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• British Academy Lecture: The sign language myth by Professor Annelies Kusters

  Apr 25th 2024

  Sign language is not universal – hundreds of different types are used throughout the world – but could there be one common system that everyone could understand? Could International Sign be that language – the answer to global signed communication? The lecture will be illustrated with clips from ethnographic films the speaker has directed.

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• The theatre in the public conversation by Michael Billington

  Apr 30th 2024

  Drawing on 60 years of reviewing and broadcasting, most prominently as drama critic of the Guardian from 1971 to 2019, the biographer of Harold Pinter, Alan Ayckbourn, and Tom Stoppard will discuss the state of the British stage, in conversation with Jo Robinson, Professor of Theatre and Performance at Newcastle University.

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• The future of a peaceful and prosperous global order (on earth and in outer space), for all by Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan

  May 7th 2024

  Marginalisation and exclusion exist in liberal democracies; political rights do not guarantee a dignified life. Applying frameworks from neuroscience, philosophy, international relations, geostrategy, applied history and disruptive technologies, dignity must be made a central focus in policy-making, or risk social unrest and, ultimately, global order.

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• Robinson Prize Lecture in Cosmology: Dark matter through the looking glass of Homo Narrans by Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

  May 9th 2024

  Dark matter is invisible but plays a highly visible role in the evolution of spacetime, while challenging our conventional notions of what ‘stuff’ is. The speaker will reflect on the scientific questions raised by our cosmic search for understanding, as well as what it means to do this work as a storytelling species.

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• Three tales from the frontier of medical sciences research

  May 14th 2024

  Winners of the Faculty of Medical Sciences postgraduate public speaking prize describe their quests at the cutting edge of science, and how their research will underpin the medical treatments of tomorrow, and improve our health and care.

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• The Russia-Ukraine War: The future of conflict, or the past? by Professor Mark Galeotti

  May 16th 2024

  Full-scale war in Europe was meant to be a thing we no longer had to fear. So what can we make of the Russia-Ukraine War: must we question our assumptions about 21st century conflict, or is it an atavistic brawl from the past? Is it, as Vladimir Putin claims, part of a global war against Western hegemony, or an expression of 19th century geopolitical thinking?

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