Is the growth in the emerging economies additional or are we growing more slowly? Speakers look at the limits to world economic growth from...
To Wear or Not to Wear: Changing social norms with regard to eyewear Studying the history of spectacles brings together the twin themes...
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...
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...
Sir Christopher Wren: Buildings, Place and Genius Who makes great buildings patrons, architects and builders? Are successful...