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AI and creativity: what makes us human?
A discussion hosted by Matthew Sweet at the Barbican's exhibition AI More Than Human

Simon Schama, Siri Hustvedt, Catherine Fletcher at Hay.
Rana Mitter discusses writing on art from Da Vinci and Rembrandt to Louise Bourgeois.

Landmark: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Rana Mitter hosts a debate at Hay Festival about the rise of the environmental movement

Stanley Spencer, Domestic Servants, Surrogacy
Authors Nicola Upson and Joanne Ramos, and researchers Gulzaar Barn & Ella Parry-Davies.

Censorship and sex
With Naomi Wolf, Sarah Parker and Luis de Miranda.

Sebald. Anti-semitism. Carolyn Forché
The walking & photographs of WG Sebald. An exhibition of money and Jewish history.

Rivers, different cultures, different values
Anthropologist, Poet, Archaeologist and Angler reflect on what a river should be

Free Thinking:Homi Bhabha: On Memory and Migration
Shahidha Bari talks to Professor Bhabha about his influence on postcolonial studies.

Rivers and geopolitics
Global Dams, Ancient Rome & the Tiber: rivers, power and scarcity

Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic & the Mind.
Matthew Sweet talks Spaghetti Westerns w/ Christopher Frayling + conjuring tricks & bias