The Prospect list: June 2012

Several ways to celebrate June: debating democracy, rescuing America, and British photography
May 31, 2012
A scene from the Hay Festival, 2011 © Sarah Barton






Wednesday 6th

From judgement to atonement: sculpture at Strasbourg, Lincoln and Naumburg

Paul Crossley, Courtauld Institute

University of York, King’s Manor, York, 5.30pm, free, 01904 322622,

www.york.ac.uk

 


Sunday 10th

Is democracy right for the world’s current problems?

Andrew Gamble, David Runciman and Glen Rangwala, University of Cambridge

Hay Festival, Big Tent, Hay-on-Wye, 1pm, £5.25, 01497 822629,

www.hayfestival.com

 


Tuesday 12th

Does the sun cause climate change?

Lucie Green, solar scientist; Mark Maslin, paleoclimatologist

Cheltenham Science Festival, Town Hall, Imperial Square, Cheltenham, 12.45pm, £7, 08448 808094,

www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/science

 

Abolitionist experimentation in Sierra Leone: conflicting ideas and expectations

Suzanne Schwarz, WISE

Hull History Centre, Worship St, Hull, 12.30pm, free, 01482 305176,

www.hull.ac.uk

 


Wednesday 13th

Thomas Friedman: a manifesto for rescuing America

Thomas Friedman, columnist and author

The Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle St, W1, 7pm, £25, 020 7792 4830,

www.intelligencesquared.com

 

Thursday 14th

Island Stories: fifty years of photography in Britain

Martin Barnes, V&A

Sackler Centre, V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Rd, SW7, 1pm, free,

020 7942 2000, www.vam.ac.uk

 


Tuesday 19th

The potential infinite

Øystein Linnebo, Birkbeck

Clore Management Centre, 2 Malet St, Bloomsbury, WC1, 5pm, free,

020 7380 3109, www.bbk.ac.uk


 

Wednesday 20th

Poetry and faith

Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury; Fiona Sampson, poet

LSE, Old Theatre, Houghton St, WC2, 7pm, £10, 020 7845 4676, www.rslit.org

 


Thursday 21st

Thomas Becket: warrior, priest, rebel, victim

John Guy, historian

Ondaatje Wing Theatre, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Pl, London WC2, 1.15pm, free, 020 7306 0055, www.npg.org.uk

 

The long Earth

Terry Pratchett, author; Stephen Baxter, author; David Wallace, philosopher of physics

The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle St, W1, 7pm, £10,

020 7409 2992, www.rigb.org

 


Monday 25th

Winner take all: the race for the world’s resources

Dambisa Moyo, author and economist

LSE, Old Theatre, Houghton St, WC2, 6.30pm, free, 020 7955 6043,

www.lse.ac.uk

 

Wiltshire’s White Horses project

Micheal Morpurgo, author

Salisbury International Arts Festival, Oliver’s Castle, Wiltshire, 2pm, free, 08452 419651,

www.salisburyfestival.co.uk

 


Friday 29th

Eurasian renaissance: intellect, art and exchange

Felipe Fernández-Armesto, historian

British Library, 96 Euston Rd, NW1, 6.30pm, £7.50, 020 7412 7676,

www.bl.uk