Events

The Belfast Society Lecture Programme September 2023-April 2024

All lectures will take place at 6.30pm in The Old Museum Building in College Square North.

2023

Wednesday 6 September

The inaugural lecture for the 2023-2024 Series will be given by Emeritus Professor Ronán Conroy – ‘Unraveling Ravel’s Bolero: Neurologists versus Musicologists’

Wednesday 4 October

Dr Rena Maguire – ‘A “bit” of archaeology: Introducing Irish Iron Age equitation in its regional and Continental context”

Wednesday 8 November

Dr David Eedy – ‘Sir Winston Churchill: his Medical Men’

Wednesday 6 December

Professor Alun Evans – ‘The Well-dressed Lady’s “Ingenious Contrivance”‘

2024

Wednesday 3 January

Dr Eileen Black – ‘A Tale of Three Books: Explorations in Belfast’s Art History, 1760-1888’

Wednesday 7 February

Professor Barry Kelly – ‘The Rise and Rise of Pictures, Letters and Numbers: From The Fertile Crescent to Artificial Intelligence’

Wednesday 6 March

Dr James O’Neill  – ‘Concrete, Steel and Bricks: 20th Century Defence Heritage of Northern Ireland’

Wednesday 3 April

Graham Skillen  – ‘The Skyvan before Success’

The Annual General Meeting will take place at 6pm on Wednesday 3 April 2024 before the lecture.

Details of the May outing will be circulated nearer the time.