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
Venue: Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7
Website: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk

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
Venue: Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albermarle Street, London W1.
Website: http://www.rigb.org
Email: ri@ri.ac.uk

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
Venue: Crawley Library, Southgate Avenue, Crawley
Website: http://www.waterstones.com/events

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
Venue: British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1.
Website: http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2009
Email: events@britac.ac.uk

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
Venue: BRLSI, 16-19 Queen Street, Bath
Website: http://www.brlsi.org

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
Venue: Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster, London SW1.
Website: http://www.openleft.co.uk/event
Email: seminars@demos.co.uk

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
Venue: Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PQ
Website: http://www.rse.org.uk/events

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
Venue: University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee
Website: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/tickets

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
Venue: National Portrait Gallery, Saint Martin's Place, London WC2
Website: http://www.npg.org.uk

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.

Sponsored by the New Statesman

Price: £8 (Adult) £6 (Concessions)

For tickets book online here or call 020 7887 8888

Organiser: Verso/Tate Britain
Venue: Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
Website: https://tickets.tate.org.uk/selectshow.asp
Email: ticketing@tate.org.uk

City-lit Berlin

27 November 2009, 7:30pm

Rory MacLean and Chloë Aridjis, authors, discuss Berlin writing.

Speakers: Rory MacLean, author of Stalin's Nose and Falling for Icarus, Chloë Aridjis, author of Book of Clouds, Katy Derbyshire, translator and Heather Reyes, series editor

Free

020 7596 4000

Organiser: Goethe Institut-London
Venue: Goethe Institut-London, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London, SW7
Website: http://www.goethe.de/london

Exchange at the Fronteir

28 November 2009, 11:30am

The philosopher AC Grayling in conversation with Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Speakers: AC Grayling, philosopher and author of Liberty in the Age of Terror, Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness and The Choice of Hercules and Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Free

020 7611 2222

Organiser: Wellcome Collection
Venue: Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1
Website: http://www.wellcomecollection.org
Email: info@wellcomecollection.org

Debate: It Is Time To Lift Sanctions Against Burma

02 December 2009, 6:45-8:30pm

Should Aung San Suu Kyi change her position and call for the removal of sanctions on the junta?

Speakers for the motion:

Thant Myint-U, Author of the acclaimed history of Burma The River of Lost Footsteps.

Dr Frank Smithuis, Medical doctor who ran Médecins Sans Frontières-Holland in Burma for 15 years.

Derek Tonkin, Former ambassador to both Vietnam and Thailand, and currently chairman of Network Myanmar.

Speakers against the motion:

John Bercow, Conservative MP and former Shadow Secretary of State for International Development.

Mark Farmaner, Director of Burma Campaign.

Benedict Rogers, South-East Asia team leader for Christian Solidarity Worldwide.

Brad Adams, Executive director of Human Rights Watch's Asia Division

Organiser: Intelligence Squared
Venue: Savoy Place, 2 Savoy Place, London
Website: http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events.php?e...
Email: info@intelligencesquared.com