Malcolm Hay of Seaton devoted himself to highlighting the history of anti-Semitism and the Jewish people. His widow, Alice Ivy Hay of Seaton, made a bequest in her will to the University of Aberdeen to establish a memorial lecture series to promote greater understanding of the Jewish people and to combat anti-Semitism.
The 2012 Hay of Seaton Memorial Lecture will be delivered by His Most Eminent Highness, Fra' Matthew Festing, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, on the topic of Opportunities for Cooperation between the Faiths of the Middle East: an humanitarian view from the Order of Malta.
The lecture will be delivered on the following dates:
Monday 16 April 2012, 5:30pm
King's College Auditorium, University of Aberdeen
Wednesday 18 April 2012, 6:00pm
The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH