Are leaders born or made? What makes for a good leader? How do circumstances shape what type of leader emerges? Professor Elias Aboujaoude puts leadership “on the couch,” with a provocative exploration of its crucial, but often ignored, psychological and personal character foundations. His distinctive exploration provides new insights on who should and should not […]
Still the Enemy Within is a unique insight into one of history’s most dramatic events: the 1984-85 British Miners’ Strike. No experts. No politicians. Forty years on, this is the raw first-hand experience of those who lived through Britain’s longest strike. Follow the highs and lows of that life-changing year. The official trailer is available […]
Over the past eight months, the Gaza Strip has become the theatre of a bloody and relentless military operation by the Israeli Defence Forces in response to the October 7 attack orchestrated by Hamas against Israeli citizens. In this interactive session, we will attempt to provide some clarity around the ongoing hostilities by locating them […]
Politics and International Relations Lecture Join us for the keynote lecture of the Anticolonial Agendas workshop with Professor Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, who is visiting York for the first time. Professor Táíwò will present his latest book Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously, which provides an intellectual and moral critique of today’s decolonisation movement. He argues that decolonisation […]
Land and natural resources are crucially shaped by their relationship to political authority, but what happens in situations when norms and institutions that shape land access and rights are in flux? In this webinar, we speak to three experts about how rights and access to land is shaped in the context of conflict, political transition […]