Talks
Europe’s next chapter: how to unlock growth, steer innovation, and govern AI in a contested world
Europe is at a crossroads. Slower growth, geopolitical pressure, and rapid technological change are forcing hard choices. This panel event brings together Gabriel Attal, Gillian Tett, Lord Booth-Smith, and Menna Rawlings to debate Europe’s next chapter: how to boost competitiveness, govern AI credibly, and deliver reform at speed.
Karen McLean, Ar’n’t I a Woman! Woven Bodies 1, 2021. Courtesy of Karen McLean.
Meet the Artist: Karen McLean
Thu 24 April 2025
Fitzwilliam Museum
British contemporary artist Karen McLean talks about her powerful work Ar’n’t I a Woman! (2021), on display in our Rise Up exhibition. Rooted in historical research, McLean’s installations, sound and moving image works incorporate evocative and symbolic materials such as sugar, blue soap and hessian bags and interrogate the complex legacies of colonialism.