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28 Jun 2024: Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics

28 Jun 2024: A light- hearted discussion about positive thinking in bad times. Can positive thinking create its own momentum, or to put it another way, does negativity reap its own bad harvest? Esther-Miriam Wagner and Robert Tombs read the runes. Woolf

27 Dec 2022: See, Matthew Wilkinson, Genealogy of Terror: How to Distinguish between Islam, Islamism and Islamist Extremism (London: Routledge, 2018).

28 Jun 2024: Genocides, and why we as a species are capable of such things. The twentieth century was littered with genocides. Those in Armenia, Nazi Germany, Rwanda and Bosnia are the most notorious … Meryem Kalayci and James Smith discuss this most

28 Jun 2024: Many families in the UK open their homes to provide refuge for fleeing Ukrainians. What is the history and the future of sanctuary? The idea of sanctuary for the oppressed individual or for groups of people fleeing persecution or war is an ancient

28 Jun 2024: What makes for good collaborative thinking? "Group think" implies lazy, complacent decision making. But what about group thinking? That could imply collaboration, people getting together and coming up with a collective idea that’s better than the

28 Jun 2024: Whose genes are they anyway?

27 Jun 2024: Is diaspora community just a posh phrase for immigrant community? Diasporas are often born of misfortune, the experience of homelands left willingly because of lack of opportunity, or fled because of war. In the age after Empire, many subject

3 Oct 2022: Woolf Institute 2022/23 Annual Publication. Celebrating 25 years 1998 - 2023. Woolf Institute Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0UB. 44 (0)1223 761984. enquiries@woolf.cam.ac.uk l www.woolf.cam.ac.ukCharity No: 1069589 l Company No: 3540878. Woolf

28 Jun 2024: Are we reaching a tipping point in our attitudes towards racial inequality? When George Floyd’s brutal killing was captured on video, Black Lives Matter protests quickly spread across the world. In England, the statue of the 17th century slave