Instead I was treated to a lecture on the various failings of the foreign media.
The university said a lecture on Sunday evening would be open to the public.
The Prince of Wales has given a lecture on Islam and the environment at Oxford University's Sheldonian Theatre.
This was followed by a lecture on importance of maintaining reference records on subjects of interest to the writer.
Mr Muhtaseb has already given a lecture on the case to a group of consultants at an event in London.
So, first thing we get a lecture on Mars from Steve, and then we all get our asteroid briefing for Neemo.
It is like giving a lecture on compound interest to an over-indebted person about to sign for a tenth credit card.
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"Recently, we had a lecture on garbage and recycling, " Ji said.
But in a lecture on May 2nd, Mr King highlighted the need to monitor monetary growth, specifying previous episodes when it had presaged higher inflation.
Every visitor to the Antarctic continent gets a lecture on dos and don'ts, like keeping proper distance from wildlife, and making sure to avoid even accidental littering.
His apprehension remains through a lecture on diet and exercise.
Carnegie was outbid on a limited-edition series of jazz recordings signed by impresario Norman Granz and outbid twice on a flier heralding a lecture on spiritualism by Arthur Conan Doyle.
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In fact, he was even heckled by one or two audience members and approached by at least one after the show, who gave him a lecture on the mistreatment of animals.
"They are partial Jews while I am a complete Jew, " Yehoshua said during a lecture on relations between Israel and Diaspora Jews, referring to American Jewry, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
According to the preliminary program, there's a lecture on Mexican pre-Hispanic civilizations and a talk by Slim himself on the restoration of Mexico City's historical center--for which Slim has been reportedly footing the bill.
The third and final day on July 29 started with a lecture on law and the journalist, in which the principles of laws of libel and contempt of court and their possible defence were explained.
But in a lecture on what he's learned about innovation, Mike Lynch - who's the founder of another Cambridge technology success story, Autonomy - bemoaned the fact that all the brilliant work done by the university's scientists had failed to translate into many big hitters in the FTSE-100.
In the main Beijing office, a homely red-painted house in a courtyard littered with bicycles, visitors would be handed staff cards printed on recycled paper and given metal reusable chopsticks, together with a lecture on how much of China's virgin forest was disappearing for wooden chopsticks every year.
Instead of extending a hand to Italy, Spain and Portugal, Ms. Merkel rapped them on the knuckles, delivering a stern lecture on the need for more austerity among prodigal members of the European Union.
One course in particular captured his imagination: a lecture series on building machines that could manipulate molecules.
The 15 ambassadors sat politely as Helms delivered a civics lecture on Congress's role in U.S. foreign policy.
The Google connection came about after Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin heard a Brilliant lecture on early disease detection.
Dr. Asif Saberi gives them a short lecture on how to prepare and encourages everyone to have their shots at least seven days before traveling.
An artist has delivered a 45-minute lecture on the Highland Clearances to a flock of sheep to stimulate fresh debate on the historic events.
He was endearingly trusting when, a few days before giving a landmark lecture this week on Conservative crime policy, he allowed a pair of complete strangers supposedly desperate for a pee into his house in the early hours of the morning.
The photograph was first seen at King's College London during a Royal Institution lecture on colour theory by the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell on the 17 May 1861 and the college is marking the 150th anniversary of that demonstration with an evening of talks celebrating his scientific discoveries.
Inside, a student gave a rambling but heartfelt lecture on original sin, escape via death, the evangelical mission and the emptiness he felt before being saved.
The intersection of magic and neuroscience has become a topic of some interest in the scientific community, and Robbins is now a regular on the lecture circuit.
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