Telling better stories (In-person)

About this event

This event takes place on our Cambridge campus. You can also join us virtually.

Please join us for the talk from 18:00, with a drinks reception from 19:00.

We live by stories. But if the world is to survive, and humans are to find ways of co-existing on and with a broken planet, we need better ones. We must ask what kind of stories will help us to imagine and enact safer communities, kinder politics, and a habitable world. And we must not be willing to compromise on the telling of these stories. In this inaugural lecture, I ask how can we tell better stories about our work, our world, and our future, and consider what we might salvage, even gain, in the process.

About our speaker

Nick Caddick is Professor of Political Sociology and Deputy Director of the Veterans and Families Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. His work explores how narrative and storytelling shape the world around us, from the stories of everyday people to the global political forces that make and change our world. His recent works includes the 2024 book “The cultural politics of veterans’ narratives” in which he considered how veterans’ storytelling after war shapes our understanding of the morality and politics of war, and the paper ‘Film, narrative agency, and the politics of care in veteran Britain’, published in the Review of International Studies, exploring how filmmaking can provide opportunities for crafting new meaning and identity in the aftermath of military life. Currently, his work investigates the ‘politics of storytelling’ across various issues in global politics.

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