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Saturday 25 May
Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.
- 17:30
- No Church in the Wild
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.
- 19:00 – 21:00
- Cultural Forum 2013: Global Citizenship
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.
- 19:00 – 21:00
- Cultural Forum 2013: Global Citizenship
Friday 31 May
- 19:00 – 21:00
- Cultural Forum 2013: Global Citizenship
Saturday 1 June
- 19:00 – 21:00
- Cultural Forum 2013: Global Citizenship
Sunday 2 June
- 19:00 – 21:00
- Cultural Forum 2013: Global Citizenship
Thursday 6 June
- 09:00 – 17:30
- SFHA Annual Conference 2013: Reform of Re-Form?
- 19:00 – 21:00
- Cultural Forum 2013: Global Citizenship
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
- 19:00 – 21:00
- Cultural Forum 2013: Global Citizenship
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.
- 19:00 – 21:00
- Cultural Forum 2013: Global Citizenship
Sunday 9 June
- 19:00 – 21:00
- Cultural Forum 2013: Global Citizenship
Monday 10 June
- 19:00 – 21:00
- Cultural Forum 2013: Global Citizenship
Tuesday 11 June
- 19:00 – 21:00
- Cultural Forum 2013: Global Citizenship
Wednesday 12 June
- 14:00 – 16:00
- Badges of Honour: Talks and Events
Today's event is entitled 'People’s Palace'.
- 19:00 – 21:00
- Cultural Forum 2013: Global Citizenship
Thursday 13 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.
Friday 28 June
- 11:00 – 13:00
- BBC Radio Scotland: Brian Taylor's Big Debate
