Public Lecture Repository

Missed our live events? Catch up with these video recordings:

 

Professor Kevin O’Rourke: ‘From most-favoured-nation to reciprocal tariffs: what is unsurprising about Trump’s tariffs, what is surprising, and why it matters’
Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture, Thursday 19th February 2026
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Professor Jane Humphries: ‘Caring about care: The economic history of caring labour’
Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture, Thursday 27th February 2025
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Professor Ann Carlos: ‘Peoples of a Spacious Land’: Native Economies in North America before 1500’
Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture, Thursday 11th April 2024
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‘Chatting GPT’ What does history tell us about the future of AI?
Filmed in the Lyric Theatre, Belfast as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, October 30th 2025.
Host: Andrew Dorman (CEPH)
Speakers:
Malte Hinrichs (Queen’s University Belfast)
Judy Stevenson (University College London)
Michael Aldous (Queen’s University Belfast)
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‘Your Vote Matters’ Elections in the past, present and future
Filmed in the Lyric Theatre, Belfast as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, November 7th 2024.
Host: Andrew Dorman (CEPH)
Speakers:
Alan Fernihough (Queen’s University Belfast)
Chris Colvin (Queen’s University Belfast)
Vitalia Yaremko (Trinity College Dublin)
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‘I told you so’ How economics can use past disasters to improve the future
Filmed in McHugh’s Bar, Belfast as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, November 2nd 2023
Host: Andrew Dorman (CEPH)
Speakers:
Chris Colvin (Queen’s University Belfast)
Áine Doran (Ulster University)
William Quinn (Queen’s University Belfast)
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