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Henry Marsh at UEA Literary Festival
The neurosurgeon Henry Marsh has proved to be as much of a dab hand with a pen as he is with a scalpel. His first memoir of his life in…
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Claire Tomalin @ UEA Literary Festival
Claire Tomalin has forged an impressive reputation writing biographies of some of Britain’s most distinguished literary figures, among them the novelists Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy, and the…
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Christopher Andrew at UEA Literary Festival
Intelligence, according to the historian and security services specialist Christopher Andrew, suffers more from short termism than any other line of work. Indeed, speaking at the UEA Literary Festival, the…
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Christie Watson @ UEA Literary Festival
Christie Watson has spent most of her working life as a nurse, but it was only when she saw the nursing care given to her father when he was suffering…
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Madeline Miller @ UEA Literary Festival
If any writer was ideally suited to taking the characters of Greek mythology and write novels about them, it was Madeline Miller. When she was a child, her mother would…
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Jesmyn Ward @ UEA Spring Literary Festival 2018
To say that Jesmyn Ward’s literary works have been well received would be to put it mildly. Still aged only 41, her novels have won her the United States’ prestigious…
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UEA Lecture – Must the poor be always with us?
Baroness (Patricia) Hollis, a former government minister, an academic and a prize-winning author, was taking no prisoners when she discussed the question of, “Must the poor be always with us?”…
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UEA Philosophy discussion asks “Are Robots Taking Over?”
There is nothing new about concerns that robots will take over the world. As Dr Gareth Jones, a University of East Anglia honorary lecturer noted during a panel discussion entitled…
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In the Face of a Deteriorating Climate – Philosophy Talk Reviewed
Is humankind and many other forms of life on Earth doomed in the face of climate change? As temperatures continue to increase and a growth-obsessed world shows little appetite for…
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UEA 25th Spring Literary Festival line-up announced!
UEA 25th Spring Literary Festival line-up announced! For 25 years the Spring Literary Festival has welcomed the world’s finest writers and thinkers to Norwich and this spring will be no…
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Global Britain: Beyond Brexit Public Lecture Series 2018
Five lectures between Thursday 18th January and Thursday 10th May. These are free to attend and open to all, Thomas Paine Lecture Theatre. All details can be found on the UEA…
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Philosophy Public Lecture Series 2018 – Apocalypses Now?
Philosophy Public Lecture Series 2018 – Apocalypses Now? is a series of five lectures between Tuesday 16 Jan and Tuesday 13 March. They are free to attend and open to all,…
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