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How can music be “Socialist Realist”?
This lecture will investigate the genesis of the Socialist Realism doctrine, which was imposed in 1934.
The 'proletarian music' trend of th…
4 years, 3 months ago
Holocaust History Under Siege
For the second Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture, Professor Jan Grabowski will discuss how scholars of the Holocaust find themselves co…
4 years, 3 months ago
Nature's Numbers: Natural Capital Accounting
How can nature be accounted for? How can we track how we are using nature and ensure we are not destroying the environment? Natural Capital is becomi…
4 years, 3 months ago
Einstein’s Blunder
When Albert Einstein tweaked his newly invented equations of General Relativity in 1917, he had one goal in mind: to find a solution that described a…
4 years, 3 months ago
Perversion
What is a perversion? This talk starts by exploring psychiatric and sexological debates about perverted sexual desires from the late nineteenth centu…
4 years, 3 months ago
Ancient Greek and Roman Libraries
Although Mesopotamian civilisations had assembled texts, the ancient Greeks brought the idea of the universal book collection to its near-legendary c…
4 years, 4 months ago
What is a Religion? : Rethinking Religion and Secularism
Most of us would consider Islam to be a religion, while we would generally view secularism as requiring the limiting of religion to the private spher…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Great Depression and ‘Embedded Liberalism’
The Great Depression posed a serious threat to democratic capitalism as economic nationalism flourished and Communism and Fascism offered alternative…
4 years, 4 months ago
Atomic Universe
Subsequent to the Hot Big Bang, as the Universe expanded and cooled, atoms formed and, later still, decoupled from radiation.
This lecture will cover…
4 years, 4 months ago
Portraits, Biographies and Public History
Immense curiosity exists about the lives of people who lived in the past. Portraits and biographies play a major role in bringing the dead to life, b…
4 years, 4 months ago