you heard that i teach at the university of cambridge. you may be wondering if i took a wrong turn somewhere since the university of cambridge is on the other side of the atlantic, i have spent the last ten years there and have just i'm ninth day into my retirement and am a fellow this year at the harvard radcliffe institute. and i'm delighted to be in this cambridge. i'm delighted to have an opportunity to talk with maurice about this wonderful book he has written. we go back decades, although we have not seen each other, we're trying to figure this out in maybe 20 years. that's what happens when you get old. you have good friends who you don't see for 20 years, but we were immortalized together in 1985 when i after i wrote a very critical review of a disciple, theodore draper, who was then one of the most prominent historians of american and a very critical historian of american communism. and i was very critical of his disciples book. and that prompted him to attack us as new historians of american communism in pages of the new york rev

willer, he's a professor of international law and international constitutional studies at the university of cambridge. i asked him if us president trump has any legal authority to put take over the gaza strip. you know, he's speaking without any legal authority, whatever. it sounds like he is thinking in terms of his domestic practice as a property type, coon who can take over some dialect, wasteland, and turn it into a flower to florida. right. or a says florida like races, but here of course it's not an empty try to treat this as the territory which belongs to. ready palestine i the as a state, if you think it is a state already or is a self determination entity, which means that entities that this entire former state all of this, the entire series, which includes garza and nobody else can dispose of the stairs. israel has no right . ready of it, and mr. trump has absolutely no claim to the saying, as we said, we own it, we will, we will take it over. so that is uh uh, frontier. well, 1st of all, what would, what would the legal implications be then if the president were to try to act on this idea

and we, echion technologies, are a spin—out of the university of cambridge and have developed technologiesdifficult to power with electricity? these heavy—duty vehicles are, you know, by definition, bigger. they require bigger batteries, and they're used... they're used typically very intensively. so sometimes, you know, 22, 23, 2a hours a day, they are used in industrial and commercial settings where you cannot afford to have your vehicle sitting idle, because that costs money. environments, hot environments. all of these things are just very difficult for the battery. limitations at that... place on batteries. whenever we talk about evs, the first thing that a lot of people will talk about is that range anxiety, worrying that, you know, the battery will run out before they get where they need to get to. about long—distance lorry drivers, you know, the demands how do you solve that? so our approach is to say, "well, actually you don't need "a gigantic battery that will last for a very long time. "instead, go with a smaller battery that, 0k, will carry "less energy, but you'll be able to r

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and what to do after college and the university of cambridge to get a masters degree and studied winstonll and spend figure at queens college a lot of time at churchill college and studied the american relationshipslm so almost 20 yes later, he's writing about churchill and the white house and we spent a lot of time and washington d.c. the special conversation july 13 if i am correct. >> mr. churchill and the white house has fun anecdotes and what it's like to encounter churchill white house with your book captures the urgency of the moment and 41. they come across the atlantic to visit franklin roosevelt, after allun have after the united stas has been attacked. decides in 19e white. thank you, bob. winston had wanted the united states to get involved, moved. i suspect most of you are aware here of the speech that he gave less than a month into his prime ministership when he we shall never. we will fight on the beaches. we fight in the fields. and you that you know, the statement that setting is. encompasses 141 words. it ends with him saying that he hopes the new will immediately made

he has received fellowships from the national endowment for the humanities and the university of cambridge and of course, from the american antiquarian society, where he was a jay and deborah last fellow in graphic arts in 2018 2019. he has indeed been a familiar face here, participating in our 2022 summer seminar in american visual culture and serving on our short on our short term fellowship selection committee. that same year, the project he worked on as a researcher here is now a book which he's discussing tonight. lost literacies experiments in the 19th century. u.s. comic. if you thought american comic strips began sometime around the 1890s or the early 20th century, alex is book will take you back more than a century earlier. but i'll let him tell that story. alex, welcome back to as. thank you for that kind introduction. scott and thanks to as for for hosting me, this institution just means so much to me. people like lauren hughes, nan woolverton, laura wasser, which vince golden have all been just sort of incredible of supporters of my research over the years. i mean, it's nice to

many universities are already creating a positive policies. cambridge university in the u. k. it's now okay to use a i for getting an overview of new concepts to the coach or help with time management. so i'm scholars cool for exams that should be done in a way that no one can cheat using ai and to propose students for the working world . school should teach anywhere to they i, but only using limited versions. and then it's also up to us, be honest, which context have you use a i the, you know, you probably shouldn't have. would you share that with us pfeiffer now, and see you next time the as african americans return to dawn, they price out below goals. what does that integration look like? your presence is actually creating a problem for us and we came to the contract. so the, the amount of money. so do you guys think we have at least as soon as we can test conversations and honest offices lead to greater understanding this 77 percent in 30 minutes on the w. i see all the trees getting thing, please and i'll cleans of all 5 of 20. 50 is much of a much pretty know and everybody just respects the need to i want to live in it wa

when i was at the university of notre dame, i was thinking about what to do after college, and i decided ultimately to go to the university, cambridge in england to get a master's at the encouragement of small. and i studied winston churchill and i spent a year at queen's and a lot of time at churchill college. and i studied anglo-american relationship. so almost 20 years later, after i first met professor shmuel, now he is now writing about in the white house and we spent a lot of time today in washington, d.c., taping a really special conversation on churchill that will air on cbs saturday morning the following saturday. i believe that would be july 13th, if i'm correct. that will air on cbs saturday morning. so anyway, welcome, professor small, the washington, d.c. politics and prose. mr. churchill in the white house has so many funny about sir winston churchill, the former british prime minister. it has story after story, what it was like to encounter churchill in the white house. but what your book also is the urgency of the moment. in late 1941, when this prime decides to come across, the treacherous waters of the atlantic to

can sometimes be a long and difficult journey. joining us to discuss all of this, our amy data research are at cambridge university in volunteer with the invisible disability project. sophia countess, she's a disabled writes campaigner and official may and architect who's focusing on accessibility. thank you all so much for your time. thank you for being with us here on the screen today. amy, can i start by asking you, so how does your organization define invisible disability? you there one definition for what it feels like a multitude of conditions and and realities. thank you for that question. we define and invisible disability as a physical or mental difference from a procedure norm which may very culturally, politically socially, depending on your medical framework and disability that's not immediately apparent . and that's very important. so in some ways we don't love the word invisible because the more you spend time with someone, let's say somebody with epilepsy or diabetes or depression, that disability does become visible in various ways. whether that through their access needs, whether that's through th

following ionq's technology for about 25 years, ever since i was a physicist at cambridge university. i had the privilege of sponsor its ipo in 2020. we were the first. we were the best capitalized independent player in the market. i would argue that we remain the 800 pound gorilla of the category, right? whether you look at revenue, market cap, capitalization, you know, expertise in how far ahead we are in real world applications. >> let me ask you something. what do you do? what is a qubit? i understand on a on a on an intellectual level that quantum is going to break crypto and all this stuff. but like what today does quantum computing do? i'd love to know. >> well, so look, quantum computing i think about as the third leg of the stool in the computing ecosystem. right. so we you know, we had cpus and i can remember ten years ago when intel was busy bashing jensen and nvidia and saying gpus would never matter. right. and i find that sort of ironic that our market cap is about the same as. so now jensen is saying, right, qpus and quantum processing, but there will be a day when all three of these sit alon

of and he just edged my way into cambridge and. but i as the as the years went by, i switched to history. when i went to cambridge university and i realized what it was that so fascinated him. and my father had assumed i would be my father, be came from a working class background, but became editor in chief of the london times and sunday times. my father had assumed because i have a reasonable facility in writing, that i would be a journalist and and that adrian would be the professor. well adrian became a wonderful journalist, mainly the writer of the london independent. and for many years and poor old nigel had to become the professor history. but i certainly don't regret it. and he was a model for me. but but to your point, psychologically, yes. i mean, we we we were very close as twins, slept in the same room for i still now and it is said that are not i identical that we are fraternal i should say that when i was researching my first biography about the man i was in paris and the professor's wife there, who was i? i was looking at some documents there. she would give me lunch and she didn't know what to talk about. she

a 2017 cambridge university study found that collectively they constitute the largest shareholders in nearly 90% of the companies in the s&p hundred. again, that's 500 of the largest publicly u.s. companies and their ownerships even larger today as passive investing has overtaken active investing. this consolidation of corporate power and control is unlike anything the financial markets have seen since j.p. morgan and john de rockefeller controlled much of the financial sector in the early 1900s. it is the most powerful financial cartel in u.s. history that kind of share ownership carries with it tremendous power. the big three don't beneficially own those shares, the shares in their funds. the dividends. the profits. the losses from those shares go to their clients. but the big three vote, those shares at each company's annual shareholders meeting. that gives them power over who sits on boards of directors for virtually every major company in the united states and whether shareholders or shareholder resolutions for those companies pass or fail. so when this triad of power speaks to corporate ameri

of the point. >> the fringe is a magnet for comedians. as a 20-year-old studying english at cambridge university, john oliver felt the pull.stage thinking oh, boy, i want to do that again right now. >> almost sounds like it's addictive. >> oh, it's absolutely addictive. >> he came back year after year and headed to the royal mile, a picturesque cobblestone street that turns into a competitive marketplace for attention. >> sketch comedy from new york, baby! >> were you doing this? >> i was absolutely doing this. when you're first coming up here, the only way to do it is almost beg for people to come and see you. >> it's john oliver! >> he doesn't have to beg people anymore. he was welcomed with open arms at this basement club where he cut his comedic teeth. >> i want you to know that i've befouled this stage so many times before, there's no guarantee this will go well. >> he told us he learns from his mistakes, and starting out, he made a lot of them. >> it's the best place. >> but nowhere worse than at this tiny 55-seat venue called pleasance below. >> this room was in many ways my comedic waterloo. >> did you fill all the

of palestinian protests. they want to be able to continue to kill people. and so what what cambridge universityis, is like it should be against the law to protest in favour of, of gaza. >> well, i mean, i think the right to protest is, is there we've got the right to freedom of speech. i mean, i guess the question for me, nick, is why these students want to protest in favour of people who would probably throw them off the nearest building. >> yeah, obviously you want freedom and free speech and free expression. freedom to protest. but then you we've imported the world�*s problems so it gets a bit. mind you, students have always marched about problems. nothing to do with them, haven't they? across the world to virtue signal. and some of it is genuine. it is a horrible war. i�*m not totally undermining it. but you get these strange groups. the european legal support centre. what is that? turns out it's. you think it's. oh, that sounds like something to be europe. no, it's a group to be europe. no, it's a group to advocate for palestinian rights in britain and europe. but it�*s kind of the name bu

of math to the broader world. to the universe itself. we think about math the all around us. why, or how is it that whether talking about registration, voting registration, or about moving from cambridgessachusetts, back and forth to mississippi, that he had an attitude not just among the citizens in mississippi, but in the school system, with teachers and children that allowed them to trust him enough to introduce new approaches to the teaching of math. i remember you're being with him . it's very impressive. i want you to talk about how you are able to also buy into that system and the work to support and to do the teaching also. what was that about his makeup that allowed him to build trust? it would be very easy for a harvard trained black man, having been in college in the 1950's, so a loose or different in attitude, coming out of new york to massachusetts. to not be able to work effectively with people in the deep south. what made the difference, omo, with your father? guest: my dad was a listener. and talked about getting that from his dad. his dad was a janitor that grew up in the harlem river houses. he would talk about how his dad around with him and have conversations. how

victoria who currents of ukraine currents the future of ukraine programme of the university of and has pink teddy cambridge macron with president macron before the conference?— the conference? what's important _ the conference? what's important is _ the conference? what's important is what - the conference? what's important is what he i the conference? what'sl important is what he will the conference? what's - important is what he will tell prime minister oii the kingdom who has given 48 united kingdom who has given 48 hours speak with them as hours to speak with them as well because of moment, well because of the moment, macron and prime president macron and prime minister of uk starmer are ones ff f 5er fchat ff féhferfchat the ff f ones that the european the ones that the european will try to negotiate leaders will try to negotiate with donald trump and the understanding that european security and protection plan would be and when the outcomes mentioned is when the you mentioned is when the united states supported alternative resolution and of course for the first time in did not support her history, di

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