Double inaugural lecture by The Open University's Faculty of Business & Law, with Professor Caroline Derry on law and women and Professor Dimitris Sotiropoulos on finance and power.
The Open University is hosting a double inaugural lecture at the Berrill Lecture Theatre in Milton Keynes on Thursday 4 February 2027. It's titled Power, Law and Money: What History Can Teach Us, and it brings together two researchers from the university's Faculty of Business & Law to talk about how the past shapes the present.
Professor Caroline Derry, Professor of Feminism, Law and History, takes the first half. She works with court records and the novels of Agatha Christie to trace how twentieth-century criminal law and the legal profession shaped the lives of women, including women barristers and same-sex relationships. It's a look at the intersection of the courtroom and the home, and how the law of the time left its mark on the people it governed.
Professor Dimitris Sotiropoulos, Professor of Finance and Financial History, follows on. He talks about history as a lens for thinking critically about the present, arguing that modern capitalism was shaped by the technologies societies developed to deal with financial risk. Where Derry looks at the personal and the legal, Sotiropoulos looks at the structural and the economic, so the two halves cover quite different ground under the same broad theme.
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The whole session runs for an hour and a half, and it's open to audiences of all ages. If you can't make it into town, you can follow it online via a YouTube livestream. The lecture starts at 16:00, with doors open from 15:30, and it's free to attend.
Date
Thursday, 4 February 2027
16:00
Location
Berrill Lecture TheatrePrice
Free
Recommended Age
+14 years
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