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Another week, another wide-ranging spectrum for the Events team. We began the week with academic Richard Sennett discussing the innate human quality of craftsmanship, how it has been lost through industrialisation and ways in which it can be rediscovered. 

We continued with Sudhir Venkatesh, a young American sociologist whose groundbreaking fieldwork was featured in Freakonomics. Sudhir held the audience in thrall as he recounted his unique experience of following and even befriending a crack dealing gang in Chicago, with compelling frankness. Read his fascinating tales in Gang Leader for a Day.

And speaking of frankness, we rounded off the week with some concerning insights into the current state of UK journalism. Nick Davies’ new book Flat Earth News has caused a firestorm of debate in the media blogs but Adrian Monck was on hand to quote from The Art of Ballyhoo (Harpers Magazine, 1927) to remind us that fears over the corrupting influence of big business interests, the forces of commercialisation and the pr machine are nothing new†plus ca change†

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