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Professor of Technology Sarah Williams outlines how to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression.

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Video games are primed for change: roughly half of all players identify as female. Games themselves need a creative platform-expanding, metaphysical explosion; feminism can make games better.

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Did you learn in school that the Greeks invented civilization? Do you believe that aliens built the pyramids? Stacy Hackner discusses a few ways in which a common conception of the past doesn’t add up, why we’ve come to think of history in this biased way, and how we can continue to question and correct these misunderstandings.

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Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: what can the West do about it? Nina Jankowicz reveals all.

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Geoffrey Robertson QC, who defended the last blasphemy cases in the UK – against Gay News and The Satanic Verses - recalls the struggle to abolish the blasphemy law and looks forward to the struggle to disestablish the Church of England before the coronation of Charles III.

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Lisa Morton investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer’s Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism – when Victorians were entranced by mediums and the seance was born.

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A panel discussion from UCL Climate Action Society about the disproportionate vulnerabilities and health burdens of climate change.

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To understand the role of AI better, UCL’s Centre for Artificial Intelligence explore why and how AI can be useful to make and measure progress towards sustainable development.

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In this talk, Dr Kezia Barker from Birkbeck, University of London, explores the practice of 'Preppers', asking whether we have been offered a glimpse of an apocalypse to come.

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The Centre of Innovation Management Research at Birkbeck reflects on the experience of Covid-19 in its different phases, from lockdown to a new start, looking at how innovation processes, modes and practices have evolved.

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As we increasingly come to inhabit cities, researchers from Birkbeck, Kings College and UCL set out some ideas for what our urban futures may look and feel like, featuring case studies from around the world.

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Dr Lorenzo Lotti from the UCL Energy Institute investigates the evidence and main findings of recent behavioural economics.

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Presented by Headway East London, brain injury survivors talk about the unexpected opportunities and futures a more digital-based society offers them. How can we ensure that the new ‘normal’ works for the neurodiverse? And what emerging practices and arrangements might hold the key to a more accessible future?

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Heart n Soul at The Hub is a research project led by people with and without learning disabilities and autistic people, exploring the value of difference and challenging what is ‘normal’.

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Sustainable fashion trailblazer, Ms Tammam, takes you through her journey to creating a sustainable couture fashion label and her vision for the future of fashion, with an opportunity for a Q&A with the artist.

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Some of the boldest and bravest voices, including academics, artists and scientists, bring the latest thinking to Conway Hall with a two-day hub exploring visions of the future.

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Join engineers and scientists from the UCL Centre for Medical Image Computing to explore visionary new methods that help save lives.

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Jack Shenker takes us on a journey across Britain to uncover the root causes of our current crisis - and the struggles being waged for our future. Drawing on exceptional access to grassroots movements and rebellious communities, Jack introduces us to the citizens and leaders of tomorrow.

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Vaughn Scribner traces the long history of mermaids and mermen from film to philosophy, church halls to coffee houses, ancient myth to modern science, Scribner shows that mermaids and tritons are – and always have been – everywhere.

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There is a Britain that exists outside of the official histories and guidebooks - places that lie on the margins, left behind. A Britain in the cracks of the urban facade where unexpected life can flourish. Welcome to Unofficial Britain.

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A beguiling alternative view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing – of being – articulated by pathfinding women.

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Heidi Blake tells the untold story exposing the Kremlin’s assassination campaign as part of Putin’s ruthless pursuit of global dominance-and reveals why Western governments have failed to stop the bloodshed.

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Editor of politics.co.uk Ian Dunt takes stock of the post-Coronavirus world and asks if maybe, with a bit of luck, we're seeing the end of the nationalist uprising.

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