forthcoming speakers

Remi Adekoya

Dr Remi Adekoya is a politics lecturer at the University of York. Before academia, Remi was a journalist writing for the Guardian, Sunday Times, New Statesman, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Politico, Spectator, Evening Standard and UnHerd. He’s provided commentary for CNN, BBC, Sky News, Al Jazeera, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, South African Broadcasting Corporation, African International Television, Radio France International, Talk Radio and Times […]

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Nat Edwards

Nat Edwards is Director General of Royal Armouries Museum. As a museum curator and community activist, he has worked in museums, galleries and archives for almost 35 years – developing exhibitions, education and community-based projects as well as major capital projects. Nat is the author of Caledonia’s Last Stand: In Search of the Lost Scots of Darien (Luath Press Ltd, 2007). […]

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Denise Fahmy

Denise Fahmy is co-founder of Freedom in the Arts, a new organisation promoting freedom of speech and expression in the UK cultural sector. Together with choreographer Rosie Kay, she started the organisation having seen the growth of censorship and the impact on artists of being ‘cancelled’. Denise has worked in the cultural sector for 30 years and specialises in visual arts. She worked for Arts […]

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Peter Bull

Professor Peter Bull is an Honorary Professor in Psychology at the university of York. His principal interest is the detailed microanalysis of interpersonal communication, in particular nonverbal communication and political discourse; he also has interests in the social psychology of health.  Peter read modern history at the University of Oxford, and psychology at the University of Exeter, where he wrote a PhD thesis on the […]

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Maurice Waddle

Dr Maurice Waddle is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of York. His interests are in the interpersonal communication behaviour of politicians: including investigations into how politicians deal with challenging questions and the consequences of evasive responses, how political speakers and audiences interact, and the form and function of adversarial opposition at Prime Minister’s Questions. Maurice is co-author with Peter Bull of The Psychology […]

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