How we balance collective needs with individual consciousness is not a topic on which people want to receive much of a lecture.

FORBES: Prototyping The Distant Future

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.

NEWYORKER: A Pickpocket��s Tale

Mantel's lecture, organised by London Review of Books, was titled Undressing Anne Boleyn and was on the topic of royal women.

BBC: Hilary Mantel

One of the invited speakers was to be Joachim Rotkopf, who was to lecture on the origins of European surrealism to be found in Poe's work, precisely the topic that had provoked the controversy with Professor Xavier Urquiza from Mendoza, and that had kept me so amused in the pages of The Gold-Bug, the Society journal.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Borges and the Eternal Orangutans'