Unmissable Culture: Cheryl Strayed, Kai Fu Lee, Wole Soyinka, Jennifer Hochschild

Fri Sep 10 08:59:55 BST 2021

Plus, listen to Dennis Duncan in this week's How To Academy podcast

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** Here are just a few of our highlights for the Autumn:
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** 13th September 2021 - 6:30pm BST
Online
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An Evening With Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Brave Enough
In Conversation with Hannah MacInnes
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At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. Her journey through survival, grief and redemption has made her one of the most loved and admired authors of our time.
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** 28th September 2021 - 7:30pm BST
Online
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Wole Soyinka In Conversation
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The Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian writer introduces his first novel in 48 years, in a livestreamed conversation.
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** 15th September 2021 - 12:00pm BST
Online
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How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Life On Earth
Kai-Fu Lee
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World-leading technologist and Artificial Intelligence expert Kai-Fu Lee joins us to reveal how, in just twenty years, AI will transform the world beyond recognition.
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** 10th September 2021 - 12:00pm ET
Free Online
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Genomic Politics
Jennifer Hochschild
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Join renowned political scientist and Harvard professor Jennifer Hochschild for a discussion of her latest book, Genomic Politics: How the Revolution in Genomic Science is Shaping American Society.
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** Long Read
The New Yorker
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Who Lost the Sex Wars?
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** Amia Srinivasan
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Fissures in the feminist movement should not be buried as signs of failure but worked through as opportunities for insight.

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** Long Read
The New York Times
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‘I Helped Destroy People’
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** Janet Reitman
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Terry Albury, an idealistic F.B.I. agent, grew so disillusioned by the war on terror that he was willing to leak classified documents — and go to prison for doing it.

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** Podcasts
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Dennis Duncan – Index, a history of the
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** How To Academy Podcast
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In this week’s podcast, literary scholar Dennis Duncan takes us into the secret world of the index and reveals how it transformed the way we read and process knowledge forever.

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** Museums and Galleries
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Highlights of The Met Cloisters
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Join curators, conservators, and horticulturists as they discuss some projects they have been working on over the past year and experience the magic of The Met Cloisters.
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