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RSA Public Events that were held from September 2010 to August 2011. Event Title Speaker 1 Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Speaker 5 Speaker 6 Speaker 7 Event date Event place Event description Audio Available Selected: Why some lead, Professor van Vugt, Taylor, Matthew 2010.09.02 RSA, London What makes a good or bad leader, why are Yes. Please contact others follow and why it Mark (speaker, (speaker, male; some people followers, and what are the the British Library’s matters male) Chair) benefits of each? Professor Mark van Vugt Drama and discusses how the evolution of leadership Literature affects us all, in both our personal and Recordings section. professional lives. Based on the publication Email: [email protected] of Selected, by Mark van Vugt and Anjana Telephone: (0)20 Ahuja. 7412 7552

23 Things They Don't Tell Chang, HaJoon Elliot, Larry 2010.09.02 RSA, London Development economics expert Ha-Joon Yes. Please contact You About Capitalism (speaker, male) (speaker, male; Chang visits the RSA to dispel the myths and the British Library’s Chair) prejudices that have come to dominate our Drama and understanding of how the world works. Literature Contrary to popular belief, Chang argues that Recordings section. companies should not be run in the interest Email: [email protected] of their owners and that financial markets Telephone: (0)20 need to become less, not more, efficient. 7412 7552

The Artificial Ape Dr Taylor, Timothy Kuper, Adam 2010.09.09 RSA, London Timothy Taylor traces our relationship with Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, male; artefact and technology, from the Venus of the British Library’s Chair) Willendorf to Anthony Gormley, referencing a Drama and huge range of culture and scholarship, Literature casting a critical and surprising light on what Recordings section. is currently happening to our bodies and Email: [email protected] minds - why they are progressively and Telephone: (0)20 inevitably weakening, and why it may not 7412 7552 ultimately matter.

Mindfulness: The key to a Dr Heaversedge, Halliwell, Ed Parks, Tim (speaker, Dr Rowson, 2010.09.09 RSA, London Mindfulness-based therapies have been Yes. Please contact healthier society? Jonty (speaker, (speaker, male) male) Jonathan (speaker, proven to greatly diminish the rates of the British Library’s male) male; Chair) depression and anxiety-related illnesses, and Drama and also have surprising effects on physical Literature ailments such as chronic pain, HIV and Recordings section. cancer. So why is mindfulness still popularly Email: [email protected] dismissed as a placebo, a solely mystical Telephone: (0)20 practice, or a touchy-feely relic from the 70s? 7412 7552 Is there any truth to these claims, and what do the experts really make of its rehabilitative powers? Could this timeless practice be a timely solution for society's woes, or is mindfulness yet another health fad marketing itself as a panacea? The RSA/ BBC Two School Professor Wiliam, Young, Toby Blue, Amanda Sir Atkinson, Taylor, Matthew 2010.09.13 RSA, London In September 2010, BBC Two presented a Yes. Please contact Season Debate - Asking the Dylan (speaker, (speaker, male) (speaker, female) William (speaker, (speaker, male; major season on education, focusing on our the British Library’s right questions male) male) Chair) schools, the tough choices parents have to Drama and make and whether we could all do better. The Literature RSA and the BBC held a debate on Monday Recordings section. 13 September to explore the issues further Email: [email protected] and to ask - where next for our children’s Telephone: (0)20 education? 7412 7552

The End of Discovery Stannard, Russell Ferry, Georgina 2010.09.16 RSA, London Author and broadcaster Russell Stannard, Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, female; himself a high-energy physicist and former the British Library’s Chair) Head of the Department of Physics and Drama and Astronomy at the Open University, asks the Literature deepest questions facing us today - Recordings section. questions about consciousness, free will, the Email: [email protected] nature of space, time, and matter, the Telephone: (0)20 existence of extraterrestrial life, and why there 7412 7552 should be a world at all.

Transforming the Energy Laidlaw, Sam Lord Turner Harding, James 2010.09.16 RSA, London Sam Laidlaw, CEO of Centrica plc, the UK’s Yes. Please contact Sector – The Future of (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male; largest energy company and parent of British the British Library’s Energy Companies in a Low Chair) Gas, gives a keynote address on how the Drama and Carbon World energy sector needs to transform to meet the Literature low carbon challenge while maintaining Recordings section. security of supply. Meeting these challenges Email: [email protected] will also require a transformation in Britain’s Telephone: (0)20 homes, becoming more energy efficient, 7412 7552 energy smart, and generating their own energy. To achieve this will require a fundamental shift in energy company’s business models, turning from being suppliers of energy that is consumed to suppliers of energy services which manage consumption The Solitary Self Midgley, Mary Taylor, Matthew 2010.09.20 RSA, London Mary Midgley argues that the reductive Yes. Please contact (speaker, female) (speaker, male; individualism which is now presented as the British Library’s Chair) Darwinism comes, not from Darwin’s Drama and evolutionary theory but from a wider tradition Literature in Enlightenment thinking. Moving away from Recordings section. the notion of heroic independence and self- Email: [email protected] directed individualism, Midgley instead Telephone: (0)20 suggests that we are framed to interact 7412 7552 constantly with one another in societies and the complex ecosystems of which we are a tiny part.

RSA Events www.theRSA.org/events [email protected] 020 7451 6868 RSA Public Events that were held from September 2010 to August 2011. Event Title Speaker 1 Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Speaker 5 Speaker 6 Speaker 7 Event date Event place Event description Audio Available After New Atheism: Where Robinson, Marilynne Scruton, Roger Rée, Jonathan Taylor, Laurie 2010.09.21 RSA, London Since the publication of 'The God Delusion' in Yes. Please contact now for the God debate? (speaker, female) (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male; 2006, the debate over the role of religion in the British Library’s Chair) society has become dominated by the so- Drama and called New Atheists - Dawkins, Hitchens, Literature Grayling - and the frequently defensive Recordings section. responses from those trying to defend faith Email: [email protected] from an attack they claim to be crude and Telephone: (0)20 simplistic. The arguments have often been 7412 7552 entertaining, but have we learnt anything? Whatever your take on God is it time the debate moved forward and took a different tone?A panel of expert commentators discuss the future of the God debate. The Way We Were: Britain Sandbrook, Dominic Campbell, Emily 2010.09.23 RSA, London Celebrated historian Dominic Sandbrook Yes. Please contact at the Start of the Seventies (speaker, male) (speaker, female; recreates the gaudy, schizophrenic the British Library’s Chair) atmosphere of the early Seventies: the world Drama and of Enoch Powell and Tony Benn, David Literature Bowie and Brian Clough, Germaine Greer Recordings section. and Mary Whitehouse. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The Morality of Charity Brookes, Martin Piper, Anne-Marie Easton, Mark 2010.09.29 RSA, London Martin Brookes, chief executive of New Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, female) (speaker, male; Philanthropy Capital, discusses whether we the British Library’s Chair) should grade 'public benefit' in a similar way Drama and to hospitals or schools, based on a clearer Literature definition of 'public benefit' from the Charity Recordings section. Commission. Could we then hold donors to Email: [email protected] account for their giving? Would that be a Telephone: (0)20 good thing? 7412 7552

Pathfinders: The golden age Al-Khalili, Jim 2010.09.30 RSA, London Jim Al-Khalili has long championed the Yes. Please contact of Arabic science (speaker, male) influence of Islam on science and he visits the the British Library’s RSA to bring renewed attention to the Drama and considerable Arab influence in our Literature understanding of science today. He argues Recordings section. that the West needs to see the Islamic world Email: [email protected] through new eyes and the Islamic world, in Telephone: (0)20 turn, to take pride in its extraordinarily rich 7412 7552 heritage.

The Future of Business and Geoghegan, Dixon, Hugo 2010.10.04 RSA, London Michael Geoghegan, CEO of the UK's largest Yes. Please contact Banking: Is the West getting Michael (speaker, (speaker, male; listed company, has recently left London to the British Library’s left behind? male) Chair) run the group from Hong Kong. He has also Drama and just returned from visiting 26 countries over Literature 15 working days. With every journey, Michael Recordings section. is more convinced that the world's centre of Email: [email protected] gravity is moving steadily East and South and Telephone: (0)20 he joins us to share his thoughts on what this 7412 7552 means for the future for business and banking. Discussing the trends and prospects he is seeing in each of the world's regions, from Africa to Asia, he also asks what the West needs to do to avoid getting left behind.

Them and Us: Why we need Hutton, Will Taylor, Matthew 2010.10.07 RSA, London The suddenness and depth of the recession Yes. Please contact a fair society (speaker, male) (speaker, male; has raised questions about the workability of the British Library’s Chair) capitalism not seen since the 1930s. One of Drama and the constraints on recovery is the growing Literature belief that if the old model did not work there Recordings section. is no new one on offer. Renowned Email: [email protected] commentator and Chief Executive of the Telephone: (0)20 Work Foundation Will Hutton sets out to 7412 7552 provide one, arguing that reconstructing a bust financial system is not just a technical question - it cannot be done without a wholescale revision of the wider system and fundamental ideals on which it is based. And fairness and equality must be placed at the heart of the new capitalism if our society is to recover its values and principles.

The Verdict-Did Labour Toynbee, Polly Walker, David Williams, Shirley Taylor, Matthew 2010.10.07 RSA, London Why did social mobility slow down on Yes. Please contact Change Britain? (speaker, female) (speaker, male) (speaker, female) (speaker, male; Labour's watch? Has SureStart improved the the British Library’s Chair) prospects of tomorrow's children? Did Drama and Labour policies worsen the recession? Does Literature politics ever actually change anything? Polly Recordings section. Toynbee and David Walker analyse Labour's Email: [email protected] longest term in office, and debate the role of Telephone: (0)20 politics in public life with a panel of expert 7412 7552 commentators.

What is Development For? Storkey, Elaine Taylor, Matthew Vallely, Paul Trivedy, Roy Montague, Sarah 2010.10.13 RSA, London Cafod, Tear Fund and the public theology Yes. Please contact (speaker, female) (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, female; think tank Theos launched a new report: the British Library’s Chair) Wholly Living: a new perspective on Drama and international development, and the RSA Literature gathered a panel of expert commentators to Recordings section. debate: what is development for? Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

A Call for Judgement Bhide, Amir Professor Kay, John 2010.10.14 RSA, London Renowned economist Amar Bhidé explains Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, male; how bad theories and mis-regulation have the British Library’s Chair) caused a dangerous divergence between the Drama and real economy and finance. Bhidé takes apart Literature the so-called advances in modern finance, Recordings section. showing how backward-looking, top-down Email: [email protected] models were used to mass-produce toxic Telephone: (0)20 products. Thanks to excessively tight 7412 7552 securities laws and loose banking laws, anonymous transactions have displaced relationship-based finance.

The craft so long to lerne: Hayes MP, John Taylor, Matthew 2010.10.26 RSA, London John Hayes MP, Minister of State for Further Yes. Please contact Skills and their Place in (speaker, male) (speaker, male; Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning talks the British Library’s Modern Britain Chair) about the need to continue to promote the Drama and teaching and learning of practical skills even Literature at a time of reduced Government spending Recordings section. and about his ambition to raise the social and Email: [email protected] economic status of crafts and those who Telephone: (0)20 practise them. 7412 7552

The Big Society: Challenges Taylor, Matthew Sir Etherington, Dame Reynolds Bunting, Madeleine 2010.10.26 RSA, London RSA Chief Executive Matthew Taylor explores Yes. Please contact and opportunities for (speaker, male) Stuart (speaker, DBE, Fiona (speaker, female; ways of driving real change for members and the British Library’s membership organisations male) (speaker, female) Chair) membership organisations, with a focus on Drama and RSA initiatives. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The Future of Mobile Epting, Lee (speake, Simon, Ralph Lindholm, Christian Johnson, Luke 2010.10.27 RSA, London Lee draws upon her experience at the Yes. Please contact female) (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male; leading edge of mobile technology innovation the British Library’s Chair) to give an insight into what the next few years Drama and may bring in terms of new products and Literature practices, new opportunities for creativity, Recordings section. collaboration and economic growth, the role Email: [email protected] of new communications in shaping social Telephone: (0)20 norms and behaviours, and the effect this will 7412 7552 have on individuals, organisations and societies. Meltdown: The end of the Mason, Paul Taylor, Matthew 2010.10.28 RSA, London The BBC's Paul Mason delivers a gripping Yes. Please contact age of greed (speaker, male) (speaker, male; account of the financial collapse that the British Library’s Chair) destroyed the West's investment banks, Drama and brought the global economy to its knees, and Literature undermined three decades of neoliberal Recordings section. orthodoxy. Covering the development of the Email: [email protected] crisis from the economic front line, Paul Telephone: (0)20 Mason explores the roots of the US and UK's 7412 7552 financial hubris, documenting the real-world causes and consequences from the Ford factory, to Wall Street, to the City of London. How did the credit crunch became a full- blown financial crisis, and what is its impact on capitalist ideology and politics?

Why the West Rules - For Morris, Ian (speaker, Taylor, Matthew 2010.11.01 RSA, London Ian Morris argues for the crucial importance Yes. Please contact Now male) (speaker, male; of a deep and multi-disciplinary the British Library’s Chair) understanding of the whole story of human Drama and civilisation - and especially the interplay of Literature geography and human ingenuity - if we are to Recordings section. meet the challenges we now face in the Email: [email protected] context of new crises of resources, disease, Telephone: (0)20 climate and migration. 7412 7552

Why Rights Aren’t Wrong Atkinson, Maggie Taylor, Matthew 2010.11.02 RSA, London As we approach the 21st anniversary of the Yes. Please contact (speaker, female) (speaker, male; UK becoming a signatory to the United the British Library’s Chair) Nations Convention on the Rights of the Drama and Child, Maggie Atkinson explains why the Literature UNCRC remains as relevant today as it has Recordings section. always done. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Where Do Good Ideas Johnson, Steven Taylor, Matthew 2010.11.02 RSA, London Where do good ideas come from? And what Yes. Please contact Come From? (speaker, male) (speaker, male; do we need to know and do to have more of the British Library’s Chair) them? Steven Johnson, one of our most Drama and innovative popular thinkers, explores the Literature secrets of inspiration. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Cutting It: ‘Big Society’ and Coote, Anna Olliff-Cooper, Jonty Butler, Patrick Easton, Mark 2010.11.04 RSA, London Anna Coote, head of social policy at nef and Yes. Please contact the new austerity (speaker, female0 (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male; author of “Ten Questions about the Big the British Library’s Chair) Society” and a panel of experts debate the Drama and Big Society, social justice and the new Literature austerity. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Freedom through Design Constantine, David Jones, Amanda 2010.11.04 RSA, London David explains how sustainable design Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, female; concepts can be used to address the mobility the British Library’s Chair) of disabled people, as well as enhancing their Drama and social and economic rehabilitation. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

An African Answer Dr Channer, Alan Ashafa, Imam Pastor Wuye, James Dr Karam, Imad Sir Jolly, Richard 2010.11.09 RSA, London Question and Answer session following the Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) Muhammad (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male; UK premiere screening at the RSA of An the British Library’s (speaker, male) Chair African Answer, which depicts the struggle to Drama and bring reconciliation in Kenya’s Rift Valley Literature Province after the post-election violence of Recordings section. 2008, when around 1000 people were killed Email: [email protected] and tens of thousands displaced from their Telephone: (0)20 homes and farms. 7412 7552

Africa 2050: Will Africa Dr Goldin, Ian Russell, Alec 2010.11.10 RSA, London Leading global futurist, and former Vice Yes. Please contact claim the 21st century? (speaker, male) (speaker, male; President of the World Bank, Dr Ian Goldin the British Library’s Chair) looks at the future prospects for Africa and Drama and address a range of key factors which will Literature shape its future course – such as climate Recordings section. change, medical advances and technological Email: [email protected] progress. Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Beyond Fiscal Fables and Johnson MP, Alan Taylor, Matthew 2010.11.11 RSA, London Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson MP Yes. Please contact Greek Myths – the honest (speaker, male) (speaker, male; discusses the circumstances that led to the the British Library’s debate about our economic Chair) creation of the budget deficit. He will correct Drama and future a number of powerful myths in circulation Literature about the specific circumstances of the Recordings section. British economy at the time. He will also Email: [email protected] argue that while it must remain the priority of Telephone: (0)20 the government to tackle the deficit this can 7412 7552 be done in a way that is fairer and less damaging to the long term needs of the economy. The Return of the Public Hind, Dan (speaker, Taylor, Matthew 2010.11.11 RSA, London Author and journalist Dan Hind investigates Yes. Please contact male) (speaker, male; the public's exclusion from political the British Library’s Chair) participation. He argues that the financial Drama and crisis, and the ability of those who caused it Literature to preside over policy-making in its aftermath, Recordings section. have made it impossible to ignore what has Email: [email protected] long been obvious: the institutions on which Telephone: (0)20 most of us rely for our knowledge of the wider 7412 7552 world have become radically and demonstrably unaccountable and unsafe. For decades, the public has been told to leave democracy to the experts. Now, Hind outlines a way forwards for a new participator politics, one based on the wholesale reform of the media.

The Divided Brain and the McGilchrist, Iain Dr Rowson, 2010.11.17 RSA, London Renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain Yes. Please contact Making of the Western (speaker, male) Jonathan (speaker, McGilchrist explains how the ‘divided brain’ the British Library’s World male; Chair) has profoundly altered human behaviour, Drama and culture and society. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Does politics need more Baroness Warnock, Warburton, Nigel Crabtree, James Gardiner, Barry Edmonds, David 2010.11.18 RSA, London A panel of experts ask – do we need more Yes. Please contact philosophy? Mary (speaker, (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male; philosophy in public life? the British Library’s female) Chair) Drama and Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Building Better Communities McAslan, John Hutton, Will 2010.11.24 RSA, London Architect John McAslan demonstrates the Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, male; power architecture has to lift living standards the British Library’s Chair) and engage communities, with a focus on Drama and reconstruction projects in deprived countries. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

How Intelligence Happens Professor Duncan, Dr Rowson, 2010.11.25 RSA, London Professor John Duncan FRS, a scientist who Yes. Please contact John (speaker, Jonathan (speaker, has spent thirty years studying the human the British Library’s male) male; Chair) brain, elaborates on the story of the hunt for Drama and basic principles of human intelligence, Literature behaviour and thought. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The Hidden History of the McLean, Bethany Mason, Paul 2010.12.02 RSA, London Bethany McLean, co-author of the The Yes. Please contact Financial Crisis (speaker, female) (speaker, male; Smartest Guys in the Room, tells the hidden the British Library’s Chair) history of the financial crisis, exploring the Drama and motivations of everyone from famous CEOs, Literature cabinet secretaries, and politicians to Recordings section. anonymous lenders, borrowers, analysts, and Email: [email protected] Wall Street traders. Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Changing the World: Professor Israel, Taylor, Matthew 2010.12.07 RSA, London RSA Benjamin Franklin Medal Lecture. The Yes. Please contact Enlightenment and Basic Jonathan (speaker, (speaker, male; concept of human rights plays a crucial role the British Library’s Human Rights male) Chair) in today's world; not just in international Drama and relations but in our core moral and legislative Literature values. But although the idea of human rights Recordings section. came directly out of the Radical Email: [email protected] Enlightenment, why does society in the West Telephone: (0)20 continue to have such grave reservations 7412 7552 about its source?

Is 50% too much? Access Atherton, Graeme Wain, Ryan Professor Philpott, Mitchell, Peter Francis, Becky 2010.12.09 RSA, London Panel discussion - Should we be radically Yes. Please contact to higher education in an (speaker, male) (speaker, male) John (speaker, (speaker, male) (speaker, female; rethinking access to higher education - how the British Library’s age of austerity male) Chair) many should go, who should pay and how Drama and much? Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The Big Society: the Norman MP, Jesse Thornton, Andy Hasan, Mehdi De Groot, Lucy Collins, Phil 2010.12.09 RSA, London Jesse Norman MP and an expert panel Yes. Please contact Anatomy of the New Politics (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, female) (speaker, male; explore the Big Society's roots in neglected the British Library’s Chair) British intellectual and social traditions, and Drama and ask: what are the implications for politicians, Literature economists, those in the public services - and Recordings section. the voting public? Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

You Need Friends Deller, Jeremy Taylor, Matthew 2010.12.13 RSA, London RSA Albert Medal Lecture. Jeremy Deller Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, male; presents ‘You Need Friends’, an account of the British Library’s Chair) how he came to generate innovative art that Drama and draws together popular forms of art and Literature engagement. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Martha Nussbaum on 21st Nussbaum, Martha Taylor, Matthew 2010.12.16 RSA, London Matthew Taylor and Martha Nussbaum Yes. Please contact Century Enlightenment (speaker, female) (speaker, male; explore the value of a concept such as 21st the British Library’s Chair) century enlightenment, and discuss ways in Drama and which the set of attitudes, values and Literature practices it implies could help more of us Recordings section. lead the good life in the good society. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

How to Become Slightly Burkeman, Oliver Dr Rowson, 2011.01.13 RSA, London Journalist Oliver Burkeman attempts to solve Yes. Please contact Happier (speaker, male) Jonathan (speaker, the problem of human happiness. the British Library’s male; Chair) Drama and Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The Government’s Cameron MP, David 2011.01.17 RSA, London The Rt Hon David Cameron MP, sets out the Yes. Please contact Programme for Modern (speaker, male) Government's programme for modern public the British Library’s Public Services services - creating better schools and Drama and hospitals. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Eating Animals Safran Foer, van der Zee, Bibi 2011.01.17 RSA, London Award-winning novelist Jonathan Safran Foer Yes. Please contact Jonathan (speaker, (speaker, female; challenges us to face some uncomfortable the British Library’s male) Chair) facts about our eating habits, and probes Drama and some of our fundamental instincts about right Literature and wrong. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Childhood and Child Narey, Martin Sir Gieve, John 2011.01.19 RSA, London Martin Narey delivers his final speech as Yes. Please contact Poverty: The UK's moral and (speaker, male) (speaker, male; Chief Executive of Barnardo's, emphasising the British Library’s economic challeng Chair) the need for greater equality of opportunity Drama and for all children. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The Future of WikiLeaks Morozov, Evgeny Beckett, Charlie 2011.01.20 RSA, London n the wake of "cable-gate", Evgeny Morozov Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, male; considers a future when WikiLeaks-style the British Library’s Chair) organisations could be useful allies of the Drama and West. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Whatever has become of Ringen, Stein Goldsmith MP, Zac Hodge MP, Booth, Fiona 2011.01.26 RSA, London The RSA and the Hansard Society bring Yes. Please contact the Mother of All (speaker, male) (speaker, male) Margaret (speaker, (speaker, female; together an expert panel to debate how the British Library’s Parliaments? female) Chair) governments rule, and how this could Drama and change. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The Meaning of Life's Roland Smith, Dr Rowson, 2011.01.27 RSA, London From birth to death, and beyond, history's Yes. Please contact Milestones Robert (speaker, Jonathan (speaker, greatest thinkers have meditated on the the British Library’s male) male; Chair) meaning behind the landmark events that Drama and shape our lives. Acclaimed popular Literature philosopher Robert Rowland Smith discusses Recordings section. learning from Aristotle about starting school, Email: [email protected] from St Paul about falling in love, and from Telephone: (0)20 Nietzsche about having a mid-life crisis. 7412 7552

The Haves and the Have- Milanovic, Branko Pickett, Kate 2011.02.01 RSA, London Branko Milanovic, one of the world's leading Yes. Please contact Nots (speaker, male) (speaker, female; experts on global inequality, tells the story of the British Library’s Chair) wealth and poverty in a wholly innovative way. Drama and Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

A New Capitalism for a Big Bishop, Matthew Green, Michael Flanders, Stephanie 2011.02.01 RSA, London Sir Peter Baldwin Memorial Event. Matthew Yes. Please contact Society (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, female; Bishop and Michael Green look at the the British Library’s Chair) lessons to be learned from the economic Drama and crisis and set out an economic reform Literature agenda for the Coalition government. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The Rise of Collaborative Botsman, Rachel Dudman, Jane 2011.02.02 RSA, London Social innovator Rachel Botsman charts the Yes. Please contact Consumption (speaker, female) (speaker, female; growth of a movement that is transforming the British Library’s Chair) the way we consume and contribute. Drama and Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

On Nations and Nationhood Sand, Shlomo Hollis, Rosemary 2011.02.10 RSA, London The best-selling writer and academic Shlomo Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, female; Sand asks what constitutes the national the British Library’s Chair) identity of a body of people, and interrogates Drama and the foundations of nationhood, arguing that a Literature nation is not based upon race, religion, or Recordings section. language. The author of the controversial Email: [email protected] 'The Invention of the Jewish People', Sand Telephone: (0)20 explains how the idea of the ‘invention’ of 7412 7552 nationhood has played out in the national projects of Israel and Palestine.

Science and the Strange Gray, John Self, Will (speaker, 2011.02.10 RSA, London An obsession with the nature of death lies at Yes. Please contact Quest to Cheat Death (speaker, male) male; Chair) the heart of the human experience, but have the British Library’s the technological advances and scientific Drama and discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries Literature led us to believe we can somehow cheat it? Recordings section. John Gray and Will Self discuss the great Email: [email protected] implication of Darwin’s ideas - that natural Telephone: (0)20 selection makes humans into animals like any 7412 7552 other.

The Inevitability of Polemical Hitchens, Peter Jordan, David Lloyd, John 2011.02.17 RSA, London A panel of expert commentators debate the Yes. Please contact Broadcasting: the Foxes are (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male; coming age of polemical broadcasting. the British Library’s Coming Chair) Drama and Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Is there a place for God in Canon Dr Ann Holt Copson, Andrew Dr Miller, Joyce Professor Cooling, Dr Mukadam, McDonald, Sheena 2011.02.23 RSA, London What is the purpose of education? And how Yes. Please contact Education? OBE (speaker, (speaker, male) (speaker, female) Trevor (speaker, Mohamed (speaker, (speaker, female) does religious belief relate to that? A panel of the British Library’s female) male) male) expert commentators debate these crucial Drama and questions and the range of related issues Literature considered in a recent Theos report - Doing Recordings section. God in Education. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Carrots and Sticks: Professor Ayres, Ian Taylor, Matthew 2011.02.24 RSA, London Best-selling author, lawyer and economist Yes. Please contact Unlocking the power of (speaker, male) (speaker, male; Professor Ian Ayres reveals the fascinating the British Library’s incentives Chair) new science of rewards and punishments — Drama and and explains how best to help people and Literature organisations meet their personal and Recordings section. professional goals. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

IP for Innovation and Professor Hunter, Sarah Howkins, John Juden, Simon Wenham, Alison Dame Taylor, Matthew 2011.03.02 RSA, London An expert panel consider how the Yes. Please contact Growth Hargreaves, Ian (speaker, female) (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (sepaker, female) Brindley DBE, (speaker, male; Independent Review of IP and Growth, led by the British Library’s (speaker, male) Lynne (speaker, Chair) Professor Ian Hargreaves, might help the UK Drama and female) develop a technology neutral IP Framework Literature which will drive innovation and growth by Recordings section. serving consumer-led markets, technology Email: [email protected] companies, and research and education, as Telephone: (0)20 well as the creative industries. 7412 7552

The Death of the English Hemming, Henry Aslet, Clive Taylor, Matthew 2011.03.03 RSA, London Henry Hemming debates community and the Yes. Please contact Village? (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male; future of the English village with Clive Aslet, the British Library’s Chair) editor-at-large, Country Life. Drama and Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Civilisation: Is the West Ferguson, Niall Guru-Murthy, 2011.03.03 RSA, London Historian Niall Ferguson explores the Yes. Please contact history? (speaker, male) Krishnan (speaker, changing global balance of power, with the British Library’s male; Chair) exclusive excerpts from his new Channel 4 Drama and series ‘Civilisation’. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

An Intelligent Earth? The Flannery, Tim O’Hanlon, 2011.03.09 RSA, London Redmond O’Hanlon joins Tim Flannery in a Yes. Please contact Future of Species (speaker, male) Redmond (speaker, conversation about Flannery's new book Here the British Library’s male) on Earth: A New Beginning (Allen Lane, Drama and March 2011). The two writer-explorers will Literature discuss the power of storytelling to illuminate Recordings section. our part in the future of all life on this planet. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Timebanking: Your Money or Simon, Martin Taylor, Matthew 2011.03.10 RSA, London Martin Simon argues that the timebanking Yes. Please contact Your Life – or Both? (speaker, male) (speaker, male; movement, which links people locally to share the British Library’s Chair) time and skills, has a key role to play in Drama and building more resilient and caring social Literature networks. Could time-based currency Recordings section. initiatives, which unleash hidden resources Email: [email protected] and harness the power of social media, Telephone: (0)20 provide the right frameworks and incentives 7412 7552 for healthier, stronger, more co-operative communities?

The Rise and Fall of Professor Wu, Chatfield, Tom 2011.03.16 RSA, London Leading technological historian Timothy Wu Yes. Please contact Information Empires Timothy (speaker, (speaker, male; exposes the battle for the soul of the internet. the British Library’s male) Chair) Drama and Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The Unfinished Global Malloch Brown, McDonald, Sheena 2011.03.16 RSA, London Mark Malloch Brown, ex-Deputy Secretary- Yes. Please contact Revolution Mark (speaker, (speaker, female; General of the UN, forecasts the way forward the British Library’s male) Chair) in global politics. Drama and Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Why Everyone (Else) is a Kurzban, Robert Taylor, Matthew 2011.03.17 RSA, London Leading evolutionary psychologist Robert Yes. Please contact Hypocrite (speaker, male) (speaker, male; Kurzban argues that there is no "I." Instead, the British Library’s Chair) each of us is a contentious "we"- a collection Drama and of discrete but interacting systems whose Literature constant conflicts shape our interactions with Recordings section. one another and our experience of the world. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Addiction: What to Do Alexander, Bruce Taylor, Matthew 2011.03.22 RSA, London Renowned psychologist Bruce Alexander Yes. Please contact When Everything Else has (speaker, male) (speaker, male; calls for a stronger recognition of the social the British Library’s Failed Chair) nature of our worsening global addiction Drama and problem. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The New North Smith, Laurence C Shukman, David 2011.03.23 RSA, London Laurence Smith explores the four forces that Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, male; are changing the world – climate change, the British Library’s chair) rising population, globalisation and resource Drama and depletion – and attempts to predict how they Literature will shape the world between now and 2050. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Twenty-first Century Ashuach, Assa Conran, Sebastian Harwood, Roland Hopkinson, Neil Aldersey-Williams, 2011.03.24 RSA, London An exploration of technological innovation in Yes. Please contact Manufacture (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male) Hugh (speaker, design and manufacturing and the rise of the the British Library’s male) user-maker. Drama and Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Where Will the Big Society Grossman, Loyd Nash, Chris Busch, Christian Douglas, Jonathan Gaventa, Sarah 2011.03.28 RSA, London Loyd Grossman, Chris Nash and Christian Yes. Please contact Happen? (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, female; Busch examine the role of architecture and the British Library’s Chair) the built environment in the context of the Big Drama and Society – how can buildings and other Literature facilities help to strengthen social cohesion Recordings section. and promote enterprise. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Does Ireland have a Future? Walsh, Maurice Cowley, Jason 2011.03.31 RSA, London In the wake of convulsive change and amidst Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, male; new economic and political crises, is Ireland the British Library’s Chair) in danger of returning to its past? Drama and Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Who’s Failing our Kids? Birbalsingh, D’Abbro, John Jane, Naomi Gernon, Michael Taylor, Matthew 2011.03.31 RSA, London An expert panel discuss why so many young Yes. Please contact Katherine (speaker, (speaker, male) (speaker, female) (speaker, male) (speaker, male; people are failing in school. the British Library’s female) Chair) Drama and Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Public Services and the Miliband, Ed Taylor, Matthew 2011.04.04 RSA, London The RSA welcomes the leader of the Labour Yes. Please contact Promise of Britain (speaker, male) (speaker, male) Party Ed Miliband who will speak about the the British Library’s future of public services. Drama and Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Supercooperators: The Nowak, Martin Highfield, Roger Dr Rowson, 2011.04.05 RSA, London Evolutionary biologist Martin Nowak explains Yes. Please contact mathematics of evolution, (speaker, male) (speaker, male) Jonathan (speaker, how cooperation and altruism fit into the the British Library’s altruism and human male; Chair) larger evolutionary puzzle. Drama and behaviour Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The Secret Life of the Strauch, Barbara Taylor, Matthew 2011.04.06 RSA, London New York Times health and science editor Yes. Please contact Grown-Up Brain (speaker, female) (speaker, male; Barbara Strauch reveals that the middle-aged the British Library’s Chair) brain is more flexible, more capable and more Drama and surprisingly talented than previously thought. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The End of Remembering Foer, Joshua Dr Rowson, 2011.04.06 RSA, London Journalist and memory champion Joshua Foer Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) Jonathan (speaker, asks: how will we adapt to a new culture the British Library’s male; Chair) where most memories are stored outside the Drama and brain? Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Modern Parenting: Policy, Asher, Rebecca Burgess, Adrienne O'Sullivan, Jack Taylor, Matthew 2011.04.07 RSA, London Rebecca Asher, Jack O'Sullivan, Adrienne Yes. Please contact politics and the illusion of (speaker, female) (speaker, female) (speaker, male) (speaker, male; Burgess and Matthew Taylor debate the the British Library’s equality Chair) government's new "flexible" parental leave Drama and policies and whether we need a more radical Literature approach if we want to raise our children Recordings section. fairly. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The Information Gleick, James MacDonald, Nico 2011.04.11 RSA, London Acclaimed journalist, author and biographer Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, male; James Gleick tells the story of how the British Library’s Chair) information became the modern era’s Drama and defining quality - the blood, the fuel, the vital Literature principle of our world. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The Great Disruption: How Gliding, Paul Wright, Martin 2011.04.13 RSA, London Paul Gilding argues that humanity's capacity Yes. Please contact humankind can thrive in the (speaker, male) (speaker, male; for compassion, innovation and resilience will the British Library’s 21st Century Chair) be required to meet the economic and Drama and environmental challenges facing us. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Faith 2.0: Religion and the Campbell Heidi Graystone, Andrew Brasher, Brenda Professor Cantoni, Rev Dr. Phillips, 2011.04.14 RSA, London The Tony Blair Faith Foundation, Durham Yes. Please contact Internet - Morning Session (speaker, female) (speaker, male) (speaker, female) Lorenzo (speaker, Peter (speaker, University and the RSA present a special one- the British Library’s male) male; Chair) day conference on the impact of the internet Drama and on religion and, in turn, the wider public Literature sphere. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Faith 2.0: Religion and the Murphy, Emma Turner, Ruth Burity, Joanildo 2011.04.14 RSA, London The Tony Blair Faith Foundation, Durham Yes. Please contact Internet - Morning Session (speaker, female) (speaker, female) (speaker, male) University and the RSA present a special one- the British Library’s day conference on the impact of the internet Drama and on religion and, in turn, the wider public Literature sphere. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Faith 2.0: Religion and the Jenkins, Simon Thumma, Scott Dawson, Lorne L Timms, Stephen Ambassador Diaz, Campbell Heidi 2011.04.14 RSA, London The Tony Blair Faith Foundation, Durham Yes. Please contact Internet - Morning Session (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male) Miguel (speaker, (speaker, female; University and the RSA present a special one- the British Library’s male) Chair) day conference on the impact of the internet Drama and on religion and, in turn, the wider public Literature sphere. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Faith 2.0: Religion and the Wybourne, 2011.04.14 RSA, London The Tony Blair Faith Foundation, Durham Yes. Please contact Internet - Afternoon Session Catherine (speaker, University and the RSA present a special one- the British Library’s female) day conference on the impact of the internet Drama and on religion and, in turn, the wider public Literature sphere. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Constraining Consumption Nair, Chandran Sir Tickell, Crispin 2011.04.18 RSA, London Chandran Nair argues that the Western Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, male; model of consumption-led economic growth the British Library’s chair) cannot be replicated in Asia with global Drama and resources under increased pressure Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Happiness: New Lessons Layard, Richard Marr, Andrew 2011.04.18 RSA, London Richard Layard and Andrew Marr discuss Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, male; whether the increase in policies on well- the British Library’s Chair) being in the last decade has as yet Drama and succeeded in bringing about a real change of Literature culture and priorities. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

A Defence of Humanity in Christian, Brian Neumark, Thomas 2011.05.04 RSA, London Brian Christian explores recent advances in Yes. Please contact the Age of the Computer (speaker, male) (speaker, male; artifical intelligence and reveals how the the British Library’s Chair) march of technology isn’t just changing how Drama and we live, it’s raising new questions about what Literature it means to be human. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The RSA/Hansard Society Dr Renwick, Alan Rentoul, John Colvile, Robert Fox, Ruth (speaker, 2011.05.05 RSA, London An expert panel reflect on a month of Yes. Please contact AV Debate (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male) female; Chair) relentless campaigning for the AV the British Library’s referendum and the implications for our Drama and national political culture. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The Future of Power Nye Jr, Joseph S., Taylor, Matthew 2011.05.10 RSA, London Joseph S. Nye, Jr, one of America's leading Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, male; policy intellectuals, and originator of the term the British Library’s Chair) ‘soft power’, looks at what has happened to Drama and American power from the time of Kennedy Literature and Khrushchev through to the present day. Recordings section. Politics has changed, and nuclear missiles, Email: [email protected] industrial capacity, men under arms, rows of Telephone: (0)20 tanks and having power over others has given 7412 7552 way to ‘smart power’ involving networks, connectedness, and power with others.

Hume at 300 Phillipson, Nicholas Dr Millican, Peter Taylor, Matthew 2011.05.12 RSA, London On the 300th anniversary of his birth, leading Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male; academics Nicholas Phillipson and Dr Peter the British Library’s Chair) Millican discuss the profound legacy and Drama and game-changing implications of David Hume’s Literature thought. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

UN Women: A new mandate Bachelet, Michelle May MP, Theresa Grasty, Jan Martinson, Jane 2011.05.16 RSA, London Michelle Bachelet launches UN Women in Yes. Please contact for gender equality (speaker, female) (speaker, female) (speaker, female) (speaker, female; the UK and outlines the organisation’s the British Library’s Chair) ambitious goals on gender equality and the Drama and empowerment of women. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

London and other Great Power, Anne Sir Hall, Peter Councillor Rogers, Ben 2011.05.17 RSA, London A debate on the legacy of Jane Jacobs’ Yes. Please contact American Cities 50 years on (speaker, female) (speaker, male) Greenhalgh, (speaker, male; landmark work on cities and the implications the British Library’s Stephen (speaker, Chair) of her insights for London today. Drama and male) Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The Social Animal Brooks, David Bunting, Madeleine 2011.05.19 RSA, London Acclaimed writer and New York Times Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, female; columnist David Brooks explores the new the British Library’s Chair) view of human nature being revealed by the Drama and latest insights from the cognitive sciences, Literature and the profound implications these have for Recordings section. our understanding of ourselves, our choices, Email: [email protected] our relationships, and our paths in life. Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

RSA/LBC 97.3 Debate - Hodge MP, Lilly, Peter (speaker, Taylor, Matthew Winder, Robert O'Brien, James 2011.05.23 RSA, London Panel discussion regarding whether it’s Yes. Please contact Can we ever have a grown- Margaret (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, male; possible to conduct a rational national the British Library’s up debate about female) Chair) conversation about immigration. Drama and immigration? Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Arrival City: How migration is Saunders, Doug Professor Keith, Kasriel, Emily 2011.05.31 RSA, London Journalist and author Douglas Saunders talks Yes. Please contact reshaping our world (speaker, male) Michael (speaker, (speaker, female; about migration and marginal urban spaces the British Library’s male) Chair) and the implications for the success of local, Drama and national and international economies. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Ethics and Public Life Wolff, Jonathan Taylor, Matthew 2011.05.31 RSA, London Philosopher Jonathan Wolff explores Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, male; problems and controversies in public policy the British Library’s Chair) and argues for a more ethical approach to Drama and decision-making. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Alone Together Professor Turkle, Krotoski, Aleks 2011.06.01 RSA, London MIT technology and society specialist Yes. Please contact Sherry (speaker, (speaker, male; Professor Sherry Turkle presents the results the British Library’s female) Chair) of a fifteen year exploration of the colossal Drama and impact technology has had on our lives and Literature communities. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Carl Jung – Legacy and Vernon, Mark Rowland Smith, Lachman, Gary 2011.06.02 RSA, London Philosopher and author Robert Rowland Yes. Please contact Influence (speaker, male; Robert (speaker, (speaker, male) Smith, philosopher Mark Vernon, and Jung the British Library’s Chair) male) biographer Gary Lachman reflect on Carl Drama and Jung’s legacy, 50 years after his death. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Adapt: Why success always Harford, Tim Johnson, Luke 2011.06.06 RSA, London Tim Harford discusses the principlen needed Yes. Please contact starts with failure (speaker, male) (speaker, male; in business and in life, to survive, innovate the British Library’s Chair) and prosper in a complex and ever-shifting Drama and world. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Enlightened Enterprise Taylor, Matthew Cheshire, Ian Coyle, Diana 2011.06.09 RSA, London In his annual lecture, RSA chief executive Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, female; Matthew Taylor builds on last year’s theme of the British Library’s Chair) 21st century enlightenment, to explore the Drama and role that business can and should play in Literature shaping people’s behaviour, and how it is that Recordings section. business can combine a strategy for Email: [email protected] competitive success with a commitment to Telephone: (0)20 social good. 7412 7552

Zero Degrees of Empathy Baron Cohen, Taylor, Matthew 2011.06.14 RSA, London Professor Simon Baron Cohen presents a Yes. Please contact Simon (speaker, (speaker, male; new way of understanding what it is that the British Library’s male) Chair) leads individuals down negative paths, and Drama and challenges all of us to consider replacing the Literature idea of evil with the idea of empathy-erosion. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The Economics of Good and Sedláček, Tomáš Topping, Stephen 2011.06.16 RSA, London What is the meaning and the point of Yes. Please contact Evil (speaker, male) (speaker, male; economics? Can we do ethically all that we the British Library’s Chair) can do technically? Former economic advisor Drama and to President Vaclav Havel, and one of the ‘5 Literature Hot Minds in Economics’, Tomas Sedlacek Recordings section. asks – does it pay to be good? Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Education for Uncertain Facer, Kerri Hine, Dougald Unsted, Carolyn Dr Hazlewood, Professor Francis, 2011.06.20 RSA, London As young people face an ever more uncertain Yes. Please contact Futures (speaker, female) (speaker, male) (speaker, female) Patrick (speaker, Becky (speaker, climate beyond education join our panel as the British Library’s male) female; Chair) they ask; can our educators afford not to Drama and become more radically futures-aware? Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The Filter Bubble: How the Pariser, Eli (speaker, Krotoski, Aleks 2011.06.23 RSA, London Pioneer in online campaigning Eli Pariser lays Yes. Please contact hidden web is shaping lives male) (speaker, male; bare the forces controlling our online lives the British Library’s Chair) and argues for a new vision of a freer web. Drama and Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

What is the Internet Doing Dr Howard Jones, Taylor, Matthew 2011.07.04 RSA, London RSA Nominet Trust Lecture. Dr Paul Howard Yes. Please contact to our Brains? Paul (speaker, male) (speaker, male; Jones assesses whether the latest scientific the British Library’s Chair) findings support popular fears about what Drama and technology is doing to us. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Neuromania? The Professor Tallis, Taylor, Matthew Aaronovitch, David 2011.07.05 RSA, London Philosopher and author Professor Raymond Yes. Please contact possibilities and pitfalls of Raymond (speaker, (speaker, male) (speaker, male; Tallis and RSA chief executive Matthew the British Library’s our fascination with brains male) Chair) Taylor debate the competing claims made for Drama and the ability of neuroscience to explain human Literature behaviour, culture and society. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Flourish Seligman, Martin Mulgan, Geoff 2011.07.06 RSA, London One of the world’s most influential Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, male; psychologists Martin Seligman calls for a the British Library’s Chair) reinvention of governance and education, and Drama and a revolution in our personal lives. Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

It Happened on the Way to Barcott, Rye Kasriel, Emily 2011.07.07 RSA, London Rye Barcott, former US marine and pioneer of Yes. Please contact War (speaker, male) (speaker, female; the participatory development movement, the British Library’s Chair) explores how to unlock the potential of even Drama and the most deprived communities and spark Literature change from within. Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

The Mad Men We Love to Mendelsohn, Nicola Delaney, Sam Lord Watson of Taylor, Matthew 2011.07.07 RSA, London The relationship between the advertising Yes. Please contact Hate: Our changing (speaker, female) (speaker, male) Richmond CBE (speaker, male; industry and ‘the consumer’ has changed the British Library’s relationship with advertising (speaker, male) Chair) significantly over the past 50 years. An expert Drama and panel will consider how and why the world of Literature Mad Men has been consigned to the history Recordings section. books. Is this the result of a more empowered Email: [email protected] public and shifting patterns of consumption in Telephone: (0)20 a fast-changing economic and 7412 7552 communications landscape? RSA Events www.theRSA.org/events [email protected] 020 7451 6868 RSA Public Events that were held from September 2010 to August 2011. Event Title Speaker 1 Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Speaker 5 Speaker 6 Speaker 7 Event date Event place Event description Audio Available Can the Government be Healey MP, John Dr Harris, Evan Dixon, Jennifer Dorrell MP, Stephen O'Brien, James 2011.07.11 RSA, London Shadow Health Secretary John Healey MP, Yes. Please contact trusted to reform the NHS? (speaker, male) (speaker, male) (speaker, female) (speaker, male) (speaker, male; Chair of the Health Select Committee the British Library’s Chair) Stephen Dorrell MP, Dr Evan Harris and Drama and Jennifer Dixon debate whether the NHS Literature needs to be reformed and, if so, are the Recordings section. current proposals the right ones? Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

Have the elites failed? Dr Spencer, Claire Rt Hon Macshane Harris, Tal (speaker, Makhlouf, Samer 2011.07.14 RSA, London An expert panel debates whether the best Yes. Please contact Lessons from the Arab (speaker, female) MP, Dennis male) (speaker, male) hope for peace in the Middle East lies with the British Library’s spring for Israel and (speaker, male) the grassroots rather than political elites. Drama and Palestine Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

We-First Capitalism Mainwaring, Simon Taylor, Matthew 2011.07.14 RSA, London Social brand specialist Simon Mainwaring Yes. Please contact (speaker, male) (speaker, male; explores how brands and consumers can use the British Library’s Chair) social media to build a better world. Drama and Literature Recordings section. Email: [email protected] Telephone: (0)20 7412 7552

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