Captain John Noel pioneered high-altitude expeditionary film. Join Jan Faull for an illustrated talk discussing the production, technology and presentation of films made on successive Everest expeditions between 1922 and 1953. These films showed some of the first moving images of Tibet and cemented the image of Everest and the Himalayan people in the British imagination.
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Respatialising finance: offshore renminbi market making in London - Professor Sarah Hall
Sarah examines power, politics and offshore renminbi market making in London.
Creative approaches to race and in/security in the Caribbean and the UK - Dr Patricia Noxolo
Pat discusses her one-year engagement project. CARICUK challenges Geography educators, at all levels, to think differently about race.
Strange natures: conservation in the era of synthetic biology - Professor Bill Adams
Is gene editing a vital tool in the conservation toolbox, or a threat to wild nature?