Humanitarianism is under pressure, and the way we think about humanity, war and suffering is changing. The Humanitarian Archive Emergency highlights the urgent…

From the battlefields of the nineteenth century to today’s wars and humanitarian crises, this conversation with Professor Bertrand Taithe opens vital reflections on how modern compassion was…

In this EXPeditions video, Professor Nivi Manchanda provides a critical exploration of how imperial discourse and representation shape our understanding of Afghanistan

Join the EXPeditions base camp! Each month, we explore innovative ideas featured on our platform. What drives social change? Why do the arts and humanities…

Imagine that human societies had not changed from their earliest times up to the present day – how would we all be living now? The really important element of social change is: how can societies…

The Odyssey is the hero’s story of travel, adventure and coming home – a myth of myths.

Join the EXPeditions base camp! Each month, we explore innovative ideas featured on our platform. How do we live with Climate Change? A Conversation with Neil…

Join the EXPeditions base camp! Each month, we explore innovative ideas featured on our platform. Science as a Calling For some, science is a career. For many,…

We consistently find that people who are engaged more regularly in arts activities over time have lower odds of developing mental health problems. Professor of Psychobiology and Epidemiology, Daisy Fa...

Join the EXPeditions base camp! Each month, we explore innovative ideas featured on our platform. Science as a Calling For some, science is a career. For many,…

Join the EXPeditions base camp! Each month, we explore innovative ideas featured on our platform. Science as a Calling For some, science is a career. For many,…

Join the EXPeditions base camp! Each month, we explore innovative ideas featured on our platform. Science as a Calling For some, science is a career. For many,…

We are the first species to reach this level of consciousness — perhaps the only one in the galaxy, or even in the universe at this moment. But there is a price that comes with this level of conscious...

Join the EXPeditions base camp! Each month, we explore innovative ideas featured on our platform. Science as a Calling For some, science is a career. For many,…

For Konstantin Novoselov, art is another form of exploration — driven by intuition, passion and joy. His artistic practice reveals the same curiosity about creation, language, and complexity that…

Exoplanet research has revealed planets everywhere and in far greater diversity than expected. The question of planets quickly becomes a question about the possibility of life. Nobel Laureate, Didier…

Join the EXPeditions base camp! Each month, we explore innovative ideas featured on our platform. Science as a Calling For some, science is a career. For many,…

You create a new paradigm, one paradigm is replaced by another: this is how scientific discovery works. From graphene to functional materials, progress comes from shifting perspectives and embracing c...

Science is always grounded in data. Theories evolve, but data remain. In this EXPeditions video, Professor Didier Queloz, Nobel Laureate in Physics, highlights that science is driven by an ongoing eff...

We still don’t understand how complex systems find the pathway out of chaos and emerge from randomness. Understanding this pathway may lead us toward understanding the origin of life.

Understanding volcanoes has been woven together with our understanding of the structure of the Earth. In this Expeditions video, Professor of Earth Sciences, Tamsin Mather talks about the power of…

I have been part of a collective enterprise over the last 50 years trying to understand how the universe evolved from that beginning to its present stage – how the first galaxies formed, how the first...

There is nothing that art and culture cannot achieve, even—perhaps especially—in troubled times of war. Marina Warner in her book “Sanctuary” tells the story of Din and Maga, two young refugees who ha...

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There is a way in which the current of imagination, as it flows into a work of art, is a form of play – and that is essential to human well-being.

Marina Warner in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi about her latest book Join the EXPeditions book club! Each month, we read a book written by one of the…

YouTube video by EXPeditions - The living library of knowledge

Formerly Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge, I am the Director of the Leverhulme Trust and an economist of education.

YouTube video by EXPeditions - The living library of knowledge

YouTube video by EXPeditions - The living library of knowledge

Decolonisation, as a process, has more or less run its course, but not entirely. There is a small number of colonies that exist.