In Conversation with Angela Saini

Wed Aug 23 2023 at 01:30 pm to 02:30 pm

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - Lecture Theatre | Edinburgh

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In Conversation with Angela Saini
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In conversation with award-winning science journalist and author Angela Saini
About this Event

We are delighted to welcome award-winning science journalist, author and broadcaster Angela Saini to the Garden to discuss her work on gender inequality and race science. Enjoy a complimentary cup of chai from Dishoom included with the ticket.


More about Angela Saini:

Angela Saini is an award-winning journalist based in New York, known globally for her work on race and gender. She has presented science programmes on BBC radio and television, and her writing has appeared in National Geographic, Wired, the Lancet and Nature.

She is the author of four books, including Superior: The Return of Race Science, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, which has been translated into fourteen languages. Both are on university reading lists across the world. Her latest book The Patriarchs, on the origins of patriarchy, was hailed as a highlight for 2023 by the Financial Times, Guardian and New Statesman.

Angela has a Masters in Engineering from the University of Oxford and has been a Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Humboldt Foundation in Berlin. In 2020 she was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine. She has delivered distinguished lectures and keynotes at Oxford, Yale, Princeton and CERN in Geneva.


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - Lecture Theatre, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Tickets

GBP 4.00 to GBP 5.00

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