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Judge Saadet Yüksel, Vice-President of Section at the European Court of Human Rights, examines the Court's evolving case law on domestic violence, drawing on her experience at the Court and her academic work on gender-based violence and human rights. Part of the Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction's UCL200 event series, moderated by Dr Yulia Ioffe. 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Pierre Wunsch, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium, speaks, with Professor Paul De Grauwe of the LSE European Institute chairing. He argues that Europe is stuck in a 'Eurosclerosis 2.0' period: despite repeated 'EU grand plans', growth is very low and the innovation gap with the US and China persists. Looking at technology, institutional set-up and geopolitical positioning, he says old European recipes no longer work and a more honest debate about trade-offs is needed, asking whether Europe can still thrive as a low-risk, low-return society.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/eurosclerosis-20-in-a-changing-world-from-repetition-to-rupt-37084/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/events/2026-27/eurosclerosis-2.0-in-a-changing-world-from-repetition-to-rupture", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/96d32c90ea5e6b37e1b9c6e15a161102245005990f34687068b6a9c0f4b3fa0e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Pan-Africanism: a history", "start": "2026-10-29T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-10-29T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history"], "description": "A Black History Month talk titled Pan-Africanism: a history, hosted by the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The speaker is Hakim Adi, an award-winning academic and activist and the first historian of African heritage to become a professor of history in Britain, chaired by Dr Alex Mayhew. He surveys the centuries-long struggles for the rights of Africa and its diaspora, tracing demands such as reparations back to at least the late 17th century. 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Rozie Kelly, a West Yorkshire novelist who won the 2024 NorthBound Book Award, reads from her debut Kingfisher, a novel of queer desire, ambition and obsession following a creative writing academic fixated on a lauded author colleague. Marcia Hutchinson, a former lawyer and MBE recipient, presents The Mercy Step, a tender and sharp-witted portrait of a young girl navigating Black British family life and survival in 1960s Bradford. 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It explores four distinct hairwork techniques from the Georgian and Victorian eras, their applications for the deceased, the living, or both, and the cultural contexts that shaped them. The craft was long a cherished folk art, and hair locks were kept as portable human relics to maintain an earthly bond with the departed. Abney Park itself is part of this story, as one of the Magnificent Seven garden cemeteries that drew the dead further from their families than ever before.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/forever-near-hairwork-history-and-techniques-36354/", "official_url": "https://abneypark.org/upcoming-events/2026/8/31/forever-near-a-history-of-hairwork", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/e8c2689576cdd699a384782722c9a602bf587aba1d84a67db9d9c4bd3e361835-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Amputation: A Dramatic Act", "start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hunterian Museum", "address": "Lincoln's Inn Fields 35-43, WC2A 3PE London", "price": "£8", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting", "history/medical-history"], "description": "A talk titled 'Amputation: A Dramatic Act' at the Hunterian Museum. It is given by Dawn Kemp, Director of Museums at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and tells the story of an oil painting from the mid-1700s that was stolen from the museum in the 1980s and recently recovered. The painting shows a male patient undergoing the amputation of his left leg, and the talk presents new evidence about who, what, where and why it depicts. 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Best-selling author Audrey Niffenegger appears live in conversation with author Anna James to celebrate the release of her new novel, Life Out Of Order, the long-awaited sequel to her acclaimed debut The Time Traveler's Wife. Niffenegger is a visual artist and writer who has published six books, including the novels The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, and teaches in the Fiction Department of Columbia College. 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Artist Jenkin van Zyl, who works in film, sculpture and performance, joins Adam Alston, a theatre scholar at Goldsmiths, University of London. They discuss the ideas and processes behind van Zyl's new film and installation Enclosure, covering how technology can advance faster than meaning, maintenance as a form of denial, and systems outliving their usefulness. 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It covers key works including the series Sites and Places: Athens (1986-1997) and Sites and Places: Vancouver (1990-2015), which reflect on the layered nature of history, moving cultures and the presence of Greek mythology in present-day life. Dikeakos' long-standing fascination with collecting is also explored through The Collectors, a series of portraits of artists, patrons, curators, writers and art lovers.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/in-conversation-christos-dikeakos-and-emily-butler-39350/", "official_url": "https://helleniccentre.org/event/artist-talk-christos-dikeakos/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/1c3dee30717f0b9b6d5fc4eebe6edd6be5cec5e52d6ef73d189840da6adbce52-600.webp"}, {"title": "Under the Covers: Andrew Davies", "start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The London Library", "address": "St James's Square 14, SW1Y 4LG London", "price": "From £8", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/the-londonlibrary/items/743731/availability/2118374226/book/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/memoir", "film"], "description": "An in-person evening talk at The London Library where screenwriter Andrew Davies sits on the biblio-couch with bibliotherapist Ella Berthoud. 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Eliot Prize-winning poet Joelle Taylor and Olive Franklin, with readings from the writers' collective Page of Wands and open mic slots. Taylor is the author of four poetry collections, including 2025's Maryville, whose C+NTO & Othered Poems won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Polari Book Prize; she is a former UK Poetry Slam Champion and hosts Out-Spoken at the Southbank Centre. Franklin's debut pamphlet Dyke Juvenilia won the Poetry London Pamphlet Competition, and her poems have appeared in Granta, Poetry and The Poetry Review. 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Continuing the storytelling tradition established by his father, David Rattray, he brings to life the human experience of the battlefield: the decisions, the courage, the confusion, and the profound cost of conflict. The lecture offers a deeply moving exploration of one of the most significant events in British and Zulu history, focusing not only on the course of the battle, but on the individuals who lived, fought, and died there. 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