Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 This lecture explores new ways of understanding the crisis that...
"A Stout Heart in the Great Cesspool": Arthur Conan Doyle and London From the impressions of his first youthful visit, to his...
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...
Queen Victoria: Images of Power and Empire This lecture will examine the images of power and empire...
Science Fiction as a Literary Genre: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture This part of the symposium included the following talks: Introduction...
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding Drawing on examples from the Israel-Palestine conflict, this lecture explores...
Lives in Limbo: Jewish Refugees in Portugal, 1940–1945 The Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture This lecture highlights the...
Adultery in the Novel, from Flaubert to Sally Rooney Adultery became the subject of some of the greatest European...