Françoise Vergès discusses the history of counter revolution against women’s liberation from the 1970s to the 2000s and the forms it concretely took (femonationalism, femi-imperialism in the name of women’s rights) and current forms of decolonial feminism. Speaker: Dr Françoise Vergès, Chair of Global South, Collège d'études Mondiales, Paris Chair: Professor Tamar Garb FBA, Durning-Lawrence Chair of History of Art, UCL

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Global Perspectives: decolonial feminism

Professor Martin Kemp FBA reflects on Leonardo's extraordinary life and legacy, the commercial implications of his worldwide fame, and the endless conspiracy theories he inspires.

Thinkers for our Time: Martin Kemp FBA on Leonardo da Vinci

Thinkers for our Time: Merce Cunningham by The British Academy

Thinkers for our Time: Merce Cunningham

What does ‘TubeCrush’ reveal about modern desire? by The British Academy

What does ‘TubeCrush’ reveal about modern desire?

Author, broadcaster and editor-at-large for The Guardian Gary Younge discusses how identity politics has effectively come to mean anything you want it to, so long as you don’t like it. As such, since it is a term so wilfully misunderstood, he argues it is no longer worth claiming or even necessarily critiquing. But the original idea that underpins it still holds true. None of us come to politics from a vacuum – we arrive with affiliations that mould our worldview. Who and what we are does not define what we think, but it certainly helps shape it. Speaker: Gary Younge, Author, broadcaster and editor-at-large for The Guardian Chair: Professor Ann Phoenix FBA, Professor of Psychosocial Studies, Institute of Education, UCL

Identity politics: a term whose time has gone?

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