Stuart Elden has written a wonderful book for an English speaking audience on Georges Canguilhem, historian, philosopher of science, and author - most famously - of The Normal and the Pathological. A philosopher of history too, Canguilhem’s discussions of truth, knowledge and ideology are well worth re-apprising in the contemporary moment. CRASSH provides an appropriately interdisciplinary forum for the occasion.

Stefan Collini is one of our most insightful commentators on the state of the state of the academy and its role in public life. I’ll be joining in a roundtable co-hosted by Norwegian Academy of Sciences in advance of a public lecture by Prof. Collini in the afternoon.

Simon will be responding to the launch of the new International Panel on Social Progress Report at the House of Lords in Westminster. Lord Meghnad Desai will begin the program and moderate the discussions. Panelists will include IPSP authors Marc Fleurbaey (Steering Committee), Marie-Laure Djelic (Steering Committee), Richard Bellamy, Graham Smith, Gianluca Grimalda, Simon Deakin, Lorraine Talbot and Simon Reid-Henry.

​​​​Syria is dying, the International Criminal Court is collapsing and the era of Brexit and Trump-ism is looming​: What is our proper role as researchers in the public debate?​​