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Society of Graphic Fine Art Members Only Regional Exhibition

The University of Hull is hosting an exhibition of work by members of the Society of Graphic Fine Art (SGFA). 

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Scottish Colourists from the Fleming Collection

The University of Hull will be showing a major exhibition, Scottish Colourists from the Fleming Collection from 25 May to 15 July 2018.

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Painting Power: the art of Terence Cuneo

Painting Power: The Art of Terence Cuneo is the Science Museum Group’s contribution to Hull UK City of Culture 2017.

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Cairns

An exhibition of life size sculptures by Icelandic artist Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir placed around the campus, stimulating thought and reflection about the historic connection between Iceland and Hull. 

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Theatre Through The Decades A musical theatre extravaganza with orchestra

This musical theatre showcase takes the audience through the last century of musical theatre.

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Musical Beginnings: Inspirations and Memories

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Anti-slavery politics in the Age of Reform

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OpenCampus Tea-Time Talks - Fear of childbirth

Tea-Time Talks - The mental health of pregnant women and new mums: ‘Fear of childbirth; considering the continuum of expectant mothers’ fear, from almost free of fear to severe or disabling fear.'

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Talegate Theatre Company Presents The Little Mermaid, shrimply the best panto

Swimming to Middleton Hall this Easter 2019

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OpenCampus Literary Landscapes Reading Group: ‘Wind in the Willows (1908)’ by Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows (1908), hosted by Sue Hull

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OpenCampus Culture Café Talks - Geology, Environment & Marine Sciences

GEMS of Hull: Geology, Environment, Marine Science and Us Series 2:  Talk by Professor Mike Rogerson and Laura Bastianini

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Theatre for Children

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Nothing Like The Sun: The Gavin Bryars Ensemble

Commissioned by Opera North and the Royal Shakespeare Company, this haunting, dramatic piece for chamber group and voices weaves Gavin Bryars’ music through eight of Shakespeare's most meditative sonnets. The ensemble includes Bryars himself, tenor John Potter, American soprano Claron McFadden and cult Dublin singer-songwriter Gavin Friday. The selected poems focus on themes of time and memory, and each sonnet is spoken by Friday before Potter and McFadden sing Bryars’ setting, allowing for...

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The Shifting Status of of Authors in the World: Randomness and Unpredictability

The Garnet Rees Memorial Lecture 2019 - Speaker Professor Susan Bassnett, Professor of Comparative Literature at the Universities of Glasgow and Warwick. 

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General Systems Theory and its Relevance in Today’s World: Tackling the Grand Challenges of Our Time

The Centre for Systems Studies 2019 Annual Mike Jackson Lecture on Systems Thinking

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The Battle of the Atlantic over Two World Wars

Blaydes House Maritime History Seminar Series 2018-19
The Battle of the Atlantic over Two World Wars
Michael Duffy, University of Exeter

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Language Advocacy and Activism: the View from Wales

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Walter Presents to Yorkshire

Join us for an evening with Walter Iuzzolino - the curator of Walter Presents – who will talk about the ground-breaking channel’s vision for world drama, and be the first to see the first episode of their dazzling new show ‘The Mafia only Kills in Summer’.

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OpenCampus Tea-Time Talks - ‘Bonding with the unborn baby’

Tea-Time Talks - The mental health of pregnant women and new mums

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The Newland Lectures - Policing Performance

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Freedom Talks: In conversation with Guardian investigative journalist Annie Kelly

A landmark Bill to help eradicate modern slavery received Royal Assent on 26 March 2015. The Modern Slavery Act was the first of its kind in Europe, and one of the first in the world, to specifically address slavery and trafficking in the 21st century.
 

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Nansica’s Liberty

Come and experience a thought-provoking and engaging night of story, dance, poetry, and art hosted by the Afro Street Dance Society.

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Alexandra Vaduva in Recital

Scarlatti - Sonatas K380 in E major (Cortege) and K9 in D minor (Pastorale)
Schubert - Sonata D537 in A minor
Enescu - Suite op. 3 no. 1 (Dans le style ancien)
Bartok - Suite op. 14
Enescu - Choral and Carillon nocturne from Suite op. 18 no. 3
Beethoven - Sonata op. 27 no.2 in C sharp minor (Moonlight)

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The Full Rich Life and the Abuses of Literacy: Why we need to keep reading Richard Hoggart

Speaker: Lynsey Hanley – Author and Broadcaster
 

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Ferens Fine Art Lecture - Sabina Jaskot-Gill of the National Portrait Gallery, London

Ferens Fine Art Lecture Series 2019

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OpenCampus Literary Landscapes Reading Group: ‘Three Men in a Boat (1889)’ by Jerome K Jerome

Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (1889), hosted by David Bagchi

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OpenCampus Culture Café Talks – Hull to South Georgia

GEMS of Hull: Geology, Environment, Marine Science and Us Series 2:  'From Hull to South Georgia: the Antarctic from the heroic age of adventure to the present-day'

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Perpetual Motion Machine

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Creating the Past: Cultural Programming inspired by Heritage within Hull UK City of Culture 2017

A free public seminar organised by Culture, Place and Policy Institute

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Advancing freedom and social justice: new insights from radical and alternative models of schooling

Dr Max A. Hope, University of Hull

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Ferens Fine Art Lecture - Paul Berriff OBE

Ferens Fine Art Lecture Series 2019
 

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Turning the Tide

A Powerful Multi-Media Production

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Drip Drip Drip, a darkly comic and taboo-busting new play

Pipeline Theatre, known for indelible characters and breathtaking production values, take you on a break-neck, darkly comic and taboo-busting journey, through an NHS phantasmagoria

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“Building Justice Behind Prison Walls”

– Inspired in Hull with Marcella Goligher, Governor of HMP Humber Part of the International Women’s Day Celebrations

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HEARO Diffusion

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Human trafficking, exploitation and modern slavery

Human trafficking, exploitation and modern slavery - the evolution of the prosecution and thinking out of the box

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FameLab Regional Final 2019

Come and join us for the FameLab Regional Final

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Ferens Fine Art Lecture - Lee Karen Stow

Ferens Fine Art Lecture Series 2019

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What does it mean to be Human? God, Neuroscience and Human Identity

What does it mean to be human? Can we solve the mystery of who we are by learning more about the brain? Or are we more than the sum total of our neurons? Join Professor John Wyatt as he explores this fascinating and multi-dimensional topic.

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The Newland Lectures - Investigating Historical Instruments

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Working Women in Eighteenth-Century Maritime London

Blaydes House Maritime History Seminar Series 2018-19
Working Women in Eighteenth-Century Maritime London
Margarette Lincoln, Goldsmiths, University of London

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Weather Beaten Album Launch, Katie Spencer + support

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Mali Hayes

A Jazzy-Nu-R&B type Neo Soul.
Supported by Future Bubblers & Help Musicians UK!
 

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FameLab Returns – Could you be the next Champion Science Communicator?

The search is on for the new voices of science communication!

The University of Hull is hosting heats of FameLab, the UK’s biggest communications competition to discover new talent to engage and entertain the public in breaking down science, engineering, technology and maths concepts into three-minute talks.

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OpenCampus Tea-Time Talks - ‘Mental health in pregnancy, birth and the transition to motherhood’

Tea-Time Talks - The mental health of pregnant women and new mums: 'Love, Guilt and Separation

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When Cellos Speak…  Music & The Holocaust

A collaboration in words and music between Martin Goodman (writer) and Brice Catherin (cellist).

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Ensemble 360: ‘Giddy Goat’ Family Concert with Narrator Ruth Rosales

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The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities between Growth and Distress

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The Newland Lectures - Benjamin Britten and the Prodigal Sons

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Lost Voice Guy

Gag Reflex in association with Andrew Roach Talent
presents

LOST VOICE GUY

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University of Hull NQT Conference 2019

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Elias String Quartet

Mozart: String Quartet in D minor K421
Britten: String Quartet no. 2 in C major
Schumann: String Quartet no. 1 in A minor

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Watching the Detectives: Promoting and Sustaining an Ethical Police Force

The Institute of Applied Ethics is excited to host a session with Matt Baldwin, head of the Humberside Police Professional Standards Department.

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OpenCampus Literary Landscapes Reading Group: ‘Wuthering Heights (1847)’, by Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), hosted by Ruth Quinn
 

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OpenCampus Culture Café Talks - Geology, Environment & Marine Sciences: ‘Geological Gems and Jewels’

GEMS of Hull: Geology, Environment, Marine Science and Us Series 2

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Oríkì Mi

Join PhD student Stella Odunlami for Oríkì Mi.

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Filmmaker Pamela Tom presents her documentary, Tyrus – 7 Feb 2019

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What’s going on at the Wilberforce Institute?

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The Newland Lectures - Adventures in Music PR

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Myths and Broadsides in the Naval Ideology of the Later Stuart Age:

Blaydes House Maritime History Seminar Series 2018-19
Myths and Broadsides in the Naval Ideology of the Later Stuart Age: or, how to make Christopher Columbus an Englishman
J.D. Davies, Society for Nautical Research

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Winterreise James Newby, baritone Gary Matthewman, piano

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The City of Culture archive: Sharing with the World what was ‘Made in Hull’ - Simon Wilson

We are seeking to preserve, catalogue and make available to the public the City of Culture archive whilst Hull is still UK City of Culture - that is by December 2020.

Working closely with the University's Culture, Place and Policy Institute the archive seeks to appeal to academic audiences but also to a public which has demonstrated a huge appetite for engaging with culture. We also want to ensure that the legacy and momentum from 2017 is not lost and hope that the archive itself will inspire...

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The Young ‘Uns, The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff

Three time BBC Radio 2 Folk award winners The Young 'uns present a new and unique piece of modern folk theatre.

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The Greatest Showcase

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OpenCampus Tea-Time Talks - ‘Maternal Wellbeing’

Tea-Time Talks - The mental health of pregnant women and new mums

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An evening with astronaut Michael Foale

Struggling to find a gift for an avid space fan? Need something fun in the calendar to make January more bearable? Or maybe you’re just keen to see the homecoming of one of the world’s most experienced astronauts? Whatever your motivation, we’ve got just the thing...

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OpenCampus Literary Landscapes Reading Group: ‘The Woman in Black (1983)’ by Susan Hill

Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black (1983), hosted by Aly Edwards

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Mermaids Ashore: Norwegian seamen’s wives and the transformation of Norwegian shipping 1960-1990

Blaydes House Maritime History Seminar Series 2018-19
Mermaids Ashore: Norwegian seamen's wives and the transformation of Norwegian shipping 1960-1990
Stig Tenold, Norwegian Business School

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Hull Gotta Sing

School Choirs and Community Choirs will sing an array of songs of their choice. The evening will be complemented by talented, local, young solo singers.

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AFO Choir Christmas Carol

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OpenCampus Tea-Time Talk - ‘From superego to super gut’

OpenCampus Tea-Time Talk - ‘From superego to super gut: Transitioning from psychoanalysis to psychobiology in understanding the relationship of food to reproductive mental wellbeing’

Speaker: Professor Colin R. Martin, Professor of Perinatal Mental Health, University of Hull.

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MESG Research Seminar US-Israel Relationships 1947-2001 Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Middle East Study Group Research Seminar  US-Israel Relationships 1947-2001  Professor Raphael Cohen Almagor

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Christmas Concert

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Winter Song

Get into the Christmas spirit with an evening of a capella music in the style of Barbershop Harmony, presented by Hull University Barbershop Society, Humber Harmony, with special guests The Emerald Guard.

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100 Demons: Hull by Manchester Collective

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Symphonie pour une Femme Seule

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‘Presenting “Slavery and the Country House”: the English Heritage experience’

‘Presenting “Slavery and the Country House”: the English Heritage experience’, by Dr Andrew Hann

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Festival Concert

The University of Hull boasts an array of ensembles directed by our music staff, providing students with expert guidance to realise their musical potential. 

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‘Seaside Communities’ and ‘Kid Miners’

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The Long ‘Lost’ History of Bottom Trawling in British and Irish Waters

Blaydes House Maritime History Seminar Series October-December 2018
The Long ‘Lost’ History of Bottom Trawling in British and Irish Waters - Dr Peter Jones (University of Leicester)

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Hull Alumni: Women in Leadership

We are proud of the many women who have studied at Hull and who have made a difference in their workplaces, their communities and their industries. To celebrate our brilliant Hull Alumnae, we're renaming six of our lecture theatres after graduates who are making a huge impact as women in leadership. Join us in conversation with some of those being honoured, and let's make a noise for the successes and achievements of the women in our University of Hull community.

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Spotlight: HUPAS Winter Showcase 2018

A fantastic musical theatre extravaganza

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OpenCampus Reading Group –The Hate U Give (T.H.U.G.) (2017), Angie Thomas.

OpenCampus Reading Group – North American Fictions The Hate U Give (T.H.U.G.) (2017), Angie Thomas. 
 

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Hull University Music Society Winter Concert

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The Institute of Applied Ethics presents: ‘What Brexit tells us about the British’

By Professor Danny Dorling (University of Oxford)

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Northern Chords Ensemble

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‘Cowboys and Indians: A 21st Century Western’ Annual Public History Lecture with Dale Turner

Professor Dale Turner, Department of Native Studies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA

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Inner City Blues: Motown Revisited

Third-year music students from the University of Hull present a programme of music drawn from one of the most important record labels of the twentieth century.

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Living Notes: Music of Our Time

An hour of music by student composers
 

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OpenCampus Tea-Time Talk - ‘Fit for pregnancy’

Speaker: Professor Lesley Smith, Professor of Women’s Public Health, University of Hull.

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Jean Toussaint Allstar 5tet – Hull Jazz Festival

Jean Toussaint – Tenor Saxophone
Percy Pursglove – Trumpet
Andrew McCormack – Piano
Daniel Casimir – Bass
Shane Forbes - Drums

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The Inaugural Canham Turner Public Lecture Series: Carol Ann Duffy

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy to read a selection of her work to kick off the public lecture series

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Dinosaur – Hull Jazz Festival

Led by Laura Jurd (trumpet and synths) with Elliot Galvin (synths), Conor Chaplin (bass), Corrie Dick (drums)

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‘Distant Freedom: St Helena and the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1840-1872’

‘Distant Freedom: St Helena and the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1840-1872’, by Dr Andrew Pearson

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Shakespeare Schools Festival

Shakespeare Schools Foundation is proud to present the world’s largest youth drama festival at The Gulbenkian Centre.

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Cultural Policy, Professional Ethics and the Public Good

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OpenCampus Reading Group – North American Fictions The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (1839-45)

Speaker: Peter Asquith-Cowen.
 

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From Byrd to the Bees

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Annual St John’s College Lecture: Networking Vikings

Annual St John's College Lecture: Networking Vikings: Medieval Learned Contacts and Connections in the North of England and Beyond

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The Threat of the Use of Force in WMD Counterproliferation

The Threat of the Use of Force in WMD Counterproliferation: Comparing the cases of Syria, Iran and North Korea. 

Professor Christoph Bluth, Professor of International Relations and Security University of Bradford. 

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