Evolving Society

How do we improve the quality of people’s lives and tackle the great global challenges of our times? Join leading economist Mariana Mazzucato and the co-author of the best-selling The Spirit Level, Kate Pickett.

How do we find a space to talk about what’s really important at work? Join us for a special screening of the film Any Other Business followed by a panel discussion of the issues raised.

Why do we feel emotions like compassion or sympathy - and such joy in social connection? Find out how archaeological evidence helps us to reconstruct how our ‘better natures’ developed in the distant past.

Discover the fundamental role companies can play in driving sustainable consumption patterns through new business models which look beyond the ‘green consumer’.

Learn about the history of health inequality in Britain over the past 2,000 years and discover if we can do better in the future.

The Global South undoubtedly bears the brunt of global climate change, biodiversity loss and extinctions. Learn more about the relationship between humans and animals, scientific ecology and the protection of nature.

Cyberpsychology researchers Nicola Fox Hamilton and Catherine Talbot examine how we choose to present ourselves online and how we attempt to manage the impressions others form of us.

How have, do and can Science and Religion relate to one another? Nick Spencer of the think tank Theos explores centuries of complex and colourful interaction between the two.

View Tribute Ink, a touring exhibition by the Royal British Legion. Discover how tattoos have become central to Remembrance and commemoration in our Armed Forces community and explore the stories behind them.

What lessons can we take forward from our time in lockdown to ensure business, culture, and learning become more inclusive for people with chronic and long-term conditions? Join writer and blogger Pippa Stacey.

Hope matters. More so in the uncertain times which we live. But how do we understand hope? Join in the discussion as our expert panel of speakers explores the horizons of hope.

View Tribute Ink, a touring exhibition by the Royal British Legion. Discover how tattoos have become central to Remembrance and commemoration in our Armed Forces community and explore the stories behind them.

Join author Robert Penn for a tale of rediscovery and a celebration of the everyday miracle of homemade bread.

Meet inspiring University of York PhD students and learn how their cutting-edge research is expanding knowledge and understanding of our world and beyond.

Award-winning Guardian columnist Oliver Burkeman provides an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management.

Join in the discussion as Citizens Advice York explores how barriers to technology have impacted York residents in the Covid-19 pandemic.

Using humorous insights from her past and present, multi-award-winning comedy and drama writer Georgia Pritchett reflects on a life lived anxiously.

View Tribute Ink, a touring exhibition by the Royal British Legion. Discover how tattoos have become central to Remembrance and commemoration in our Armed Forces community and explore the stories behind them.

Linguists Rachel Wicaksono and Dasha Zhurauskaya explore the mechanics of storytelling, focusing on the stories of a ‘hidden’ population of migrants in the city of York.

How do we bring humanity into a sweet spot that meets the needs of all within the means of the planet? Economist Kate Raworth discusses her internationally acclaimed Doughnut Economics.

View Tribute Ink, a touring exhibition by the Royal British Legion. Discover how tattoos have become central to Remembrance and commemoration in our Armed Forces community and explore the stories behind them.

Somali-British justice activist, author and former elected politician Magid Magid presents a guide to being courageous, doing better and disrupting the age-old power structures in work, life and politics.

No preaching. No judgement. No guilt. Join author Jen Gale for easy, do-able, guilt-free eco-ideas for raising your children.

What are the alternatives to capitalism? Alasdair Lord explores key aspects of post-capitalist systems in his Renaissance Yorkshireman Podcast.

Warm up for the re-scheduled Euro 2020 soccer tournament with former Premier League and FIFA listed referee Keith Hackett.

Where did the idea of human dignity come from, and how is it holding up in the 21st century? Join Peter Collier QC.

View Tribute Ink, a touring exhibition by the Royal British Legion. Discover how tattoos have become central to Remembrance and commemoration in our Armed Forces community and explore the stories behind them.

View Tribute Ink, a touring exhibition by the Royal British Legion. Discover how tattoos have become central to Remembrance and commemoration in our Armed Forces community and explore the stories behind them.

View Tribute Ink, a touring exhibition by the Royal British Legion. Discover how tattoos have become central to Remembrance and commemoration in our Armed Forces community and explore the stories behind them.

Join us for a special film screening of Industry Voices followed by a discussion of the issues raised. Discover why the lack of diversity in the film and TV sector impacts not only on those working in the industry, but on those watching too.

View Tribute Ink, a touring exhibition by the Royal British Legion. Discover how tattoos have become central to Remembrance and commemoration in our Armed Forces community and explore the stories behind them.

What does ‘levelling up the economy’ mean? Is it just a new name for an old idea? And most crucially, is it possible? Our expert speakers discuss the challenges.

Join Susan Halfpenny, Stephanie Jesper and Siobhan Dunlop of the University of York as they voyage into our possible futures, reimagining our digital horizons.

View Tribute Ink, a touring exhibition by the Royal British Legion. Discover how tattoos have become central to Remembrance and commemoration in our Armed Forces community and explore the stories behind them.

Olivier Urbain of the Min-On Music Research Institute, Tokyo, explores the intersection between musicking and peacebuilding.

Our expert panel reveals how a green recovery could create millions of jobs, promote our health and wellbeing, and lead us to a fairer, more resilient future.

View Tribute Ink, a touring exhibition by the Royal British Legion. Discover how tattoos have become central to Remembrance and commemoration in our Armed Forces community and explore the stories behind them.

Drawing on sources from the Bible to literature and social media, author Jessica Martin considers what a distinctive holiness might look like within the distorting pressures of our highly sexualised modern culture.

View Tribute Ink, a touring exhibition by the Royal British Legion. Discover how tattoos have become central to Remembrance and commemoration in our Armed Forces community and explore the stories behind them.

View Tribute Ink, a touring exhibition by the Royal British Legion. Discover how tattoos have become central to Remembrance and commemoration in our Armed Forces community and explore the stories behind them.

Join Jennifer Allison of the Army Museums Ogilby Trust to discover the history of tattooing policy and culture in the British Army.

Political philosopher Michael J Sandel of Harvard University argues it’s time to rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalisation and rising inequality.

Our speakers, including Dorothy Byrne, former Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4 News, examine the future of the media, discussing issues including impartiality, funding, populism and speaking truth to power.

Faced with creeping authoritarianism, a new agenda for liberalism is needed. Historian and Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash explores the future of liberalism in a post-Covid world.

York is proud to be a host city for the 2021 Rugby League World Cup this autumn. Warm up for this exciting global event by hearing from those involved in its planning, preparation and legacy.

Discover how Weavr is providing new and exciting horizons for esports spectators, coaches and broadcasters with Florian Block of the University of York.

Join the Guardian’s parliamentary sketch writer John Crace and journalist Tim Dowling for some humorous, razor-sharp insights into modern-day Britain.