Join 5×15, Leverhulme Trust and EXPeditions for a special event at Conway Hall this November, featuring five past winners of the prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize.
Groundbreaking researchers will share insights into their work and discuss how academic research can tackle the biggest challenges of our time. In a world where disinformation is a growing threat, and fake news is just a click away, their expertise is more crucial than ever in shaping a clearer, more informed future.
Speakers
- Santanu Das is a Research Fellow and Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Old Souls College, University of Oxford. He works on early twentieth-century literature and culture and is especially interested in the relationship between experience, writing and emotion in times of conflict. He is a 2010 Philip Leverhulme Prize winner.
- Daisy Fancourt is a Professor of Psychobiology and Epidemiology at University College London and head of the Social Biobehavioural Research Group. Her research focuses on the effects of social connections and behaviours on health. She is the author of Art Cure and a 2018 Philip Leverhulme Prize winner.
- Naoíse Mac Sweeney is a Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on the construction of identity and cultural interaction. She is the author of The West and a 2015 Philip Leverhulme Prize winner.
- Simon Reid-Henry is a Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Honorary Professor of Historical and Political Geography at Queen Mary University of London, and a civil society advocate and writer. His research applies an interdisciplinary focus to the making and application of political, economic, technical and legal forms of knowledge. He is the author of The Empire of Democracy and a 2011 Philip Leverhulme Prize winner.
- Tiffany Watt Smith is an historian of emotions. She is Reader Emerita at Queen Mary University of London, where she ran the Centre for the History of Emotions. She writes about the cultural and historical forces that shape our most intimate worlds, and has won multiple awards for her research and writing. She is the author of Bad Friend, and a 2018 Philip Leverhulme Prize winner.
Hosted by Simon Goldhill, Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Cambridge. He is co-director of Humanity’s Urban Future programme and a fellow of the British Academy. His research areas are in Greek literature and culture of all periods and also in Victorian Britain, the history of sexuality, the history of culture and what makes a good city.
