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Theme: The Crossroads of Conflict

Our two launch night events which look at the world’s response to global crises.

What's on

Festival themes

• Structures of the Mind: Architecture and Innovation
• Arts and Society: Order, Chaos and Culture
• Revealing the Ancient World
• Creative Writing
• Empire and Trade
• Eoforwic: A celebration of Anglian York
• Economic growth for the many, not the few
• An Appetite for Food
• Interventions in Healthcare
• Maps and Exploration
• Murder They Wrote
• Performance
• Religion and Science
• Science: Out of the lab
• Shadows of War
• Sparks
• Our brain: The unknown frontier
• Transport and Tribulations: Going the extra mile
• The war that changed our world

Festival focus days

• Future of Food
  Saturday 14 June
• Economic Growth for the Many, not the Few
  Friday 20 June
• Murder They Wrote
  Saturday 21 June