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Fake news, espionage, conspiracies, populist lies – the subject of truth (and lies) has dominated the news in 2017. These stories are entwined with wider topics: How do we decide what is true? Can there be a ‘correct’ historical narrative? How do religions and ideologies stake their claim to universality? Join us as we debate, discuss and explore what truth really means.
Additionally, this year is the UK-India Year of Culture, marking the 70th anniversary of Indian independence. The Festival is filled with events linked to the past, present and future of India, with a special series from the University of Cambridge Museums and Botanic Garden - India Unboxed.

Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2017

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History Extension

Taken from Regressions Through the Mirrors of Time. Get the CD: http://www.hayhouse.co.uk/cds/140192235X/regression-through-the-mirrors-of-time

Enjoy a meditation in which Dr. Brian Weiss will help you to induce a state of serenity and contentment.

Brian Weiss - A Meditation to Inner Peace, Love and Joy

Introductions

Agreeing

Invitations

Jobs

Relationships

From Louise Hay's "Meditations for Loving Yourself to Great Health"
The guided meditations in this audio program were created by Louise Hay, Ahlea Khadro, and Heather Dane to support you in changing your way of life to one that focuses on nourishing your body and treating it with love. Sit back, relax, and allow yourself to be guided to more loving choices.

Louise Hay -  Healthy Body, Healthy Mind Meditation

Andrew Roberts about Napoleon.

Andrew Roberts has written or edited twelve books, and appears regularly on radio and television around the world. He has recently lectured at Yale, Princeton and Stanford Universities and at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He commentated for NBC on the Royal Wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton, following his well-received broadcasts at the funerals of Diana, Princess of Wales and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and the wedding of Princes Charles to the Duchess of Cornwall.

His biography of the Earl of Halifax, entitled 'The Holy Fox' was published in 1991, to be followed by Eminent Churchillians in 1994. Other books include 'Salisbury: Victorian Titan', which won the Wolfson History Prize and the James Stern Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction; 'Napoleon and Wellington, an investigation into the relationship between the two great generals'; 'Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership', which coincided with Roberts's four-part BBC2 history series; Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 brought him an invitation to the White House in February 2007, where he delivered the prestigious White House Lecture. The Storm of War was published in August 2009 and reached No.2 on The Sunday Times bestseller list, and won the British Army Military Book Award for 2010. In April 2012 he was awarded the William Penn Prize.  

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Napoleon the great - Andrew Roberts

Western democracies have seen a resurgence in far-right populist movements. Alongside disaffection with mainstream political parties, there has been agitation against immigration and multiculturalism. How are we to make sense of these developments? What do they mean for race relations? And what implications do they have for our democratic future?

Tim Soutphommasane is Race Discrimination Commissioner and commenced his five-year appointment on 20 August 2013. Prior to joining the Australian Human Rights Commission, he was a political philosopher and held posts at the University of Sydney and Monash University. His thinking on multiculturalism, national identity and patriotism has been influential in shaping debates in Australia and Britain.

Sydney Democracy Network

Festival of Democracy | Populism, Race and Democracy

A download of guided meditations aimed to complement the learnings found in Prof Mark William's and Dr Danny Penman's guide to freeing yourself from the stresses of everyday life. Containing all the meditations that are mentioned in the book this is an invaluable resource to cement their teachings on how to find Mindfulness, and how to keep it.

Mindfulness - Finding Peace In A Frantic World - Guided Meditations

Meditation Five: Sounds And Thoughts

Meditation Four: Breath And Body

Meditation One: Mindfulness Of Body And Breath

As Tanzania attempts to get healthcare to all corners of the country, The Elders – an independent group of global leaders co-founded by Nelson Mandela and working together for peace and human rights – paid an official visit to the country.

They were in Tanzania to offer help and advice to the government in preparation for what they hope will be a set of reforms culminating in universal healthcare.

In this month’s Global development podcast, Lucy Lamble visits Tanzania to explore efforts to bolster the country’s health coverage. She is joined by Graça Machel, human rights advocate, former minister and elder; Mary Robinson, former Irish president, UN high commissioner for human rights and elder; and Robert Yates, project director of the Universal Health Coverage Policy Forum at London’s Chatham House.

Presented by Lucy Lamble; produced by Gabriela Jones

Global dev podcast

'Without health, people have nothing': Tanzania seeks a political salve - podcast

It’s the 21st century, 100 years since Australian women were lucky enough to get the vote, and we’ve arrived at the age of Pussyriot and Pussyhats. How did women get here? What does this augur for the future of feminism as a world-wide phenomenon, now drawing a new generation of activists, in some cases connecting them with earlier feminist waves?

What is the impact of events in the US in particular for a standard of feminist politics everywhere? In an age when all social movements have a global scope, a panel of feminist academics with specific areas of geopolitical expertise on the US, UK, Russia, and Australia, come together to discuss these questions.

Speakers:
- Professor Glenda Sluga, P, ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor of International History, FAHA, the University of Sydney
- Dr Philippa Hetherington, University College London (UCL)
- Associate Professor Laura J Shepherd, , UNSW Sydney
- Anna Hush, University of Sydney student

Held as part of Sydney Ideas, The Thinker's Guide to the 21st century series on 23 August 2017: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/thinkers_guide_21st_century_2017.shtml

Sydney Ideas

Feminism in the Age of Populism

Herodotus is referred to as the 'father of history' - and he was that, and also much more besides: the father of comparative ethnography, and the father of cultural history of civilisations among others .... But much of his life remains a mystery, and there are a ton more things to be discussed about his superb work, The Histories. Join translator Tom Holland and Herodotus expert Professor Paul Cartledge in conversation about this enigmatic figure and what we can learn about history from his writings.

Paul Cartledge is A.G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow of Clare College and emeritus AG Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge. His many books on ancient Greek history include The Spartans: An epic history (pb 2003) and Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction (2009, pb 2011); his latest is Democracy: A Life (2016). He wrote the introduction and notes to accompany Tom Holland's new translation of Herodotus's Histories (Penguin 2013, pb 2014).

Tom Holland is the author of Rubicon, Persian Fire, Millennium and In The Shadow Of The Sword, and the translator for Penguin Classics of Herodotus’ Histories. His most recent work of history, Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar was published last year. His biography of Æthelstan, the first in Penguin’s monarchs of Britain series, was published last summer. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Making History, and of TV documentaries on topics that have ranged from ISIS to dinosaurs.

HERODOTUS

We know that populists can be sloppy with facts and speedy with promises that are impossible to deliver. Yet populist leaders also tend to highlight real inequities and to persuade followers that they are in possession of some greater truth. Followers often outsource their judgment to the populist leader on the basis of this belief. What, then, is the relationship between populism and truth? What might we learn about our contemporary political moment from an understanding of this relationship? In this panel, we explore these less discussed aspects of populism, drawing on current and historical examples from Argentina to India, and from Turkey to Russia.

Confirmed speakers:
 Ayça Çubukçu (LSE) on Recep Erdogan
 Hugo Drochon (CRASSH) on Marine Le Pen
 Tanya Filer (CIPP) on Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
 Matthew Barr (Cambridge) on Donald Trump
 Nayanika Mathur (Oxford) on Narendra Modi
 Madeleine Reeves (Manchester) on Vladimir Putin

POPULISM

Is history always written by the victors? Panelists Ruth Dudley Edwards, Kehinde Andrews, Maximilian Sternberg and Yesim Yaprak Yildiz will discuss how history is used to advance nationalist and colonialist ideas and how different sides can fervently believe different versions of the same events. Their contributions will cover decolonisation, Irish history, torturers’ confessions in Turkey and how architectural heritage is used and abused in Jerusalem.

REWRITING HISTORY

False statistics can spread around the world in an instant. Politicians are open to manipulation by hostile government hacking. Masses of data on citizens is widely available and open to surveillance and misuse. How can politics and government keep up? With social anthropologist Beth Singler, Law lecturer Nora Ni Loideain, author George Zarkadakis and Will Moy from Full Fact factchecking charity.

CAN POLITICS KEEP UP WITH TECHNOLOGY?

Leaks and hacks are both praised as tools of transparency and accountability or condemned as espionage and manipulation by malevolent powers. How safe is our data in the digital age…and what is the worst that could go wrong? Discussing this topic are Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6, MI5 historian Christopher Andrew, journalist Nick Davies and Martha Spurrier, head of Liberty. Chaired by BBC Cambridgeshire's Chris Mann.

CAN WE KEEP SECRETS?

Francis Wade is the author of Myanmar's Enemy Within, the book that debuted just 10 days before violence erupted in the Rakhine state against the Rohingya population. We discuss the political factors that led up to the outbreak as well as the history of the country which makes it much more vulnerable to this kind of ethnic violence.

Yale University

Setting the Stage for Genocide: The Background of the Rohingya Crisis

Professor Frank Bongiorno's keynote address at the National Conference of the History Teachers' Association of Australia (3 October 2018). This event was convened by the History Teachers' Association ACT and recorded on their behalf by the HTA NSW. In this lecture, Professor Bongiorno discusses Australian history and its connections to broader, global history. &nbsp; We hope you enjoy the episode!&nbsp; &nbsp; HTA Australia: http://www.historyteacher.org.au/ ACT HTA: https://www.acthta.com.au/ HTA NSW: https://www.htansw.asn.au/ ANU School of History: http://history.cass.anu.edu.au/

#2 - How Can We Make Australian History Global?

This episode features an interview with Dr. Jo Hawkins about her new book&nbsp;Consuming Anzac: The History of Australia's Most Powerful Brand (UWA Publishing, 2018). &nbsp; Dr Jo Hawkins:&nbsp;https://twitter.com/history_punk?lang=en Consuming Anzac (book):&nbsp;https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/consuming-anzac-the-history-of-australia-s-most-powerful-brand

#4 Consuming Anzac – Dr Jo Hawkins

In this episode we talk to Billy Griffiths from Deakin University (Victoria) about his most recent book,&nbsp;Deep Time Dreaming. This is a fresh look at Australian archaeological and its relationship to modern political and cultural movements in Australia written by one of Australia's most promising young historians. Enjoy the tales of excavation and imagination that have transformed the way archaeologists understand Australia's deep past. Buy a copy of Deep Time Dreaming Billy Griffiths' scholar profile Follow Billy Griffiths on Twitter&nbsp;