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Prokofiev The Soviet Artist
This lecture will follow the tortuous path of Prokofiev’s transformation into a Soviet artist. Prokofiev had pursued his career abroad and returned t…
4 years ago
The Oil Shock and Neoliberalism
The oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 led to international disruption and a crisis in the post-war order. Domestically, weaker productivity growth, the squ…
4 years ago
Love and Music
Tristan & Isolde, Romeo & Juliet, Pelléas & Mélisande are three pairs of lovers who have fired composers’ imaginations. Films like Love S…
4 years ago
The Maths of Proportion in Art, Design and Nature
From the Ancient Greeks onwards, proportion and mathematics has been central to our ideas of form and beauty.
This lecture looks at the famous golden…
4 years ago
The Brixton Riots: Policing the Community in the last 40 years
Since the 1981 Brixton riots, many things have changed in British policing. However, Black people are still nine times more likely to be stopped and …
4 years ago
Infections which use the Respiratory Route
COVID-19, pandemic influenza and tuberculosis are examples of the remarkable ability of infections to use the respiratory route of transmission. Infe…
4 years, 1 month ago
Early Protestant Missions to the Americas
Protestant settlers in the Americas believed it was their duty to convert indigenous peoples to the true Gospel. Yet the task proved unexpectedly dif…
4 years, 1 month ago
Error Control Coding
When was the last time you opened a file and noticed a computer glitch? “Never” is the usual answer. Yet the underlying hardware makes continual erro…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Broken Cosmic Distance Ladder
Measuring distances to astronomical objects outside our Galaxy is a surprisingly hard challenge: it wasn't until 1923 that Edwin Hubble obtained…
4 years, 1 month ago
Brexit: What Have We Learned So Far?
What has Brexit come to mean?
This lecture will explain how the Brexit deal the UK and the EU ended up with came to be. It will then investigate the …
4 years, 1 month ago