Typo in the second paragraph (last word) - department should have capital D.
Change the location box text to "The symposium is taking place on Friday 7th Sept 2012, at Churchill College, Cambridge. Find out more about [the location], or [register now]."
For the speaker page:
Not sure about the left side of the header, though quite like the location side.
A little bit worried that the links to other pages are quite subtle.
I'm wondering about maybe making the speaker pictures coloured/modern? Might be a nice contract, for the historical vs modern research sort of theme. Not sure about it though.
The current layout would work well if we had topics from all the speakers, which is a good idea, but I'm not sure if we will or not. For now, assume that all we have are the little blurbs, and just stick them all up (ideally with photos next to them)?
For the front page:
For the speaker page: