The Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series: Adam Sisman Living with my Subject: Dr Johnson, Hugh Trevor-Roper, John le Carré, and Me

British writer, editor and biographer, Adam Sisman, will deliver the ninth Carnegie Lecture. Sisman received the National Book Critics Circle Award for his second book, Boswell's Presumptuous Task. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of the University of St Andrews.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York was established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 “to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding”. Today it continues to fulfil that mission, funding major programmes in such fields as education, democracy and international peace.

To celebrate its centenary, the Corporation established a ten-year programme of public lectures at Scotland's ancient universities: St Andrews, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow. The programme will bring some of the world's most creative thinkers in the fields of the arts, sciences, education and international affairs to Scotland.

Doors open at 5.15pm for a 6pm start.