Experts on Ukraine & US politics to visit University for new public speaker series

The invasion of Ukraine and its impact upon international relations, and the importance of race and religion in the forthcoming US Presidential Election and for American politics more broadly, will be the focus of two public talks taking place this month at the University of Exeter. Award-winning journalist Luke Harding, and Reverend Professor Keith Magee – a former advisor to both the Biden-Harris administration and Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London – will visit the Streatham campus on consecutive weeks to share their personal experiences and insight into these critical global events. Harding, who has been reporting from Ukraine since 2021, and was the first journalist to be expelled from Moscow since the Cold War, will talk about his latest book Invasion in the first event on Wednesday 9 October. The following Wednesday, Professor Magee will speak about how race and religion are being weaponised for electoral gain, and how a conservative Supreme Court is using religion as a basis to legislate against minority rights. “We are delighted to be able to bring to Exeter experts at the cutting-edge of some of the most consequential political challenges of our time,” said Professor James Clark, historian and Director of the Societies and...