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    Jonathan Sumption – The New Roundheads: Politics and the Misuse of History

    To Be Confirmed Oxford, United Kingdom

    Jonathan Sumption is a renowned historian and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Four instalments of his critically acclaimed history of the Hundred Years’ War have been published between 1990 and 2015, all by Faber & Faber. The fifth and final volume, Triumph and Illusion, was published in late 2023.

    After his lecture, Lord Sumption was interviewed on stage by the eminent journalist and broadcaster John Simpson.

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    Richard Dawkins – Science, the Poetry of Reality, Jewel in Humanity’s Crown

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    To Be Confirmed Oxford, United Kingdom

    Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL is a world-renowned evolutionary biologist, author and atheist. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. He has written many acclaimed books including The Selfish Gene (OUP, 1976), The God Delusion (Bantam, 2006), and Flights of Fancy (Head of Zeus, 2021).

    After his lecture, Richard Dawkins was joined on stage by Dame Angela McLean, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government, for a discussion moderated by legendary journalist John Simpson.

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    Reidar Due – Freedom of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Freedom

    To Be Confirmed Oxford, United Kingdom

    In this inaugural Pharos Tuesday Seminar, philosopher Reidar Due explores the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault. Icons of the so-called ‘culture war’, this series of discourses takes the two thinkers out of the fire of contemporary debate, seeking to understand their place in a longer tradition of French philosophy as a precursor to a better understanding of their contemporary relevance.

    Professor of Film Aesthetics, University of Oxford

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  • Pharos Foundation Oxford, John Gray

    John Gray – What is Living and What is Dead in Liberalism?

    To Be Confirmed Oxford, United Kingdom

    John Gray is a world-renowned philosopher, political theorist and intellectual historian. He has an asteroid named after him and until 2008 he was School Professor of European Thought at the LSE. He now writes principally for the New Statesman and has authored over twenty books including the bestselling Seven Types of Atheism, Straw Dogs, Black Mass, The Soul of the Marionette, The Silence of Animals and Feline Philosophy. His latest book, published by Penguin in September 2023, is The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism.

    After his lecture, John Gray was joined on stage for a discussion by the world-leading ethicist Prof Nigel Biggar CBE.

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