UPCOMING LECTURES
MONDAY 15 JANUARY
Seven Wonders
Blackwell’s, Oxford in store
7-8pm
WEDNESDAY 17 JANUARY
Seven Wonders
Waterstones Piccadilly
6:30pm
THURSDAY 18 JANUARY
Seven Wonders
Topping & Company Booksellers, Ely
7:30pm
FRIDAY 19 JANUARY
Seven Wonders
Waterstones, Canterbury
6:30pm
MONDAY 22 JANUARY
Seven Wonders
Waterstones, Nottingham
6:30-8pm
TUESDAY 23 JANUARY
Seven Wonders
Waterstones, Birmingham
6:30pm
https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-with-bettany-hughes/birmingham
WEDNESDAY 24 JANUARY
Seven Wonders
Waterstones, Cardiff
7-8:30pm
FRIDAY 26 JANUARY
Seven Wonders
Topping & Company, Bath
7:30-8:30pm
PREVIOUS LECTURES
Constantinople, Benaki Museum mini-festival at Kardamyli, Peloponnese
7th - 10th October 2021
The Spirit of Democracy, Costa Navarino (Athens Democracy Forum)
29th September - 3rd October 2021
Corfu Literary Festival
13th - 19th September 2021
Venus and Aphrodite, The British Museum
26th July 2021
Istanbul/Constantinople, Ramsay Centre, Sydney, Australia
14th September 2021
Socrates, Ramsay Centre, Sydney, Australia
20th July 2021
Life of Agrippina, The British Museum
8th July 2021
Artemis, Delos, Greece
24th June 2021
24th August 2019
26th October 2019
28th October 2019
18th November 2019
Hellenic Centre
30th November 2017
Leighton House
28th November 2017
World Monuments Fund Britain
27th November 2017
Churches Conservation Trust, All Saints Street, London
23rd November 2017
Anglo-Turkish Society
21st November 2017
Bridport Festival
11th November 2017
Bournemouth University
10th November 2017
Museum of London
7th November 2017
Cliveden Fesitval
15th October 2017
Cheltenham Literary Festival
11th October 2017
Asia House
5th October 2017
London's Living Room, City Hall
27th September 2017
Kenwood
2nd September 2017
Edinburgh Book Festival
24th August 2017
Ways With Words, Dartington
7th July 2017
Chalke Valley
1st July 2017
Hay Festival
28th-29th May 2017
Cambridge Classics Association
30th March 2017
Oxford Literary Festival
25th March 2017
Freethinking Festival
18th March 2017
National Archives Kew
15th March 2017
WOW Southbank Centre
12th March 2017
Emirates Festival of Literature
7th March 2017
Jewish Book Week
2nd March 2017
BBC History Festival in Bristol
25th February 2017
Queens University Belfast
23rd February 2017
New College of Humanities
13th February 2017
Dillington House
12th February 2017
British Library
3rd February 2017
British Museum
27th January 2017
Islamic Society of KPMG Istanbul Lecture
December 2016
Hay Festival Dhaka
17-19 November 2016
Gibraltar Festival
10-13 November 2016
BBC Free Thinking Festival
6-8 November 2016
Royal Geographical Society Event
October 2016
Cheltenham Literature Festival
1-11 October 2016
William Waldegrave Wells Festival
14-22 October 2016
A Good Life Festival
18 – 24 September 2016
Edinburgh Book Festival
22-28 August 2016
Manchester Science Conference
July 2016
War Music: An Evening of Epic Poetry
25 April 2016 - Kings Place
21 April 2016 - Conway Hall, London
'Socrates, Confucius, and the Buddha'
Lecture at The American School In England
15 April 2016
East Oxford Classics Centre Lecture
18 January 2016
British School at Ankara Annual Lecture
17 November 2015
Historic Houses Association Keynote Speech
17 November 2015
May 2015 - Middlesex University
March - April 2015 - Versailles
28 March 2015
1 September 2014 - Talk at the National Theatre
29 May 2014 - Talk at the KCL Centre for Hellenic Studies Anniversary
The Myth of Muthoi
March 2014 - Oxford University
Socratic Love
February 2014 - introduction to Robin Lane Fox - King's College London
Athens: The Stage Set For Socrates and Aristophanes
February 2014 - A.G. Leventis Annual Lecture, University College London
Socrates and Athens: Why we still need to care about both today
November 2013 - The Athens Dialogues: logos, icon, logo - King's College London
'Helenic' and Hellenic Poetry
October 2013 - Greece is the Word - Southbank Centre
Socrates, Society and the Abuse of Power
September 2013 - Oxford University
Lost In Translation
August 2013 - In conjunction with Edinburgh University
The Trouble with Helen
July 2013 - University College London
Treaty of Utrecht Conference Lecture
June 2013 - Utrecht University
The Trojan Horse
April 2013 - Public event with Simon Armitage - King's Place, London
When Women Ruled the World: History, Myth and Beyond
April 2013 - Turkish Embassy, London
Gifts of the Greeks
March 2013 - The Prince's Teaching Institute - Museum of London
The World that Birthed Socrates and its Relevance Today
February 2013 - in conjunction with the World Monuments Fund, Royal Geographical Society
Dorothy Buchan Lecture
November 2012 - She-Spartans - Leicester University
Flight
September 2012 - Wellcome Trust
Public lecture on the motif of flight in the Ancient World with particular reference to Icarus. Part of the Wellcome's 'Superhuman' programme
Re:Think Festival, Manchester
September 2012 - Festival of ideas in conjunction with the BBC’s Religion and Ethics Department. Presented a paper and discussion session ‘Fact and Faith: the role of history in religious broadcasting’
St Hilda’s Public Seminar
September 2012 - 'Divine Women'
Mansion House – Classics For All
July 2012 - Delivered a rationale (and associated film) outlining why ALL should have access to the classics.
June 2012 - Institute of Advanced Study - a discussion at the Royal Society, London about the role of philosophy in Ancient Greece.
Hay Festival
June 2012 - The Greek Idea - Hay Festival
Series of five public lectures and discussions on Greek ideas that still impact our lives today: The Greek Idea, Plato: The legacy of the Republic and The Symposium, Divine Women, Sparta vs Athens, After Homer, Heroisation.
Women of the World
March 2012 - Female Influence in the Bronze Age
WOW Festival - The South Bank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Royal Society - European Discovery of Arabic Culture
November 2011 - Muslim Heritage
Bettany was the 'Master of Ceremony'.
August 2011 - Cambridge University/Royal Television Society Convention
‘TV: A Modern Father of History?’ - Lecture to live audience then broadcast on BBC Two
Socrates
June 2011 - Great Thinkers of the World - Public lecture at the Purcell Rooms' London's South Bank Centre
April 2011 - Bristol University, Festival of Ideas
What Did The Greeks Ever Do For Us?
March 2011 - Institute of Ideas – Battle of Ideas
January 2011 - Pre-performance discussion with Prof. Michael Trapp, King’s College London
Akrotiri And The Women Of The Bronze Age
2010 - St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University, Public Seminar
Helen of Troy And The Women Of Sparta
2009 – Cardiff Archaeology Festival, Cardiff University
Royal Holloway Launch
2009 – Bettany lanuched Royal Holloway's new MA in Public History with an address at Royal Holloway.
The Classical World Today
November 2008 - Oxford University Classics Outreach Project – keynote for King Edwards’ conference organised for Secondary School and College Students
The Female of the Species
2007 - St Hilda’s College, Oxford University Gaudy Seminar
We Are The Spartans
May 2004 - Manchester University inset day, Manchester Museum