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(More) Academic heavyweights come to Bloomsbury – the New College of the Humanities
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), […]
Steven Pinker @ British Library
March 20, 2011
Steven Pinker, cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author of books including The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, spoke on “How the Minds of English Speakers Changed the English Language” at the British Library, 10th January 2011. The podcast is unavailable but for a similar lecture, see the video below. Photos by Sven Klinge […]
London Bytes
- View of the week: Alien doppelgänger March 28, 2013 Belinda
- Noam Chomsky @ British Library March 27, 2013 Belinda
- View of the week: Lichtenstein @ Tate Modern March 12, 2013 Belinda
June 5, 2011
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