Events

In this talk, Paul Clammer (author of ‘Black Crown’) uncovers the lost story of Thomas Goodall, a Bristolian who served as Haiti’s first Admiral and tangled with the Royal Navy in the fight to defend Haitian independence.

The second Vice-Chancellor’s Dialogues event grapples with the question: ‘Is liberal democracy dying?’ The evening will be hosted by Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice and chaired by the Master of Selwyn College.

Join The Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge for this talk on five hundred years of English and British violence in Europe.

Join Nancy Lindisfarne & Jonathan Neale for the launch of their co-authored book, ‘Why Men?’

The Gender Institute, PSA Specialist Group in Political Violence & Terrorism and the Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre are collaborating to present a round table discussion on the new book, ‘Extreme Britain: Gender, Masculinity and Radicalisation’ by Elizabeth Pearson.

Join the WOGCN for this Trailblaze Series event — ‘From Invisible to Influential: Women of Colour Rising in Media’.

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 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.

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.