Were There Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe? This lecture considers a set of superhuman female figures found...
Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 This lecture explores new ways of understanding the crisis that...
Markets and Marxism: USA, USSR and China Different models of economic modernity competed during the Cold War...
Iran’s Constitutional Revolution of 1906 Iran’s first revolution in 1906 provided the country with a...
"A Stout Heart in the Great Cesspool": Arthur Conan Doyle and London From the impressions of his first youthful visit, to his...
When Net Zero? The Climate Braking Distance The accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere determines what...
Discovering Australia: The legend and the reality of the navigator-explorer Matthew Flinders Matthew Flinders is remembered as one of Britain’s greatest navigator-explorers...
Science Fiction as a Literary Genre: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture This part of the symposium included the following talks: Introduction...