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The struggle for freedom and democracy in the Middle East

Tuesday 23 September 2025 · Professor Fawaz A Gerges
Politics
Arab Spring protests and Arab leaders

Bonds of freedom: the long fight beyond abolition

Tuesday 23 September 2025 · Dr Jake Subryan Richards
Race equity
Two enslaved people holding a baby

Seeing animals differently: the science and ethics of sentience

Tuesday 23 September 2025 · Professor Jonathan Birch
Politics
An octopus sitting on the sea bed

Tech and the political power of storytelling

Tuesday 27 May 2025 · Michael Vaughan
AI and tech
Graphic depiction of a political leader talking to an audience

The weaponisation of victimhood

Tuesday 28 January 2025 · Professor Lilie Chouliaraki
Society
Trump and protestors
Politics
nuclear powers

What really went wrong in the Middle East

Tuesday 19 March 2024 · Professor Fawaz A Gerges
Politics
What went wrong in the Middle East
Society
Members of the Chicago Police Force from the 19th century stand alongside their horses for a photograph

The power of images: understanding the importance of pictures in politics

Thursday 23 March 2023 · Professor William A Callahan
Politics
Trump and migrants by a wall

Are we in danger of over-romanticising the military?

Thursday 23 March 2023 · Katharine M Millar
Society
A yellow ribbon

How the US can learn from Europe and beyond to improve its support for single-parent families

Thursday 23 March 2023 · Dr Amanda Sheely, Professor Janet C. Gornick, Dr Laurie C. Maldonado, Dr Isabel Shutes, Dr Thomas Biegert
Politics
woman and child in America