The Willoughby Memorial Lecture was established in 1932 in honour of Sir Clement Willoughby, Aldenmoor’s sixth Vice-Chancellor and a pioneering figure in the philosophy of mind. Each year, the lecture is delivered by an internationally distinguished scholar whose work crosses disciplinary boundaries.

This year’s speaker is Dame Cecilia Hartwood, FRS, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Cambridge and co-author of the widely debated monograph The Moral Weight of Forgetting (Oxford University Press, 2023). Her lecture will examine whether neuroscientific discoveries about memory reconsolidation change our understanding of personal responsibility, testimony, and the ethics of confession.