2025 Seamus Heaney Lecture - Sir Simon Schama
6:00pm - 7:30pm /
Thursday 13th November 2025
Type: Lecture /
Category: Department
- Viola Segeroth
- Admission: FREE REGISTRATION REQUIRED - booking link will be added once venue has been confirmed
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Please note: Booking link will be provided once the room on the University of Liverpool campus has been confirmed.
The Annual Seamus Heaney Lecture is a highlight of our events calendar and this year we are looking forward to hearing from historian and TV presenter Sir Simon Schama. There will also be readings of Seamus Heaney's poetry by Liverpool born actor Leane Best (Cold Feet, Ted Lasso).
Sir Simon Schama, CBE, FBA is Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University; author of 18 books translated into 20 languages, including Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, Rough Crossings, The American Future: A History, Belonging, short-listed for the Baillie-Gifford Prize and Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations.
He was The New Yorker magazine's art critic in the 1990s for which he won the National Magazine award and is currently Contributing Editor of the Financial Times. He is the writer presenter of more than fifty television documentaries for the BBC, PBS and the History Channel, made over a quarter of a century, and including the Emmy-winning Power of Art. Those series including the 15 part A History of Britain, The Story of the Jews, Civilisations and this year alone The Story of Us and The Road to Auschwitz.
He has written fiction (Dead Certainties) and theatre (Decade, commemorating 9/11) for Rupert Goold's Headlong Theatre with whom he also collaborated on a stage version of Rough Crossings which was also a 90 minute docudrama for the BBC. His television work has won numerous awards and he has been nominated for BAFTAs for many of his series.
In 2019, he was awarded a knighthood for services to history at Buckingham Palace.
We will open registration once we receive confirmation of venue details. If you wish, you can email irish@liverpool.ac.uk to be added to our newsletter and receive automatic updates on this lecture (and our other events).
The Annual Seamus Heaney Lecture is a highlight of our events calendar and this year we are looking forward to hearing from historian and TV presenter Sir Simon Schama. There will also be readings of Seamus Heaney's poetry by Liverpool born actor Leane Best (Cold Feet, Ted Lasso).
Sir Simon Schama, CBE, FBA is Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University; author of 18 books translated into 20 languages, including Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, Rough Crossings, The American Future: A History, Belonging, short-listed for the Baillie-Gifford Prize and Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations.
He was The New Yorker magazine's art critic in the 1990s for which he won the National Magazine award and is currently Contributing Editor of the Financial Times. He is the writer presenter of more than fifty television documentaries for the BBC, PBS and the History Channel, made over a quarter of a century, and including the Emmy-winning Power of Art. Those series including the 15 part A History of Britain, The Story of the Jews, Civilisations and this year alone The Story of Us and The Road to Auschwitz.
He has written fiction (Dead Certainties) and theatre (Decade, commemorating 9/11) for Rupert Goold's Headlong Theatre with whom he also collaborated on a stage version of Rough Crossings which was also a 90 minute docudrama for the BBC. His television work has won numerous awards and he has been nominated for BAFTAs for many of his series.
In 2019, he was awarded a knighthood for services to history at Buckingham Palace.
We will open registration once we receive confirmation of venue details. If you wish, you can email irish@liverpool.ac.uk to be added to our newsletter and receive automatic updates on this lecture (and our other events).