The Clark Lectures aim to inspire the best of thinking about faith, learning and leadership by bringing to Sydney the world’s finest scholars.
Named in honour of eminent scientist, inventor of the bionic ear, and Scots Old Boy ('51), Professor Graeme Clark AC, this annual public lecture series is hosted by The Scots College, one of Australia’s oldest and most respected Presbyterian schools for boys.
Since its establishment in 2014, the annual Clark Fellowship has featured leading thinkers including an MIT nuclear physicist, and one of the world's 50 most influential living philosophers. It has come to be a significant annual intellectual and cultural event in Sydney.
To read more about past lectures, click here.
Named in honour of eminent scientist, inventor of the bionic ear, and Scots Old Boy ('51), Professor Graeme Clark AC, this annual public lecture series is hosted by The Scots College, one of Australia’s oldest and most respected Presbyterian schools for boys.
Since its establishment in 2014, the annual Clark Fellowship has featured leading thinkers including an MIT nuclear physicist, and one of the world's 50 most influential living philosophers. It has come to be a significant annual intellectual and cultural event in Sydney.
To read more about past lectures, click here.
Professor Francis Su
The 2023 Clark Distinguished Professorial Fellow
Coming to Sydney in July-August 2023 as a guest of The Scots College, Sydney
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Professor Francis Su writes about the dignity of human beings and the wonder of mathematical teaching. He is the Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College in California – one of the top STEM colleges in the United States – and a former president of the Mathematical Association of America. In 2013, he received the Haimo Award, a nationwide teaching prize for college math faculty, and in 2018 he won the Halmos-Ford Award for writing. His work has been featured in Quanta Magazine, Wired, and the New York Times. His book Mathematics for Human Flourishing (2020), winner of the 2021 Euler Book Prize, offers an inclusive vision of what math is, who it’s for, and why anyone should learn it.
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The 2022 Clark Lecture with Harvard psychologist Professor Nancy Hill
We were delighted to host eminent Harvard psychologist Professor Nancy Hill in July-August 2022. During her month-long visit to The Scots College, Professor Hill spoke to a wide number of students, faculty, parents and friends, culminating in her outstanding Clark Lecture on Keeping Faith, Finding Meaning: Adolescence and Coming of Age. If you missed it, you can watch it below.
To find out more about Professor Hill and her other appearances while in Sydney as a guest of The Scots College, click here.
Professor Nancy E. Hill is the Charles Bigelow Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and President of the Society for Research in Child Development. An expert in parenting and adolescent development, her most recent book is The End of Adolescence: The Lost Art of Delaying Adulthood (Harvard University Press, 2021), co-authored with Alexis Redding.
To find out more about Professor Hill and her other appearances while in Sydney as a guest of The Scots College, click here.
Professor Nancy E. Hill is the Charles Bigelow Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and President of the Society for Research in Child Development. An expert in parenting and adolescent development, her most recent book is The End of Adolescence: The Lost Art of Delaying Adulthood (Harvard University Press, 2021), co-authored with Alexis Redding.
