Unmissable Culture: Amartya Sen | Anne Applebaum | The Photographers Gallery | Pinter at The Old Vic

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** Here are just a few of our highlights for the Summer:
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** 26th July 2021 - 6:30pm BST
Online
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Amartya Sen – Home in the World
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** Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
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One of the most distinguished intellectuals of both the 20th and 21st centuries, Nobel laureate and Harvard Professor Amartya Sen has devoted his life to the betterment of humanity.
GO TO EVENT (https://howtoacademy.com/events/amartya-sen-home-in-the-world/?mc_cid=421bc2744d&mc_eid=UNIQID)

** 26th July 2021 - 7:00pm BST
Online
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** Photojournalism through history: A look at The Guardian archive
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** Nesrine Malik and Karen McQuaid
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In partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery, join us for an online event with Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik and curator Karen McQuaid for a discussion about the progressive power of photojournalism.
GO TO EVENT (https://membership.theguardian.com/event/photojournalism-through-history-a-look-at-the-guardian-archive-160929044103?mc_cid=421bc2744d&mc_eid=UNIQID)

** 22nd July 2021 - 6:30pm BST
Online
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**
The Twilight of Democracy
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** Anne Applebaum In Conversation with Belle Donati
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Join the Pulitzer Prize winning historian Anne Applebaum for an investigation into the central political dilemma of our age: why did the wave of enthusiasm for liberal democracy come to an end?
GO TO EVENT (https://howtoacademy.com/events/the-twilight-of-democracy-2/?mc_cid=421bc2744d&mc_eid=UNIQID)

** 7th-10th July 2021 - 7:30pm BST
Online
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The Dumb Waiter
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** The Old Vic
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Daniel Mays and David Thewlis star in Harold Pinter’s darkly funny, insidiously menacing The Dumb Waiter for the sixth production in our globally live streamed series, OLD VIC: IN CAMERA.
GO TO EVENT (https://www.oldvictheatre.com/whats-on/2021/live-stream-from-home/old-vic-in-camera-the-dumb-waiter?mc_cid=421bc2744d&mc_eid=UNIQID)

** 10th July 2021 - 12:00pm BST
Free Online
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**
The Week Junior presents… Summer of Reading
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** With Jasbinder Bilan, Elle McNicoll and Benjamin Zephaniah
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Best-selling children’s magazine, The Week Junior, invites you to celebrate the launch of their Summer of Reading challenge at a special live event featuring award-winning authors, Jasbinder Bilan, Elle McNicoll and Benjamin Zephaniah.

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** Long Read
The Guardian
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Illusions of empire: Amartya Sen on what British rule really did for India
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** Amartya Sen
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It is true that before British rule, India was starting to fall behind other parts of the world – but many of the arguments defending the Raj are based on serious misconceptions about India’s past, imperialism and history itself.
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** Podcasts
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Katrine Marcal and Caroline Criado Perez – Mother of Invention
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** How To Academy Podcast
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For too long we have underestimated the consequences of sexism in our economy. In conversation with Caroline Criado Perez, Katrine Marçal sets the record straight and shows how, in a time of crisis, the ingenuity and intelligence of women is that very thing that can save us.
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** Museums & Galleries
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Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty - Curator Tour
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** Barbican
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Barbican Curator Eleanor Nairne takes us on a tour of her highlights from Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty.
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