25th May 2022

The Norman Cohn Lecture 2022

Dark Money and the Subversion of Global Politics

How money, vested interests and digital manipulation

are eroding trust in democracy

Peter Geoghegan

Introduced and in conversation with Prof. Patrick Wright FBA

Peter Geoghegan is Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning news website openDemocracy.  He led its investigation into dark money in British politics that was nominated for a 2019 British Journalism Award and the Paul Foot Award. 

    In this talk, Geoghegan discusses what is known of the world of the oligarchs in the current context, and considers the implications of an ecosphere in which an organisation like Twitter can be individually owned and controlled.

This event was organised in conjunction with CenSAMM, the Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements.

27th March 2019

Norman Cohn Trust launch event at the British Academy, London.

The political philosopher John Gray and other discussants spoke on

"Politics, Religion and Psychopathology: how the work of Norman Cohn helps us understand the present".

7th July 2012

Norman Cohn FBA – A Colloquium

Discussions about Norman Cohn's life and work, presented by The Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Birkbeck College, University of London.