Naomi Klein, world famous author of No Logo is appearing at a free lecture at the University of Dundee to talk about her new book, The Shock Doctrine, which has already been an international bestseller.

The first President of the recently-formed United Nations Human Rights Council, and Mexican Ambassador to the UN, Luis Alfonso de Alba Góngora, is to give the Human Rights Centre's 25th Anniversary Public Lecture at the University of Essex.

The Rt Hon. Peter Mandelson, European Commissioner for Trade, will give the 2008 Alcuin lecture at Cambridge University on Friday, 8 February.

Football fans can find out how to ‘bend it like Beckham’ in a free public lecture at the University of Bath on Wednesday 10 October.