New Generation Thinkers 2016: Hear their ideas
From aubergines to frostbite via finger-counting.
Artes Mundi Prize, Harriet Walter, Amitav Ghosh, Edmund Richardson
With a review of the 2016 Artes Mundi show, actress Harriet Walter and author Amitav Ghosh
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Food: Are We What We Eat?—The Essay, New Generation Thinkers
Christopher Kissane explores the role of food in past and present conflicts over identity.
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Partitioned Memories—The Essay, New Generation Thinkers
Anindya Raychaudhuri considers people's memories of India and Pakistan in 1947.
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Telephone Terrors—The Essay, New Generation Thinkers
Poet Sarah Jackson explores the phone and its voices in philosophy and fiction.
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Strindberg and 'the Woman Question'—The Essay, New Generation Thinkers
Leah Broad considers 'the woman question' in 19th-century Scandinavian countries.
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The Rise and Fall of the Hairdresser—The Essay, New Generation Thinkers
New Generation Thinker Seán Williams on the depiction of hairdressers in prints and prose
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"War is no longer something that happens over there"
New Generation Thinker Anindya Raychaudhuri on aerial bombardment & the Spanish Civil War
"Nietzsche wanted to provoke"
New Generation Thinker Seán Williams on Friedrich Nietzsche's criticism of universities
From Cardiff to Donetsk
New Generation Thinker Victoria Donovan on the hidden history of Ukraine's Welsh miners
Tingling fingertips. New Generation Thinker and poet Sarah Jackson on our sense of touch and ice
Visions of Antarctica in the diaries of Apsley Cherry-Garrard and the art of Sidney Nolan
How the surfaces of Edvard Munch's paintings connect to his biography.
2016 New Generation Thinker Leah Broad on the rerelease of Peter Watkins' documentary
"A Yorkshirewoman first and a European second"
New Generation Thinker Katherine Cooper on writer Margaret Storm Jameson
"Failures of citizenship have led us to this moment"
New Generation Thinker Chris Kissane discusses ideas of citizenship.
How figures on the margin of history tell us what really happened
2016 New Gen Thinker Edmund Richardson with the story of spiritualist Daniel Dunglas Home
Aubergines and the Spanish Inquisition
2016 New Generation Thinker Christopher Kissane explores food's forgotten role in history
What links Beyoncé to Flora Nwapa and the first novel by a black African woman?
New Generation Thinker, Louisa Egbunike, on the bloodline between Beyoncé and Flora Nwapa
Finger-counting and the medieval mind
Arithmetic, Computus and Communication From Rome to the Middle Ages with Seb Falk
Back to the future? How to count to 9,999, early medieval-style—Hands, Physiology and Art, the History of Science
Medieval Sciences Historian Seb Falk counts on his fingers in an early medieval style
Hay Festival: New Generation Thinkers 2016
Rana Mitter introduces the ten academics named as the New Generation Thinkers for 2016.
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