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23 November 2009

Living in a Digital World

23 November 2009, 7pm

Dame Wendy Hall, professor of computer science at the University of Southampton, explores what it will mean to be a digital citizen in the future.

Speaker: Dame Wendy Hall, Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton

Price: £6

0870 870 4771

Organiser: Science Museum

Tags: Lectures & Debates

24 November 2009

The Science and Perception of Beauty

24 November 2009, 7pm

Berhard Fink and Paul Matts reveal the science behind our obsessive search for beauty.

Speakers: Dr Paul Matts, Olay Research Fellow and Dr Bernhard Fink, University of Goettingen

Price: £8/£6

020 7409 2992

Organiser: Royal Institution of Great Britain

Tags: Lectures & Debates

An evening with Alison Weir and Sarah Gristwood

24 November 2009, 7:30pm

The authors will discuss the story of Anne Boleyn

Speakers: Alison Weir, historian and author of The Lady in The Tower: The Fall of Anne Bolyen and The Lady Elizabeth and Sarah Gristwood, author of Elizabeth and Leicester

£3

01293 533471

Organiser: Waterstones

Tags: Lectures & Debates

Our Unwritten Constitution

24 November 2009, 5:30-6:30pm

Professor Sir John Baker outlines the challenges and dangers of constitutional reform

Speaker: Sir John Baker, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge

Free

020 7969 5200

Organiser: British Academy

Tags: Lectures & Debates

Darwin's Greatest Friend: Sir Joseph Hooker of Kew

24 November 2009, 7:30pm

Tim Hooker speaks on Darwin's close companion

Speaker: Tim Hooker, BRLSI member

£4/£2

01225 312084.

Organiser: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution

Tags: Lectures & Debates

25 November 2009

Which Way's Left? Lessons from Labour's History

25 November 2009

The MP James Purnell and others discuss where the left should look for inspiration today.

Speakers: Matt Carter- Former General Secretary of the Labour Party, on RH Tawney, Lord Donoughue- Previously Head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit, on Herbert Morrison, Dianne Hayter - Former Chair of the Fabian Society and Labour Party, on Charlie Turnock, Lord Lipsey - Former Chair of the Fabian Society and Special Adviser to Anthony Crosland

Chair: James Purnell MP for Stalybridge and Hyde and Director of Demos' Open Left Project

Free

020 7367 6333

Organiser: Open Left Project/Labour History Group

Tags: Lectures & Debates

Credit Crunch and Recession; What Have We Learnt?

25 November 2009, 6pm

Martin Wolf on the global economic outlook.

Speaker: Martin Wolf, chief economic commentator and associate editor of the Financial Times

Price: £20

0131 339 9235

Organiser: Royal Society of Edinburgh

Tags: Lectures & Debates

26 November 2009

Hi-jacked: Scots and the Contested Memory of Robert Burns

26 November 2009, 6pm

Professor Christopher Whatley discusses how Burns’s legacy has shaped Scotland’s social history.

Speaker: Professor Christopher Whatley

Free

01382 385 564

Organiser: University of Dundee

Tags: Lectures & Debates

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Exhibition Tour

26 November 2009, 7pm

The art historian James Hicks explores the diversity of approaches in this year's portraits

Speaker: James Hicks, art historian and cultural critic

Free

020 7306 0055

Organiser: National Portrait Gallery

Tags: Lectures & Debates

Don’t look back: Radical thinkers and the arts since 1909

26 November 2009, 6:30-8pm

On the 100th anniversary of the Futurism Manifesto, a distinguished panel including Terry Eagleton assesses the legacy of modernism and asks how today's radical thinkers might understand the role of the arts at the dawn of the twenty first century and beyond.

Speakers: Terry Eagleton is Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster. His many books include Walter Benjamin: Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism in Set 4 of Radical Thinkers, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate and the forthcoming The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue

Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York and author of Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought in Set 4 of Radical Thinkers, Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance, The Book of Dead Philosophers, On Humour and Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction.

Kate Soper is a Professor in the Department of Humanities, Arts and Languages at London Metropolitan University and author of To Relish the Sublime: Culture and Self-realisation in Postmodern Times and What Is Nature?: Culture, Politics and the Non-Human.

Eyal Weizman is an architect and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London and author of Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation.

Chair: Alberto Toscano, editor of Historical Materialism, lecturer in sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London and author of The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze and the forthcoming Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea.

Does getting back to work have to be a pain?

Work is good for you. It meets psychosocial needs, provides a framework for identity and social status, reduces poverty, and promotes rehabilitation and health.

With more than 2.6 million people in the UK dependent on incapacity benefits, the government is looking for ways to help people return to the workplace. The development of the new Employment and Support Allowance that is replacing Incapacity Benefit and Income Support focuses on what people can do, rather than on what they can’t.

This and the other reports in the longrunning series of New Statesmanand Pfizer joint-sponsored round table discussions are available at: www.policyforum.co.uk

2 March 2009

Previous New Statesman Round Table

The Future direction of the NHS

Sixty years ago, few could have predicted that the National Health Service would look as it does now. Indeed, its founders even predicted falling demand for its services, as major infections were brought under control.

Predicting what the NHS will start to look like over the next 60 years may be even more difficult as the pace of change will be furious and could lead us in directions that we have not even countenanced.

This supplement, sponsored jointly by the New Statesman and Pfizer, invited participants to offer their own expectations for the future direction of health services. What those who have participated in this project seem to agree on is that technology will have a radical effect on the landscape, that patients will be at the centre of their own healthcare and that services will be delivered more locally, even in patients’ own homes.