Academic Events
Guest Lecture - Professor Rick Fawn on “Russia’s War Against Ukraine and the Re-ordering of Europe”
Rick Fawn is Professor in the School of International Relations. Alongside academic work, he has engaged for many years in conflict zones and with conflict parties across the former communist world. He has also given numerous briefings and advisories to national governments, NGOs and international organizations, and has recently returned from Ukraine. His latest book is Castle on a Hill: the Visegrad Group, Regionalism, and the Remaking of Europe, forthcoming with Georgetown University Press.
Professor Fawn will deliver a lecture on “Russia’s war against Ukraine and the Re-ordering of Europe” to the Roosevelt Group and wider St Andrews community on Thursday, April 4th, 2024.
Feature 1 - Dr. Iain McGilchrist and Jack Light
Dr. Iain McGilchrest
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Member Jack Light sits down with Dr. Iain McGilchrist, a neuroscientist, philosopher, and author of The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World.
The two discuss Dr. McGilchrist’s brain hemisphere research and the many different ways our brains reveal truth to us, the advantages and great dangers of technology, the changing nature of growing up, education, and more.
The paperback edition of Dr. McGilchrist’s book in on sale now! See this link to purchase The Matter with Things.