Dr TERRI APTER is a former Senior Tutor of Newnham, psychologist and writer. Her new book is The Teen Interpreter: A Guide to the Challenges and Joys of Raising Adolescents (2022). Her books on family dynamics, identity and relationships have received international acclaim, including Passing Judgment: Praise and Blame in Everyday Life (2018), Difficult Mothers: Understanding and Overcoming Their Power (2016) and What Do You Want from Me?: Learning to Get Along with In-Laws (2009). She has presented her research on children’s and teenagers’ motivation to the Sutton Trust and HM Treasury, and at the Oxford Literary Festival, the Edinburgh Literary Festival and the ICA.

PROFESSOR JENNY MANDER is a Fellow of Newnham, member of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, and Co-Director of the University Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement. Her research focuses on European commercial and colonial expansion in the long eighteenth century and the impact of new technologies of communication on social relationships and notions of place. Recent publications include a critical edition of Raynal’s Histoire philosophique et politique des deux Indes (2021) and Transnational Perspectives on the Conquest and Colonization of Latin America (2019).