The Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lecture was endowed by Dr Lee Seng Tee in 2005 on the occasion of the College’s 40th anniversary and it is a major event in the academic year at Wolfson.
Lee Lecture 2024
We are delighted to welcome Sandi Toksvig OBE, the award-winning author, broadcaster, entertainer and founder of the Women’s Equality Party, as our speaker this year.
As a Cambridge alumna, Sandi has returned to the university this year after being awarded the first Qantabrigian Q+ Fellowship by the LGBTQ+ research programme which is based in the Department of Sociology. During her Fellowship, Sandi will be devloping a new Mappa Mundi project, a digital resource documenting women’s position, achievements and struggles across the globe. The project will be the topic of her talk here at Wolfson, 'How to change the world. A quick guide.'
Revisit some interesting ideas from past Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lectures:
- Race, Scientific Racism, and Genetics - Dr Adam Rutherford
This event took place on 24 November 2021.
- The Rules of Racial Standing: Race and Racism in the Era of the Public Lynching of George Floyd - Dr Nicola Rollock in conversation with Professor Paul Ramchandani
This event took place on 5 May 2021
- The Great Economic Transformation Needed to Address Climate Breakdown: Let Ideas be International, Goods Homespun, but, Above all, Let Finance be National - Ann Pettifor
This event took place on 15 May 2019.
- State, Faith, Violence: Case Studies in the Coercion of Belief - Neil MacGregor OM AO FSA
This event took place on 11 May 2017
Recordings of earlier Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lectures are available in the University's archive.