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Tuesday 21 May
- 17:30
- Vox Populi Seminars
Tonight: 'The Referendum of 1997: The Settled Will of the Scottish People?' by Brian Taylor of BBC Scotland.
Thursday 23 May
- 13:00 – 14:00
- Langside Talks
Today: 'Three Poets: Three Languages' with Glasgow-based prize-winning poets Maggie Rabatski, A C Clarke and Sheila Templeton, who will each read for 15 minutes.
- 19:00 – 22:30
- The Atlantic Cable
The first ever Atlantic Cable, featuring talks by Dr Michael Morris (Glasgow University), Dr Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen); music from Joe Black, Siobhan Wilson, and Jill O'Sullivan (Sparrow and the Workshop); and video work from artist Annie Crabtree (Picture Window).
Friday 24 May
- 11:00 – 13:00
- BBC Radio Scotland: Brian Taylor's Big Debate
Sunday 26 May
- 11:00
- An Archive of Feelings
- 11:00
- Sunday Papers Live
This week includes performances from UN insider Mukesh Kapila, journalist and novelist Jon Ronson, fashionista Katherine Hamnett (CBE) and artist Gavin Turk, plus many more.
- 14:30
- Public Feelings
Tuesday 28 May
- 20:00 – 22:00
- Big Ideas
Tonight, the question is 'What Is Gender?' Stella Sandford (Reader in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University and member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective) addresses the 'gender/sex' divide, looking at whether or not there is a meaningful difference between 'masculine and feminine' and 'male and female'.
Wednesday 29 May
This year's lecture is 'The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity', about the decline of violence in what are often perceived be highly violent times. Given by Prof Steven Pinker of Harvard University, who studies cognition and language.
Thursday 30 May
- 13:00 – 14:00
- Langside Talks
Today: 'The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society' by Stuart Robertson, who is the director of the society.
Monday 3 June
- 19:30
- Prostitution Debate
Thursday 6 June
- 09:00 – 17:30
- SFHA Annual Conference 2013: Reform of Re-Form?
Friday 7 June
- 09:15 – 15:30
- SFHA Annual Conference 2013: Reform of Re-Form?
- 14:00 – 16:00
- Badges of Honour: Talks and Events
Saturday 8 June
- 14:00 – 15:00
- Talk of the Steamie
Today: Drawing Out the Story of Red Road, or What Is a Dialectogram Anyway? – Illustrator Mitch Miller talks about the creation of detailed pen and ink drawings of the Red Road community, which he completed with the help of its residents over a three year period.
Wednesday 12 June
- 14:00 – 16:00
- Badges of Honour: Talks and Events
Today's event is entitled 'People’s Palace'.
- 18:30 – 22:00
- Jennifer Broadley: Respect
Thursday 13 June
Friday 14 June
- 11:00 – 13:00
- BBC Radio Scotland: Brian Taylor's Big Debate
Sunday 16 June
Wednesday 19 June
- 14:00 – 16:00
- Badges of Honour: Talks and Events
Today the GWL team heads to Glasgow Museums Resource Centre to uncover the stories held there, including the one behind the oldest known badge belonging to a Glaswegian.
- 19:00 – 20:30
- Unstated: Writers on Scottish Independence
Tuesday 25 June
- 20:00 – 22:00
- Big Ideas
Tonight, the question is 'What sort of things are numbers?' Oxford lecturer Alexander Paseau tackles the abstract concept, determining whether numbers are subjective products of mental processes or if they in fact belong to a 'separate realm of ideal existence', as Plato believed.
