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INTRODUCING THE INSTITUTE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
GRAND CHALLENGES
The ways we organise and live in our communities
influence life chances and shape futures.
From the social and
environmental effects of
climate change, to the impact
of technology on humans and
their relationships, we confront
challenges that endanger
basic human needs and life
opportunities. Now more than
ever, these complex questions
about how we should live
require radical responses and
we can no longer look to the
experts in individual academic
fields or research areas to
provide solutions.
The Grand Challenges
lectures offer a distinctive
range of perspectives and
topics from influential thinkers.
We invite speakers to offer
their fresh insights and to point
towards new interdisciplinary
possibilities for understanding
and tackling the political,
ethical and intellectual
problems that we face in
the world today.
Professor Andy Stirling,
University of Sussex
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The 2017-8 programme
included lectures from
Professor Kate Pickett on
The Immorality of Inequality,
Darren Henley; Chief
Executive of the Arts Council
Can Creativity Save Us?
and George Monbiot, Out
of the Wreckage: A New
Politics for an Age of Crisis.
2018-9 promises another
exciting series with more
great speakers and questions,
topics, and provocations.
keele.ac.uk/ilas/
grandchallenges
Professor Kate Pickett,
York University
Professor Shane O’Neill,
Keele University