When?: 6-8 pm
Where?: Room B33, Malet Street

Can and should photographers capture the complexity of the political process? Is the relationship between photography and political advocacy changing? Can photographs tell us anything about politics that we do not already know? In this panel discussion, three renowned photographers will show a selection of their work and talk about the changing relationship between politics and photography.

Martin Argles has photographed British politics for thirty years and until recently was staff photographer for The Guardian. In 2010, he was named the SABMiller Photographer of the Year in the Picture Editors' Guild Awards for his photo essay on Gordon Brown's final days as Prime Minister.

Melanie Friend is a photographer, photojournalist and Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex. Her exhibition, Border Country, which uses sound and image to focus on asylum seekers and migrants in detention in the UK, was nominated for the European Central Bank Europe Annual Photography Award 2008. Follow Melanie on Twitter @MelanieFriend57

Carlos Reyes Manzo is a documentary photographer and poet. His work deals with people who are marginalised from society and who suffer human rights abuses. He has covered events ranging from the Nicaraguan revolution to famine in Ethiopia. In 2014, he was chosen as the first Ben Pimlott Writer in Residence at Birkbeck College. Follow Carlos on Twitter @reyesmanzo

Chair: Dermot Hodson

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When?: 6-7.30 pm
When?: B33, Malet Street

World-famous historian Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) joined the Communist party in 1931, and remained a committed communist for many decades thereafter. In this talk, Sir Richard Evans (Regius Professor of History at Cambridge) discusses Professor Hobsbawm's politics and early career, setting his political engagement in the historical context of its times, and asking what it meant to be both a communist and an historian. Follow Richard on Twitter @RichardEvans36

Chair: John Arnold

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When?: 6-7.30 pm
Where?: B33, Malet Street

In this topical talk, Diane Horn will examine how the risk of flooding can be reduced and how government policy and insurers can provide incentives to reduce the risks.

Chair: Karen Wells

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When?: 6-8 pm
Where?: Room B33, Malet Street

Marx famously wrote: 'Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.' Social scientists, philosophers and historians continue to share some sense of present, political engagement; but in order to make a difference in the world, it is necessary also to understand how and why it changes. To address that challenge this round-table brings together experts from six different disciplines, to discuss what 'change' means from their disciplinary context, and to see what perspectives can be thrown upon 'change' when looking at it comparatively, across time, space, culture and methodologies.

Participants include: Edwin Bacon, Jennifer Hornsby, Kate Maclean, Malcolm Edwards, Leticia Sabsay and Casper Meyer.

Chair: Miriam Zukas

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