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Shakespeare, Race and Performance
How do Shakespeare's familiar plays Othello and Romeo and Juliet reflect the early modern preoccupation with race and emerging concepts of colou…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Maths of Perspective in Art
The Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi, designer of the dome of Florence cathedral, is also known for developing the rules of linear perspective.…
4 years, 4 months ago
What does it mean for Israel to be a Jewish state?
What do we mean when we refer to the State of Israel as 'the Jewish State'? What does it mean for the politics of the state to be identifie…
4 years, 4 months ago
Insect Vector-Borne Diseases
Many of the major diseases of humans are transmitted by insect vectors. Malaria, sleeping sickness, typhus, dengue, Zika and plague are examples wher…
4 years, 4 months ago
GPS
In 1977 or thereabouts a collection of scientists huddled around a secret radio receiver in the US desert. This was the start of GPS, Glonass, Gallil…
4 years, 4 months ago
Pleasure
Sex manuals can incite revolution. In the early 1970s a feminist collective released Our Bodies, Ourselves (1970) while 'free love' propone…
4 years, 5 months ago
Blacks Britannica: Diversity in Medieval and Early Modern England
Africans have been present in England for more than two thousand years, but we rarely see them or hear about them. And often their existence is dismi…
4 years, 5 months ago
Redesigning the World in Which We Live to Put the Planet First
How can we help human society flourish without destroying nature?
The Wellbeing Economy and Natural Capital are linked strategies that can help achie…
4 years, 5 months ago
The Immigration Act 1971: Celebrated or Flawed?
Commonwealth citizens once enjoyed the right to live, work and settle in the UK without any restrictions. But a racist backlash against Black and Asi…
4 years, 5 months ago
Early Universe
This lecture will examine the evidence for and the significance of events that unfolded in the early Universe. “Early” here refers to within the firs…
4 years, 5 months ago