Where will your curiosity lead you next?
Join us in real-time, or on demand, for talks and Q&As with passionate academics designed to make your mind tick.
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We work with passionate world experts in all categories
Art & Entertainment
Take a wander through human imagination, creativity & the designed world around us
Geography & the World
Explore Planet Earth’s diverse environments & ecosystems, from rainforests to cities
History
Look back on key events, trends & people to shed new light on the world we live in today
Human Biology & Medicine
Focus your attention inwards to one of the most complex systems of all: the human body
Literature & Language
Immerse yourself in the world of words, written & spoken, from mythology to the media
Philosophy & Religion
Ask the knotty questions about knowledge, reality, existence, morality & what we believe
Psychology & Behaviour
Delve into what drives us as humans, from communication & memory to thought & emotion
Science & Nature
Journey through the natural world and the experiments & observations that illuminate it
Society & Politics
Examine the ties that bind us as communities and the customs & structures we create
Technology
Investigate the most exciting applications of the cutting edge of research & thinking
We bring experts out of the best institutions
James fell in love with art at the age of six and hasn't looked back since. He is now an art historian at the University of Cambridge, a curator, an award-winning broadcaster and the author of bestselling book The World According to Colour.
Dr Naomi Woo holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She has also studied mathematics, philosophy and music at Yale College, the Yale School of Music and Université de Montréal.
Dr Jordan Dowell is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Davis. He researches how plants deal with pests, pathogens, and more importantly each other.
Lauren is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky. In her lab, she studies what affects our sleep, and how that in turn affects our waking behaviour.
Described by the tabloid press as a “psychedelic Indiana Jones”, David focuses his research on transpersonal experiences, anomalous phenomena and altered states of consciousness, especially via psychedelics.
Keri is a developmental psychologist and criminologist. She is Associate Professor and co-Director of the Centre for Education in Criminal Justice System.
