Join Matthew Gillett and Marina Lostal in conversation with Jules Pretty on international law, courts and institutions. We talk about peace, security and the environment; hate crimes and losses in cultural heritage; the founding of a Biocultural Indigenous University in the Andean Amazon of Colombia; how the crime of ecocide is being prosecuted, and how a river has been declared a victim.

Matthew Gillett and Marina Lostal are in the Essex Law School at the University of Essex.

Amanda Cole and Ella Jeffries from the Department of Language and Linguistics talk to Jules Pretty about 
sociolinguistics: the loss and gain of language and dialect, language variation; influence of Cockney on Essex; accent bias – class and gender; right or wrong or plain different.

Join Ben Goldsmith and Níels Einarsson in conversation with Jules Pretty on how rewilding changes whole landscapes as well as our imagination, and how the 500 Orca marine incidents off Iberia are challenging how we think of wild marine mammals. What is rewilding, how can it benefit landscapes and cities, what are the best ways to think about human-nature relationships?

Ben Goldsmith is author of “God is an Octopus”, rewilding farmer and advocate, and Chief Executive of Menhaden Plc. Níels Einarsson is Director of the Stefansson Arctic Institute at the University of Akureyri, northern Iceland. It is the 25th anniversary year of the Stefansson Arctic Institute.

Join Lloyd Peck and Bill McKibben in conversation with Jules Pretty on the climate crisis. Lloyd has travelled to the Antarctic 20 times in 30 years, and describes first hand from under water the changes in these cold and slow environments. Bill is the foremost green writer, journalist and activists in the USA, and is the founder of both 350.org and Third Act.

Lloyd Peck is with the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, and has researched changes in the Antarctic for 30 years. Bill McKibben is author of the book Falter, and founder of Third Act, a US organisation bringing together the over-60s in direct action on the climate crisis and democracy.

Join Erik Jacobi and Jordon Lazell in conversation with Jules Pretty on circular economies and neuromarketing. What are circular economies, and how can they help businesses become more successful as well as creating social benefits? How can new neuromarketing approaches pioneered at the University of Essex help brands and our understanding of consumer behaviours.

 Erik Jacobi and Jordon Lazell are at the Essex Business School. Erik is one of the University’s Public Voice Scholars, and directs the Neuromarketing Lab.

Join Andrew Simms and Nicky Saunter of the Rapid Transition Alliance in conversation with Jules Pretty on Hope. How can we address climate, ecological and social inequality crises with new forms of language and action; how can hope be deployed to improve lives. The joint Hope Tales project is producing new street literature in the form of chapbooks arising from live events across the UK.

Andrew Simms and Nicky Saunter are at the Rapid Transition Alliance. The Hope Tales chapbooks can be found at https://rapidtransition.org/resources/hope-tales/

Join Ruth Weir and Jackie Turton in conversation with Jules Pretty on domestic abuse and violence in the home. What works and why? What has changed in recent years? What are the prospects for the future?

Ruth Weir is at City University’s Violence and Society Centre and Jackie Turton is in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. They are co-authors with two serving police officers, Kate Barrow-Grint and Jacqueline Sebine, of the new book, Policing Domestic Violence.

Join Paul Hibberd and Abigail Webb in conversation with Jules Pretty on processing visual information – how we humans see the world, how technology is opening up new options for immersive theatre, and the exciting roles for virtual and augmented reality.

Paul Hibberd is in the Department of Psychology at the University of Essex and Abigail Webb is at the University of Suffolk.

Join Friederike Mengel and Carlos Carillo Tudela in conversation with Jules Pretty on the modern nature of work, how labour economics helps us understand the rapid pace of change, the impacts on women, the choices regarding home working, and what this all means for national productivity and whether countries become poorer or richer.

Friederike Mengel and Carlos Carillo Tudela are economists in the Department of Economics at the University of Essex.

Join Leo Schalkwyk and Meena Kumari in conversation with Jules Pretty on human genetics and epigenetics, how culture and society influences what goes on inside us, and all the latest on how this new understanding can improve human health.

Leo Schalkwyk is Head of the School of Life Sciences and Meena Kumari is Deputy Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, both at the University of Essex