Professor Michael Kenny (Professor of Public Policy, and inaugural Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge) will introduce his main arguments, with discussion from a high-profile panel.
Head to Awraq Festival for an enriching conversation with Palestinian writer and editor, Fida Jiryis, who will be calling in online from the Galilee. Fida will talk about her memoir ‘Stranger In My Own Land’.
Join the University of York for the keynote lecture of the Anticolonial Agendas workshop with Professor Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, who is visiting York for the first time.
Join us on an insightful evening with authors Francis Mangeni and Andrew Mold as they launch ‘Borderless Africa: A Sceptic’s Guide to the Continental Free Trade Area’, a fascinating study of the different dimensions and implications of the the largest free-trade zone in the world.
Join Dr Elizabeth Pearson & Dr Joe Whittaker at Waterstones Swansea for what will be a fascinating discussion about the emergence of extreme misogyny and masculinities.
As the multi-polar world of global politics becomes ever more complex, who better to cast light on its workings than a physicist turned President? Join Armen Sarkissian, former President of Armenia and author of ‘The Small States Club’, as he argues for his new theory of quantum politics, in which individuals are necessarily connected across space and our world is dominated by randomness, uncertainty and possibility.
Former Deputy Finance Minister for Iraq Ali Allawi, openDemocracy’s Head of Global Investigations Claire Provost and Armen Sarkissian, author of ‘The Small States Club’, debate free markets and feudal overlords.
Doctor and aid worker Lynne Jones, and lawyer and climate activist Farhana Yamin, a key architect of the Paris climate agreement, discuss the rise and methods of nonviolent action for political change.
In this Ethical Matters talk, Elizabeth Pearson discusses her research among two of Britain’s key extremist movements.
Former President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian (author of ‘The Small States Club’), Chief Executive of Chatham House Bronwen Maddox, and leading war correspondent Christina Lamb, debate whether the global dominance of one geo-political bloc is safer for world order.
Peter Oborne will be interviewing Mihir Bose about his book, ‘Thank You Mr Crombie’, on Wednesday 29 May at 7.30pm in the Boston Room of George IV.
Join journalist and author Nabila Ramdani for a discussion about the chaos in France.
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