To Wear or Not to Wear: Changing social norms with regard to eyewear Studying the history of spectacles brings together the twin themes...
Voices of the Land: Nga Reo o te Whenua In his solo presentation of traditional instruments (taonga puoro), Richard...
Culture and Resistance: Indigenous Responses to a Globalised World This lecture looks at the place occupied by indigenous cultures...
Laurence Sterne and Joseph Haydn An exploration of the connections between Laurence Sterne, the 18th...
The cultural politics of war, peace and sacrifice This lecture delves into how the culture of a society...
Finishing the Unfinished: Completing Mozart's Zaide In November 2003, at the newly restored Hackney Empire, the...
“Getting to know you”: how do animals recognise each other and us? For social animals one of the major skills that must...
Animal senses: how do they perceive the world and what important things can they sense that we cannot? The way the world is perceived by any species is...
Literary Londoners: John Keats This lecture continues the Literary Londoners series by delving into...