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A young boy focuses intently on building a stick figure using a magnetic construction toy set made of colourful rods and metallic spheres on a wooden table

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Building with Magnets: The Mathematics of Repulsion and Attraction

Professor Alain Goriely FRS

Tue, 10 Nov 2026

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“A Mystery Still”: Historical (Trans) Gender Variance and James “Miranda” Barry

Professor Ann Heilmann

Tue, 10 Nov 2026

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Material Witness: Understanding the Objects of Auschwitz

Professor Zoë Waxman

Wed, 04 Nov 2026

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What History is NOT

Sathnam Sanghera

Tue, 03 Nov 2026

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UK
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Around the World with Indian Cinema

Dr Ranita Chatterjee

Wed, 28 Oct 2026

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Rethinking Deterrence for a Disrupted World

Vice Admiral (Retd) Sir Martin Connell KCB CBE

Tue, 27 Oct 2026

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Plato on Truth, Lies and Power

Professor Melissa Lane

Thu, 22 Oct 2026

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Why Is There Music?

Professor Milton Mermikides

Wed, 21 Oct 2026

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The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights

Professor Phillip Ayoub

Tue, 20 Oct 2026

Sexuality
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The Uses of Rhetoric, Past and Present

Professor Melissa Lane

Mon, 19 Oct 2026

Rhetoric
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