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Sexual Harassment at the Bar
2018 saw a seismic change in the willingness of women to speak out about sexual abuse they had suffered at work and the willingness of others to hear…
7 years, 5 months ago
The Theatre of Dionysus
Medea, Antigone, Oedipus and Lysistrata - these are just some of the characters from ancient Greek drama who still walk our contemporary stages and h…
7 years, 5 months ago
In the Beginning
Where did we come from? This question has always intrigued human thought.
Professor Silk will describe the modern scientist's view of the origin…
7 years, 5 months ago
Speech Processing: How to Wreck a Nice Peach
Alexa, Siri and Cortana are among a number of voice-enabled digital assistants that can not only speak to us but understand us. Sci-fi films had talk…
7 years, 5 months ago
Plastics from Potatoes, Rubber from Rice
With over 80% of organic carbon being present in the form of cellulose, lignin and starch, it is unsurprising many groups have attempted to use these…
7 years, 5 months ago
Infections and the Brain
The brain is well protected against most infections, but once they get into or around the brain they can cause fatal or serious long-term consequence…
7 years, 5 months ago
The Romantic Child
The Romantics invented the modern idea of childhood.
In the third of his lectures on the rhetoric of Romanticism, Jonathan Bate will explore how they…
7 years, 5 months ago
Glinka's A Life for the Tsar
The rousing finale of Mikhail Glinka's patriotic A Life for the Tsar (1836) guaranteed it a place as the traditional season opener in Russian op…
7 years, 5 months ago
Classical Music, Noisy Listening
Shh! You're in a classical concert - quiet! What has become, in the 20th and 21st centuries, a musical tradition of as-quiet-as-possible, cough-…
7 years, 5 months ago
Has the Internet Changed News for Better or Worse? 250 Years of Technology
Many claims have been made, both positive and negative, for the transformative nature of internet news in the age of social media. An historical pers…
7 years, 5 months ago