This is a recording of Dr Iain McGilchrist’s lecture entitled The Sovereignty of Truth for the day long symposium, The Future of Humanity, that took place on Saturday 26th October 2024 at the Royal Institution, Mayfair. This event was organised by Channel McGilchrist and The Scientific and Medical Network.
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Arch of Constantine, 315 C.E., Rome Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
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History Hit’s Tristan Hughes was given special access to the ‘World of Stonehenge exhibition’ at the British Museum to speak to the team responsible for the discovery of a 5000 year-old chalk cylinder and explore its fascinating story.
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In 1863, 19 year old Fanny Kelly was kidnapped by the Lakota. Her wagon trail to Idaho was ambushed, Her people were killed, and she was taken. In order to SURVIVE six months with her captures she had to endure incredible hardships, battles, and even attempts on her life.
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The Odyssey is an epic poem in 24 books traditionally attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer. The poem is the story of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, who wanders for 10 years (although the action of the poem covers only the final six weeks) trying to get home after the Trojan War.
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Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Andrew Roberts are senior fellows at the Hoover Institution and among the most prestigious and popular historians in the world. This is the first time they have appeared together in a public forum. Among the topics they cover in this wide-ranging discussion: the recent controversy regarding Winston Churchill’s role in World War II, the false premise of the 1619 Project, the Cold War, World War II, and the role of historians in public life.
This speech was written and delivered by Darryl Cooper at the Novitate Conference in Washington, DC, in November 2023. The Novitate Conference celebrates the work of French author Rene Girard, and explores the power of his theories in a variety of domains. The conference was founded and built by Luke Burgis, the author of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life.
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Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is hosting the “Communism and the World”, a biweekly series to complement VOC’s curricular resource, Communism: Its Ideology, Its History, and Its Legacy.
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In this talk, one of the greatest geopolitical thinkers of today, author of groundbreaking books on the history of the Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe, and most recently the monumental biography of Joseph Stalin, STEPHEN KOTKIN, will set out a series of propositions to help us understand the contemporary world order, the key trends, the inflection points, and the ways that policymakers could intervene to shape the direction in which the world will go. In conversation with IWM Permanent Fellow IVAN KRASTEV, he will look at the current geopolitical moment in historical perspective.
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Humans are a spectacular outlier among the millions of species of life on planet earth, with incredibly unique biological success. Slowly, scientists have begun to understand the traits that interacted to make us unique, such as cumulative culture, unique scales of cooperation, cognitive abilities, language, and a unique life history and mating system.
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