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A collection of lectures organised by the Humanities Society of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Our aim is to act as a forum for stimulating ideas across the boundaries between the Humanities and other fields of study. We offer a programme with international and interdisciplinary interest, featuring talks on a range of cultural contexts, themes, and from a range of historical periods and perspectives, with a balance between early career researchers, up and coming scholars, and world class professors. Talks take place almost every Tuesday during full term and are open to the public and to all university members. We like to involve audiences in a discursive Q&A session, and our ambiance is inclusive and welcoming, offering refreshments before and after events. If you have a question about this list, please contact: Dr Mary Newbould; Dr Bianca Gaudenzi; ; Dr Rachel E. Holmes; Mary-Ann Middelkoop; jsd27; Dr Anthony Pickles; Dr Anjali B. Datta. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 0 upcoming talks and 215 talks in the archive. Bridging the Gap: writing commentaries on the Dead Sea scrolls in the 21st century
The Beginnings of Global Opera
Gendering the City: Partition and post-colonial negotiations in South Asia
Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: putridity to perfume
Historical fiction as anthropological technique: in the mind of an enslaved Melanesian
‘“Being an Islander”: art and identity of the large Mediterranean Islands’, or, can museums really contribute to research in social sciences?
A Journey into Rap Studies: from London’s hip-hop scenes to grimey Englishness
The Content of Style - What makes Classical Greek Art 'Classical'?
“Stay in your shell, that will be of use to you:” The miniature shell collection in Petronella Brandt’s dollhouse
*CANCELLED* Economic Transformation and the Proliferation of Gambling in the Western Pacific
Habitual Sophia? Retaining one’s ability to learn from within aach lay-professional encounter
The Philosophers against Idleness
India: An idiosycratic democracy
Politics Gone Missing
Musicians, Tazkiras, and the Scattering of Mughal Delhi: where music went after Muhammad Shah
The restitution of Nazi-looted art in post-fascist Austria, Italy and West Germany
An impossible method? Agreeing to disagree about comparison in anthropology
How Churchill Waged War
Shakespeare, King James, and the Northern Yorkists
When did Marx think that capitalism would fall?
The Anglosphere Tradition in British Politics
Profitable Labour? Learning Disability and Labour Markets in Modern Britain
Re-membering Philologia: the past, present and future of an academic practice
Academic Citizenship and the Future University
The Role of Water in Venetian Architecture
Synaesthesia & Art - Dance of Light
CANCELLED ‘At the still point of the turning world’: Time and Place in the Medieval Dream
'Who is my neighbour?': Stories of alms-seeking in early modern England
Death by Celibacy, or the Medieval Priest's Dilemma
Labour and the Left in the 1980s: A reassessment
Adano: Sicily, occupation literature and the American century
The Debate over Feature Film History
Liberalizing Contracts: Nineteenth Century promises through literature, law and history
What is the History of the Book?
Strong Bonds, Affective Labour: Sexually Transmitted Infections and the Work of History
'Alas, poor Yorick!': Laurence Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey" after 250 years'
Quotation and the Law
Donald Trump: The Making of a World View
Redrawing the Boundaries of Citizenship in the First World War
The Boy and The Brothers: The story of a young Londoner in the service of higher powers
'A Double Delight': Spiritual experiences of recovery from illness in Early Modern England, c.1580-1720
Piranesi in the Valley of the Uncanny
'An idea whose time has come?' Tracing the history of Universal Basic Income in British politics, 1918-201
Boxes with false bottoms? The challenge presented by abstract key words in English
'(Ump,)': Printing hiccups in the authors' absence or, A Tale of compulsion and imprisonment in Early Modern England
Italian, Male and Fascist. Rethinking Italian citizenship during the Fascist regime
Art and Architecture in Nazi Germany
Gender, Obedience, and Religious Experience: The Virgin Mary in a world after Kant
Gender, sexuality and illness in early modern exorcism
Captured and Alive: War satire, time and space
Privacy and Tabloid Journalism in the UK: A shifting landscape
The Pardoner's Passing and How it Matters: Gender, Relics and Speech Acts
The Foreign Office, Margaret Thatcher and South Africa, 1979-90
Britain and the Continent: two thousand years of unpredictability
The origins of India's democracy: making universal franchise in the world's largest democracy
Scholarly publication in the seventeenth century: Oxford, Cambridge and the 'learned press'
The Ideal Self: Flattery in Julius Caesar
Trade unions and the British tradition of pluralism
'Invitations to Shared Viewership in Sandro Botticelli's Illustrations of Dante's Paradiso'
'Murder in Norwich, Narrative in Europe. The Birth of the 'Blood Libel' in Medieval England'
'[T]hough Ramme stinks with cookes and ale,/ Yet say thers many a worthy lawyers chamber,/ Buts vpon Rame-Alley': An Innsman Goes to the Playhouse'
'Researching Children's Histories under the Third Reich: Some Challenges Explored'
'The Humanities and the Machine'
'David 'Jose' Rubio (1934–2000): A Personal Insight into Britain's Most Illustrious Musical Instrument Maker'
'Commemorating the First World War a 100 Years on in Popular and Public History'
'The Power of Families in Preventing Radicalization -- a bottom up Security Strategy'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
An 'Age of the Crisis of Man'? 'Human Personality' in British Social Thought, 1910-1973
The Age of Assassination: Monarchy and Nation in Nineteenth-Century EuropeThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
'Revisiting Edward Carson'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
'"A Plague on Both Your Houses": coping with epidemic disease in early modern Tuscany'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
The propaganda of death: Italy's Fascist ossuaries of the First World War
Advertising the Future in Fascist Italy and Nazi GermanyThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
'Antislavery and Empire: Paradoxes of Liberation in the Western Indian Ocean'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
London in the Fog: The Artistic Response to Air PollutionThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
'Male memory, female subject: writing Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft 'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
The Professor and the Ambassador - the Peel Commission on Palestine, 1937 and its aftermathThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
The Evolved and Evolving 'Mind' of the American South ?This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast
'The cultural self-fashioning of Frederick the Great'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
'The Social and Cultural Translation of the Hebrew Bible in Early Modern England'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Stirbitch: Performing the Vanished PolisThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
In the steps of the crusaders: heritage, poltiics, experienceThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
'Telling What Happened;. Shackleton's Endurance Expedition:Narratives and NarratorsThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
John Aubrey, My Own Life, an experiment in biographyThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Three Standing Figures - from stone, to studio, to the open airthis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Moving pictures, moving stories: what archive films revealThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
‘Th’emprenting of hir consolacioun’: persuasive speech and resistant listeners in ‘The Franklin’s Tale’This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Hiroshima: under the bomb 70 years onThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
MetaphorNOTE: this talk is not on the usual day/time of Humanities Society talks but on Thursday 4th June from 16.30.
Transgendered Copper Mining in the LevantThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
George Eliot and the Religion of Favourable ChanceThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Maynard Keynes and his Whaling Adventure.This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
‘Trade (mark) wars, 1860-1920: sweatshops, the retail trade and the meaning of trade marks.’This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Social security in Britain - cost or benefit? An historical perspective on a 2015 general election issue.
Churchill and the Islamic WorldThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Muslims under Nazi rule, 1941-1945This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
London Bridge in the late fifteenth century: ‘comparable in itself to a little city’?This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Mysticism and politics; some thoughts about St Teresa of AvilaThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Ibsen's women - on and off the stageThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
'Hinduism': the challenges of a polycentric approach to shaping our worldThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Israel and AntisemitismThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Opening of 'The Royal Academy at Wolfson'This talk is open to the public
The oldest illustrated book in Cambridge - a reconsideration of the St Augustine GospelsThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
C.R.Fay: The Differences between Making History and Writing ItThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Religion and Humour: The Islamic Feast of Sacrifice in Egyptian CartoonsThis talk is open to the public
Does Westminster Still Represent the Westminster Model ?
Technology, Tools, and Toys of Early Modern ScienceThis talk is open to the public, and may be podcast
Communication in a globalised world: English is necessary but not sufficientThis talk is open to the public, and may be podcast
Pickwick in the Trenches: Dickens and Dickensians in the Great WarThis talk is open to the public, and may be podcast
'The nightingales won’t let you sleep in Platres'. Re-visiting the Greek PastThis talk is open to the public as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, and may be podcast
Erasmus Darwin: Poet of ProgressThis talk is open to the public, and may be podcast
Wax, wood and narrative: the miraculous culture of Renaissance ItalyThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Un-Righteous Neutrality: Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War, 1914-1917This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Climate Change and Conspiracy TheoryThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast.
Further Thoughts on the Undivided PastThis talk is public and may be podcast
Intellectual Societies: Intimacy and Knowledge in the 19th CenturyThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Fidgets, Scoundrels and Mummy's Boys: Performing Masculinity in the Victorian House of CommonsThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Rogue Judges - Rebels or Reformers? The Case of Sir Henry McCardieThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Neoliberalism, Socialism, and the Politics of KnowledgeThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
The First Bohemians: the Artists of Eighteenth-Century Covent GardenThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
'The True Function of Education'This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast
Reform, Revolution, Reaction. Land and the indigenous question in Allende's Chile.This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Looking Inside the Box, Thinking Outside the Box: Exhibiting Fiji in CambridgeThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Spectators at the Print Shop Window: Caricature and the Rhetoric of the GazeThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Planning for Survival in the Cold WarThis talk is open to the public
Mermaids, Cables and the Deep Sea: the telegraphic imagery in the 19th centuryThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Visions of PowerThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast.
Calories and Corsets: 2000 years of diets and dietingThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast.
Feudalism in the Medieval West: ‘The Tyranny of a Construct’This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Ideological Ends of British Imperialism: Decolonisation and the ‘Federal Moment’This talk is open to the public as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. It may be podcast.
Energy and the industrial revolution: opening Pandora's boxThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
The Arts and Humanities Today: Re-framing the ‘value’ debateThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast.
Sappho, Lincoln, & the American Senate: Picturing Female Desire in the 19th CenturyThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast. This is the last talk of the term.
Zimbabwe since IndependenceThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Culture, Politics, identity: how we know who we think we areThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Some English Scholars in Aleppo,1620-1760This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Coin Finds and History in CambridgeThis talk is open to the public
Architecture & Design in Medieval Morocco: the building strategies of the Marinid sultansThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Art, Empire, and Revolution: the Lives of Constance and Casimir MarkieviczThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen and his "Diary of a Man in Despair": a conservative rebel in Hitler's GermanyThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Islanded: the British Empire and Sri LankaThis talk is open to the public
The Aftermath of War: Iraq Ten Years OnThis talk is open to the public
Best Seat in the House: viewing Greek history through its theatreThis talk is open to the public
Brains, Science, and Human NatureThis talk is open to the public
Historicising Islamic Extremism in the PunjabThis talk is open to the public
Before Gallipoli there was Homer – the Classics and the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915This talk is open to the public
What is Legal Philosophy?This talk is open to the public
Digital Affordances: some implications for the HumanitiesThis talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public
Merchants of Culture: the Making of BestsellersThis talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public
Markets and Merchants in early China
'Not Only To See All, But Also To See From Anywhere': Space, Duration and the Omnivision of the Mobile Camera
Austerity, free trade, and the deficit: the mid 19th century origins of a British obsession
Inventing Phoenicia? The Levantine Coast and Geographical Perception in the Ancient World
The Semantics of Peace in Early Modern England
"Filled with Dissenters?" Cambridgeshire religion in 1851
The 1690s: England's First Modern Economic Crisis?
Mesopotamia under Saddam: archaeology in Iraq 1969-1989
Good Companions and Fellow-boozers: Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England
Emulating God's playfulness: Johannes Kepler's serious jokes
The History of Racism
Revolution, Bond Markets, and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service
Foreign policy, fear, and civil society
Russia's Cold War
Mozart and three Emperors
History and the Financial Crisis
‘My Desire is to be the Possessor of all the Best Books in this World of Struggle’: Respectability and Literary Materialism in Colonial Ibadan
Wallace Stevens: Melodics of *Harmonium*
When ‘Comoners were made slaves by the magistrates’: Political Culture and Electioneering in 1620s Norwich
The Lessons of the New Deal: did Obama learn the right ones?
South Asian histories of citizenship
Who were the French revolutionaries?
Death in Florence: the impact of plague in early modern Italy
How to write the history of the Persian Empire
1919 and All That: The Treaty of Versailles and "Appeasement" at the Paris Peace Conference
Reactions to Neo-Nazi violence in Russia
Why is the Enlightenment so difficult to define?
Comparisons for the anthropologist: when organ and tissue donations are matters of concern
Views of War, 1914 and 1939
Louisa Catherine Adams: Travel, Narrative, and Gender
Jesuits and Eunuchs in Late Ming China
Spies and informants in Elizabethan London
Social Mobility in Modern Britain: Myths and Realities
Cultural politics of electioneering
Rethinking the Tropics: a Brazilian contribution to the debate
The Uses of Memory in the Early Middle Ages
The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
The geopolitics of slavery in North America and Africa, 1850-1890
The Triumph of Music
Reflections on "Reflections on Cambridge"
Jerusalem and the Cotswolds: the British discovery of the Holy City
Serbia and the Outbreak of War in 1914
Within the Secret State: A Disturbing Study of the Use and Misuse of PowerChair: Dr Felicia Yap
The naturalisation of reason in the seventeenth century: origins and consequencesChair: Dr David Adams
Crown and Nobility in Late Medieval EnglandChair: Dr Max Lieberman
"How to Write the History of the Mediterranean"Chair: Dr Max Lieberman
'Missing Links: the Church of England and the Rhineland Palatinate 1565-1642'Chair: Dr David Adams
"La Semaine Sanglante, 1871: a revision"Chair: Dr Isabel DiVanna
"History, Truth and Memory: Reflections on the Irving/Lipstadt Libel Trial (Jan-Apr 2000)."Chair: Dr Isabel DiVanna
Rousseau's JULIE: The Unread Best-Seller of the Eighteenth CenturyChair: Dr Carolina Armenteros
Rousseau's Second Discourse: Between Stoicism and EpicureanismChair: Dr Carolina Armenteros
Elizabethan England: a monarchical republicChair: Dr Felicia Yap
China and the world, 1750-2000Chair: Dr Felicia Yap
The Ten Perfections in Theravada BuddhismChair: Professor Enrique Bocardo-Crespo
Tracing the cunning of unreasonChair: Dr Carolina Armenteros
Mandeville and the problem of political hypocrisyChair: Professor Enrique Bocardo-Crespo
Dynastic roulette and state formation in early modern EuropeChair: Dr David Adams
Reading Roman history in the early middle agesChair: Dr Max Lieberman
Marx and empireChair: Dr Carolina Armenteros
Do you have anything to fear from being on the DNA database if you are innocent? The forensic use of bioinformationChair: Dr Gagan Sood
A line from DanteChair: Dr Carolina Armenteros
Oligarchs or custodians? Large-scale landholding in late Victorian and Edwardian EnglandChair: Dr Carolina Armenteros
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