Award-winning author Patrick Radden Keefe at 5x15 in February

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** Monday, 6th February
Online via Zoom, 7pm (GMT)
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5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each
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Join us in February as we dig into the science of emotion, explore America's underbelly and celebrate sporting glory and the story of England's Lionesses.

Dr Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist, blogger, sometime comedian and author. His previous books, The Idiot Brain and The Happy Brain, were international bestsellers, while his Guardian articles have been read over sixteen million times. In Emotional Ignorance, he puts his own feelings under the microscope to ask where they come from, what purpose they serve, and why they make us feel the way they do. Addressing questions such as ‘Why can’t we think straight when hungry?’, ‘What’s the point of nightmares?’, and ‘Why can’t we forget embarrassing memories?’, as well as his grief at losing his dad to COVID-19, he discovers how emotions make us who we are.

Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of the international bestsellers Empire of Pain (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction), Say Nothing (winner of the Orwell Prize) and, most recently, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks. First published in 2009, The Snakehead is a sweeping history of the American dream, Manhattan’s Chinatown underbelly, and the mastermind behind one of the largest human-smuggling rings – a middle-aged grandmother. Described as a ‘mash-up of The Godfather and Chinatown’, it is both a kaleidoscopic crime story and a brilliant exploration of the ironies of immigration in America.

Kirsty Sedgman is an award-winning cultural studies scholar based at the University of Bristol. She publishes and speaks on art, media, participation, and cultural sociology. She is the author of numerous academic publications, including two monographs and an edited book on theatre fandom, and is Editor of the Routledge book series in Audience Research. Kirsty has also written for The Stage, Exeunt, and the BBC’s Expert Series, and her work has been featured in the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, and the New York Times. In On Being Unreasonable, she argues that sometimes we need to act unreasonably to bring about positive change. Looking back through history and around the world, Sedgman set out to discover how unfairness and discrimination got baked into our social norms, dividing us along lines of gender, class, disability, sexuality, race.

Suzanne Wrack is the Guardian and Observer’s women’s football correspondent - the first person to hold this role at a national newspaper. In A Woman's Game, she explores the history of women’s football from the Victorian era – when players wore high-heeled boots – to the present day. It is the story of a rise, fall, and rise again, from the game’s first appearance in England in the late nineteenth century, through to the height of its popularity in 1920, when crowds of 53,000 flocked to Goodison Park. Subsequently banned for 50 years in the UK, Wrack’s story ends in triumph, with England’s Lionesses’ World Cup victory in the summer of 2022

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** Dean Burnett, Patrick Radden Keefe, Kirsty Sedgman, Suzanne Wrack

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