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OPEN LECTURES: LGBT History Month, public health, and Pevsner

Posted on 14 February 2020

Find out something new at our free Open Lectures - everyone welcome.

Travis Alabanza for LGBT+ History Month
Monday 17 February 2020
Travis Alabanza is a writer, theatre-maker and performer who for the last four years has been creating performance, writing to archive the existence and experiences of gender non conforming people of colour.

Wonders on Wednesday 2 - Public Health
Wednesday 19 February 2020
Discover how public health was important to social reformers like Joseph Rowntree and how it informs contemporary ideas and practices.

Historical denial and right-wing politics in contemporary Japan
Wednesday 19 February 2020
This talk, based on a work-in-progress, explores the social, political, and cultural contexts for the successful re-emergence of the nationalist right in Japan over the past quarter-century.

Revising Pevsner
Thursday 20 February 2020
Jane Grenville, retired member of the Department of Archaeology and former Deputy Vice-Chancellor, will talk about Pevsner, a German Jewish refugee architectural historian. 

The fight of Nigerian civil society for fiscal justice in the face of governments and the French mining giant ORANO
Friday 21 February 2020
Ali Idrissa addresses the multiple challenges civil society activists face when challenging multinational corporations engaged in extractive industries such as uranium mining, and talks of what the future will hold for Niger and its civil society.

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