Open Lectures in week 4
Posted on 14 October 2016
The Big Drugs Debate
Tuesday 18 October 2016, 6.30pm
Speaker: Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday and Joana Ramiro, RT UK
York Union event
The argument that rehabilitation, rather than punishment, is the best way to treat drug abuse is becoming increasingly popular. Drug use is increasingly viewed as being a personal issue which the state has no right to interfere with, let alone make illegal. Yet what about the affect that drug use has on wider society? Would legalisation lead to an increase in the amount of drug users? Equally, what would a legalised drug industry look like?
Integrity, hypocrisy and the corruption of the 'ideal standard'
Tuesday 18 October 2016, 4.00pm
The Black Prince of Florence: A Medici Mystery
Tuesday 18 October 2016, 7.00pm
Urban Inequalities: Social Distance and Spatial Division
Wednesday 19 October 2016, 3.00pm
Physics Review: 25th Anniversary Celebration
Wednesday 19 October 2016, 4.30pm
Haeckel’s embryos: Images, evolution and fraud
Thursday 20 October 2016, 5.30pm
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