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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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 6 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, 6 months ago
Europe's Search for Sustainable Security
After the ravages of the First World War there was a widespread desire for 'sustainable security’. Contemporaries were preoccupied with hungry c…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Manuscripts and Intellectual Legacy of Timbuktu
The Malian city of Timbuktu is one of the world's oldest seats of learning and has an intellectual legacy of hundreds of thousands of manuscript…
4 years, 6 months ago
Plot
Elaborate plotting is the novelistic skill least often valued by critics, even if relished by readers.
This lecture will look at novelists who raise …
4 years, 6 months ago
How the Financial System Works
This lecture will explore our financial system. Why do banks exist, and what do they do with the money that savers lend to them?
We’ll explore what r…
4 years, 6 months ago