St Anne's has a rich array of talks on offer both to members of College and to the public on a regular basis. The list below taken from talks held in the academic year 2009-10 gives an idea of the variety, both in terms of speakers and in content.

General Talks

• Professor Roger Chartier, Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature 2010, gave a series of four lectures entitled ‘Textual Trajectories in Early Modern Europe’
• Stephen Garrett, News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media 2009-10, gave a series of four lectures. Two of these were held at St Anne’s and were entitled ‘How to Grow a Creative Business According to the Laws of Chance’ and ‘Why the Only Rule is that There Are No Rules’
• Carlo di Benedetti, Chairman, Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso / La Repubblica: ‘Newspapers and Democracy in the Internet era: The Italian Case’ (Reuters Memorial Lecture 2009)
• Armando Iannucci: ‘Do we get the politics we deserve?’ (Sarah McCabe Memorial Lecture 2010)
• Dr Andrew Klevan: 'Internalising the Musical: Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)’ (ASM Spring Event Lecture 2010)
• Jana Bennett, Director of BBC Vision and the most senior woman in British broadcasting: ‘The Future of Public Service Broadcasting’ (Principal’s Seminar Series, Leadership in the Modern World)
• Michelle Clayman, Founder and Chief Executive of New Amsterdam Partners in New York: ‘Working in Finance’ (Principal’s Seminar Series)
• Jan Younghusband, Commissioning Editor, BBC Music & Events: ‘Music in Broadcasting’ (Principal’s Seminar Series)

Domus Seminars

• Mr Christopher Wigg: ‘Change at Work: How I Managed. Views on Oxford from a Corporate World’
• Professor Howard Hotson: ‘Small is Beautiful: Territorial Fragmentation and Intellectual Fertility in the Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806’
• Professor Alan Cocks: ‘An Engineer in a Material World’

Subject Family Seminars

• Ms Hilary Kalmbach, DPhil Student: ‘History as a Hobby in Interwar Egypt: Memoirs, Modernity and the Taqwim Dar al` Ulum Yearbook’
• Dr Brian Ball, Tutor in Philosophy: ‘Meaning, Truth, and Existence’
• Dr Martin Harry, Fellow and Tutor in Music: ‘From Grundriß to Aufriß: The Impact of Stalinist Architecture on my Composition Eingestellt’
• Juan Gonzalez, Graduate Student in Zoology: ‘Conserving Rainforest Birds in the Philippines: The Hottest of Hot-Spots’
• Dr Andrew Goodwin, Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry: ‘Atomic Yogo: The Science of Flexibility’
• Imogen Goold, Fellow and Tutor in Law: ‘Do You Own Your Body Parts?’
• Nicholas Randel, MPhil Comparative Government: ‘Judicial Politics in New Democracies: Case Studies from Southern Africa'
• Ben Newton, MSc Education, ‘Educational Responses to Flooding in New Orleans and Hull’
• Professor Robert Falster, Senior Fellow at MEMC, Visiting Professor in Materials and Plumer Visiting Fellow: ‘Silicon Rules OK: The Dominance of Silicon for Microelectronics and Solar Energy Applications’
• Dr Kate Watkins, Fellow and Tutor in Experimental Psychology: ‘Talking Brains’
• Denis Lapitski, DPhil student at the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (OCIAM): ‘Quantum Simulation: The Klein Paradox’
• Jim Thompson, DPhil Student: ‘A Novel Structure for Low Cost Silicon Photovoltaics’
• Dr Isabelle Comte, Post-doctoral Researcher: ‘Galectin-3 Modulates Adult Subventricular Zone Neuroblast Migration’
• Dr Renata Pieragostini, Junior Research Fellow in Music: ‘Medieval Composers as Witnesses of Political Events: An Episode in the Western Schism and an English Motet’

Lunchtime Seminars: Humanities and Social Sciences

• Tim Gardam, Principal of St Anne’s College: ‘Broadcasting in a Digital World’
• Prof Sheila Rowbotham, British socialist feminist theorist and writer, University of Manchester: ‘Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love’
• Prof Tony Shaw, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Hertfordshire: ‘George Orwell, the CIA and Cold War Movies’
• Prof Sally Shuttleworth, Head of Humanities Division, University of Oxford: ‘Defending the Humanities’
• Isabel Vasseur, Director of ArtOffice: ‘Developing the Public Art Movement in Britain’
• Michael Sibly, Secretary of Faculties and Academic Registrar, University of Oxford: ‘What are Universities for, and Who Should Pay for Them?’
• Dr Mark Wheeler, Reader in London Metropolitan University: ‘The Hollywood-Washington Relationship and Celebrity Political Engagement’
• Michael Stanley, Director of Modern Art Oxford: ‘During the Exhibition the Gallery will be Closed: Place and Context in Contemporary Art’
• Dr Julian Stallabrass, Reader in The Courtauld Institute of Art: ‘The Branding of the Museum’
• Sue Sharpe, Freelance Social Science Researcher: ‘Modern Motherhood: Pleasure and Pressure’
• Dr Gareth Davies, Fellow and Tutor in American History, St Anne's College: ‘Hurricane Katrina in Historical Perspective: The History of American Responses to Natural Disasters’
• Dr David Smith, St Anne’s College Librarian and Vice Principal: ‘The St Anne’s Book of Hours and Other Library Treasures’
• Patrick McGuinness, Professor of French and Modern Literature, St Anne’s College: ‘Modern War Poetry’
• Dr Adrian Bingham, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Sheffield: ‘Sex, Sensation and Scandal? Reflections on Historical Research into the Popular Press’
• Dr Branwen Hide, Liaison and Partnership Officer at the Research Information Network: ‘The Future of Research? Research in a Digital Age’
• Dr Andrew Klevan, University Lecturer in Film Studies, St Anne’s College: ‘Internalising the Musical’
• Dr Matthew Reynolds, Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature, St Anne’s College; Leverhulme Major Research Fellow 2006-09: ‘Designs for a Happy Home: A Novel in Ten Interiors’
• Dr Pierre Purseigle, Lecturer in Modern History, Director of the Centre for First World War Studies, University of Birmingham. Visiting Lecturer (Maître de conférences), Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris: ‘Uneasy Balance: Reflections of a First World War Historian on Scholarship and Memory’
• Jackie Ashley, Columnist & political interviewer, The Guardian: ‘The Cameron-Clegg Coalition - Can it Last?’
• James Attlee, Author of Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey: ‘The Art of Everyday Life’

Lunchtime Seminars: Sciences

• Prof Armand Leroi, Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Imperial College London, Author and TV presenter: ‘The War Against Banality And Untruth’
• Dr Chris Lavy, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Oxford: ‘African Children with Physical Impairment – Can we be Scientific and Apply Numbers?’
• Prof Ian Goldin, Director of the James Martin 21st Century School, Oxford: ‘Challenges of the 21st Century’
• Prof Steve Jackson, University of Cambridge & BBSRC’s Innovator of the Year: ‘Commercialization of Academic Science: How Actively Should this be Pursued and How Can an Individual cademic Scientist get the Balance Right?’
• Dr Michael Bonsall, Reader in Zoology and University Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, member of the NERC Peer Review College and DEFRAs Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE): ‘What is the Role of Scientific Information in Government?’
• Dr Matthew Freeman, FRS, Head of Division of Cell Biology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge; Member of the Executive Committee of the Campaign for Science and Engineering (formerly Save British Science): ‘Making a CaSE for Science, or How to Punch above your Weight when Lobbying Government’
• Prof Brian Cox, Royal Society URF, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester & Large Hadron Collider at CERN; also TV presenter: ‘The Importance of "Big Science"’
• Prof John Mumford, Professor of Natural Resource Management and Head of Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, Chairman of GB Non-native Species Risk Analysis Panel: ‘How we do Invasive Species Risk Analysis, Well and Almost Well’
• Prof David Macdonald DSc FRSE, Professor of Wildlife Conservation, Director of WildCRU, University of Oxford: ‘Of Mice and Men - A View of Wildlife Conservation’
• Prof Sir Tim Hunt FRS, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2001; Group Leader, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute: ‘How to Win a Nobel Prize!’
• Joseph Winters, Senior Press officer, Institute of Physics: ‘Making Science News’
• Dr Evan Harris, former MP for Oxford West & Abingdon, Liberal Democrat Science Spokesman (2005-); sits on the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee (2003-), and the Joint Committee on Human Rights (2005-): ‘Science and Policy’
• Prof Marian Stamp Dawkins, Professor in Animal Behaviour, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford: ‘The Future of Farming’
• Prof Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford; Novelist & translator: ‘Adventures in science & literature’
• Prof Sir Martin Taylor FRS, Professor in Pure Mathematics, University of Manchester; recent Physical Secretary and Vice President of the Royal Society; Member of Council of EPSRC; Incoming master of Merton College, Oxford (from Oct 2010): ‘The Scientific Century: securing our future prosperity’
• Prof Charles Godfray FRS, Hope Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford; President, British Ecological Society; member, NERC Council; Chair, the Lead Expert Group of the Foresight Food and Farming Project: ‘Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People’