:

6.30pm Friday 22 February 2008
Venue: Napier University, Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre, Craiglockhart Campus, Glenlockhart Road, EH14 1DJ
Chair: Professor Joan K Stringer CBE, Principal and Vice-Chancellor
Presented by: Napier University

Speakers: Professor Tom Nairn
Lecture title: Globalisation and Nationalism: The New Deal?
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Date and time: 6.30 pm Tuesday 4 March 2008
Venue: The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, The Symposium Hall, Hill Square, Edinburgh EH8 9DR
Chair: The Rt Hon Alex Salmond, The First Minister of Scotland
Presented by: The Scottish Government

Speakers:

Gareth Hoskins

Lecture title: Inside Out: Buildings and their landscapes
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Date and time: 6.30pm Thursday 28 February 2008
Venue: Lecture Theatre, National Museum of Scotland, National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF
(Lothian Street entrance)
Chair: Stephen Allen, Head of Learning & Programmes, National Museums Scotland
Presented by: National Museums Scotland