2025-03-26
1 小时 27 分钟Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
Well, well, good evening.
Welcome to the LSE and welcome to this very special inaugural lecture.
My name is Simon Glendening and I'm Head of the European Institute and Professor of European Philosophy.
Inaugural lectures are, of course, always special moments in an academic's career,
marking as it does their promotion to professor.
Many roads will lead to such a place, some perhaps more unusual than others.
I think our speaker tonight has quite an unusual road.
In my own case, only friends with a very lively imagination would have seen it in my future when I was young.
On the other hand,
something in my personal history may have made it seem a predictable path in my case
because my dad was a university professor,
a professor of Spanish.
Now, in preparation for my own inaugural lecture many years ago,
I dug out his and it was delivered, I discovered, exactly a month before I was born.
And my mother was there, so was I.
But it was a striking irony that he ended his inaugural lecture with a very pointed call.
He called for the abolition of inaugural lectures.
Oh my,