 Hi, my name is Matthew Eagleton-Piers. I'm a senior lecturer in international political economy. And together with a colleague here at SOAS, Faisy Ismail, we've designed a summer school course called Capitalism Crisis and the Neoliberal State. And our thinking on this is that you have many stories in the media and academia, such as whether there's going to be trade wars between countries, or the politics of the super-rich, or the rise of right-wing populism. And all these stories are somehow connected to a larger thing, and that is how the politics of global capitalism works, or quite often doesn't work. So our thinking about this course is that it is suitable for a variety of students at different levels, both young and social sciences, but also beyond, as well as practitioners who want to know why is it that we have many crises going on at the current time, and how is neoliberal capitalism imprinted on these crises. And I think that the takeaway contribution of this course, particularly when compared to others that are similar to it, would be three reasons. And the first is that it's genuinely interdisciplinary. There's a lot of people who talk about interdisciplinary work and research, but we want on this course for it to not just be grey economics, but political economy in all its colour, combined with development studies and geography, and that's what we think is more enriching. The second thing features that Fasian and I are genuinely passionate about the topics and the discussions that you'll engage with on this course. That is not just simply because they're intellectually significant, but because they shape all our lives and shape the degree of freedom that we have as we try to manoeuvre in this system. And then the third reason is something which I don't think is available in any other course of this sort, and that is that we do a tour of the city of London, the financial part of London. And I like to think that the city is like a secret society, so we try to lift the lid on this society a bit more, and ultimately the course is designed to be informative, but hopefully entertaining at the same time.