When Classics meets Neuroscience

‘Where Classics Meets Neuroscience.’

St Gabriel’s School, Newbury

Baroness Greenfield is a world-renowned neuroscientist whose achievements read like a Who’s Who of how to succeed: she is a writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords whose research has included work on Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. She has published extensively on the neuroscience of consciousness and her most recent book discusses the impact of technology on the brain.

As an academic, she can count Senior Research Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford University and Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology, Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh between 2005 and 2013, director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain from 1998 to 2010, and in September 2013, she co-founded the biotech company Neuro-bio Ltd, where she is Chief Executive Officer. In 1994, she was the first woman to be invited to give the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture, adding her name to a list that includes the likes of Michael Farraday, David Attenborough and Richard Dawkins.

So why, I can hear you asking, has the Department of Classics invited her to St Gabriel’s? Well, it just so happens that Baroness Greenfield, a champion of women in science, studied Mathematics, Ancient history, Latin and Greek at ‘A’ level.

This is a talk that should appeal to everyone: those studying Classics, Psychology, Science, the Humanities… in fact, anyone who is interested in how the brain works.

The date of the talk is Thursday 28 September at 7.00pm, with refreshments and exhibition open from 6.15pm. If you would like to attend this talk, do put the date in your diary, and reserve your tickets from

Marc Ives

classics@stgabriels.co.uk