Sir Paul Nurse, geneticist, Nobel Laureate, President of the Royal Society, and Director / Chief Executive of the Francis Crick Institute, spoke about his life and career with Professor A. C. Grayling at the Wellcome Collection on 22nd September 2011. The event was part of the Exchanges at the Frontier series, now in its third season, hosted… [Read more…]
June 10, 2011
Protesters disrupted an An evening with Richard Dawkins and P. Z. Myers on Thursday 9th June 2011 at the Institute of Education in Bloomsbury. The evening was organised by the British Humanist Association. Richard Dawkins (below) – evolutionary biologist, author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion, and former Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science - is arguably the best-known of the… [Read more…]
June 7, 2011
If it’s true that you haven’t had an authentic post-GFC London experience until you’ve been in the midst of a student protest, then I have finally qualified. What started, on the evening of 7th June 2011, as “The Arts in Britain”, a conversation at Foyles book store about the state of arts and humanities funding in… [Read more…]
June 5, 2011
I am very excited at the prospect of a new college coming to Bloomsbury, powered by a team of international, academic all-stars. The New College of the Humanities will be based at the University of London, and will have the wonderful A. C. Grayling presiding as Master of the College. Anthony Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College (University of London),… [Read more…]
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September 23, 2011
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