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Lecture

The Bridge Between Worlds: a brief history of connection

Event organised by ICE

Date
04 March 2025
Time
17:30 - 19:00 GMT
Location
Knowledge Exchange Hub
University of Strathclyde
James Weir Building, 5th Floor
75 Montrose St
Glasgow, G1 1XJ
United Kingdom

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Overview

Dr Gavin Francis, a GP and writer, has spent his life fascinated by the power of bridges to improve human connection. In a book published this year, The Bridge Between Worlds, he examines bridges both actual and metaphorical, on a journey through more than twenty countries, across four decades of travel. 

From Rome’s Ponte Sant’Angelo to Brooklyn, Victoria Falls to London, Singapore to Siberia, this thought-provoking talk will reflect on connections between nations and between individuals, emphasising the cultural and metaphorical aspects of bridges around the world. Francis explores what the building of bridges has meant to our civilisation, how crossings can enrich our lives, and the price we pay when we tear them down.

Refreshments from 17:30 with the presentation from 18:00

Speaker

Gavin Francis

Gavin Francis

general practitioner and writer

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Gavin Francis

Dr Gavin Francis is the author of ten non-fiction books, including Island Dreams, which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2020; Adventures in Human Being, which was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Saltire Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award; Empire Antarctica, which won Scottish Book of the Year in the SMIT Awards and was shortlisted for both the Ondaatje and Costa Prizes; and Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence, which was a Sunday Times bestseller.

He has written for the Guardian, The Times, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. His work has been translated into twenty languages, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 

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Lyndsey Pollock

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