After 12pm, Talks & lectures, Politics

Contributors to Unstated: Writers On Scottish Independence talk about the impending referendum in 2014.

Prof Akbar Ahmed's The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam is the third volume in a triology looking at the post-9/11 relationship between the US and the Muslim world.

Presenter of the Today Programme for almost 20 years, James Naughtie talks about his career in political journalism and touches on his passion for music, giving an insight into his interesting life.

Big Ideas presents big questions, then lets an expert have a stab at answering it before turning it to the audience for discussion. Brief, informal and relaxed, the pub-based event is open to anyone and everyone.

Talks on a variety of themes organised by the Ragged University, promoting the message that learning is much more palatable when served up with a nice cold pint. All welcome.

A panel discussion, chaired by economist and broadcaster Evan Davis, debating the financial crisis, protest and the 'many' versus the 'few'.

An evening with former Scottish Socialist Party MSP Rosie Kane, as she tells the story of her life with wit and wisdom.

The political columnist presents his new book, a companion to the three-part television series of the same name. Booking is essential.

Glasgow Women's Library presents a series of activities to complement their Illuminated Letters exhibition.

Author and broadcaster Paul Mason outlines the ways in which technology has enabled global protest movements and asks how the old political models of ruling and resisting are being undermined. Chaired by Professor William Sweeney. Speech-to-Text Reported event.

Dr Debbie Lewer discusses the work of 20th century German artist Joseph Beuys, focusing on the themes of personal and collective trauma, redemption and Beuys' idiosyncratic conception of his art as 'social sculpture'.

Memory always distorts. Theatre is inherently un-real. Is this the perfect combination, or fraught with difficulties? This panel discussion explores the tensions between theatre, history, memory, preservation, and politics; between that which has been left to us and that which is absolutely new. Leading artists discuss.