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Dina Nayeri
Tue 18 June 2019
19:00 - 20:00
Waterstones
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Dina Nayeri

What is it like to be a refugee?

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Nathan Filer credit Emily Parker
Wed 19 June 2019
19:00 - 20:00
Waterstones
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Nathan Filer

Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia

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Stephanie Flanders Talk, Festival of Economics 2017, Bristol

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Joan Smith (c) Alexander Seale
Wed 29 May 2019

Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men into Terrorists

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Deborah Lipstadt
Sun 26 May 2019

What Can Be Done to Combat Antisemitism?

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Carolyn Forche
Thu 23 May 2019

The Poetry of Witness Now

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Coleridge Series/

Kenan Malik
Tue 21 May 2019

Who Has the Right to Speak?

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