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2018-2019 Lecture Series

 

Generations

This year we aim to explore some of the dramatic and often unexpected political and social changes that are currently taking place, and which leave many people feeling like we are living through a period in which history has ‘sped up’.

Events

Student protest: then and now 

Speakers: Hilary Wainwright and Matthew Myers 

Date: 10th October 2018

Time: 6:30pm to 8:00pm

Venue: Shaw Library, Old Building

You can find the podcast of the event here.

The End of Nuclear Weapons

Speaker: Beatrice Fihn

Date: 17 October 2018

Time: 6.30-8pm

Venue: Shaw Library, Old Building

You can find the podcast of the event here.



Generations of feminism? 

Speakers: Avtar Brah, Clare Hemmings, Niharika Pandit and Priya Raghavan

Date: 23 January 2019                 

Time: 6.30-8pm                                                     

Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House       

You can find the podcast of the event here.


How did we reach the present crisis in social care and what are the solutions?

Speaker: Professor Pat Thane

Date: Wednesday 20 January 2016                          Time: 6.30-8pm                                                 Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building                                 

Silence of the Great War: all the things we cannot hear

Speaker: Professor Jay Winter

Date: 18 March 2019 

Time: 6.30-8pm 

Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building 

You can find the podcast of the event here.

Intergenerational Justice and Generational Sovereignty in Light of Brexit Vote and of Climate Change

Speaker: Axel Gosseries

Date: 26 March 2019
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
This event was co-hosted with the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

You can find the podcast of the event here.

The Generation that Built and Cut Down Democracy

Speakers: Zsuzsanna Szelényi

Date: 30th April 2019                             

Time: 18.30-20.00                                          

Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

You can find the podcast of the event here.

Clear Bright Future: a radical defence of the human being

Speaker: Paul Mason                               

Date: 13th May 2019                                   

Time: 18.30-20.00                                           

Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

You can find the podcast of the event here.

The Problem of Modernity: reinterpreting decolonisation and the modern?

Speaker: Amit Chaudhuri                          

Date: 6th June 2019                                   

Time: 18.30-20.00                                           

Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building

You can find the podcast of the event here.