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Wed 13 November 2019
19:00 - 20:00
Waterstones
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Rory MacLean

True Travels to the End of Europe

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My Name is Julia Ross
Thu 14 November 2019
20:00 - 21:30
Cube Cinema
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My Name is Julia Ross

USA, Dir: Joseph H Lewis, 1945

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Stephanie Flanders Talk, Festival of Economics 2017, Bristol

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What is Democracy
Mon 21 October 2019

USA, 2018, Dir. Astra Taylor

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Slavoj Žižek
Wed 25 September 2019

Sex and the Failed Absolute

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Tom Holland 2019
Tue 17 September 2019

Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind

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Susan Neiman – FSG low res 2
Mon 16 September 2019

Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil

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