Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Bridging the Gap: writing commentaries on the Dead Sea scrolls in the 21st century

Dr Noam Mizrahi, Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Beginnings of Global Opera

Dr Benjamin Walton, Faculty of Music, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Gendering the City: Partition and post-colonial negotiations in South Asia

Dr Anjali B. Datta, Lecturer in Modern South Asian History, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: putridity to perfume

Dr William Tullett, Lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Historical fiction as anthropological technique: in the mind of an enslaved Melanesian

Dr Anthony Pickles, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

‘“Being an Islander”: art and identity of the large Mediterranean Islands’, or, can museums really contribute to research in social sciences?

Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou, Assistant Keeper and Cyprus Curator, Fitzwilliam Museum.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

A Journey into Rap Studies: from London’s hip-hop scenes to grimey Englishness

Dr Richard Bramwell, Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies, Loughborough University.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Content of Style - What makes Classical Greek Art 'Classical'?

Professor Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

“Stay in your shell, that will be of use to you:” The miniature shell collection in Petronella Brandt’s dollhouse

Professor Hanneke Grootenboer, University of Oxford.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 04 June 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

*CANCELLED* Economic Transformation and the Proliferation of Gambling in the Western Pacific

Dr Anthony Pickles, Bye-Fellow, Wolfson College, and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Habitual Sophia? Retaining one’s ability to learn from within aach lay-professional encounter

Professor Sylvie Delacroix, University of Birmingham and Alan Turing Institute.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Philosophers against Idleness

Professor Brian O’Connor, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, and University College Dublin.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

India: An idiosycratic democracy

Dr David Washbrook, Trinity College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Politics Gone Missing

Dr Graham Denyer-Willis (POLIS and Queens' College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Musicians, Tazkiras, and the Scattering of Mughal Delhi: where music went after Muhammad Shah

Dr Katherine Butler Schofield (King's College London).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The restitution of Nazi-looted art in post-fascist Austria, Italy and West Germany

Dr Bianca Gaudenzi, Wolfson College, Cambridge and German Historical Institute, Rome.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

An impossible method? Agreeing to disagree about comparison in anthropology

Dr Matei Candea (Department of Social Anthropology and King's College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

How Churchill Waged War

Mr Allen Packwood, OBE, FRHistS (Churchill College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Shakespeare, King James, and the Northern Yorkists

Dr Richard Stacey (University of Glasgow).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

When did Marx think that capitalism would fall?

Professor Gareth Stedman Jones (QMUL).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Anglosphere Tradition in British Politics

Professor Michael Kenny (Professor of Public Policy, POLIS, and inaugural director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge).

Dining Hall and Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Profitable Labour? Learning Disability and Labour Markets in Modern Britain

Dr Lucy Delap (Murray Edwards College & Faculty of History, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Re-membering Philologia: the past, present and future of an academic practice

Professor Sylvia Adamson (Emeritus Professor of Linguistics & Literary History, University of Sheffield).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Academic Citizenship and the Future University

Dr Alison Wood (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Role of Water in Venetian Architecture

Professor Deborah Howard (Professor Emerita of Architectural History, University of Cambridge, Fellow of St John’s College).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Synaesthesia & Art - Dance of Light

Rhea Quien (Artist and Art Educator, Cambridge) and Professor Jamie Ward (Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Sussex).

Dining Hall and Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 17:15-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

CANCELLED ‘At the still point of the turning world’: Time and Place in the Medieval Dream

Dr Lotte Reinbold (Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Who is my neighbour?': Stories of alms-seeking in early modern England

Dr Rebecca Tomlin (CRASSH/Faculty of English, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Death by Celibacy, or the Medieval Priest's Dilemma

Dr Katherine Harvey (Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Labour and the Left in the 1980s: A reassessment

Dr Jonathan Davis (Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Labour History Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Adano: Sicily, occupation literature and the American century

Professor Robert Gordon (MML & Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge) .

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Debate over Feature Film History

Professor Vivian Bickford Smith (University of Stellenbosch and University of Cape Town).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Liberalizing Contracts: Nineteenth Century promises through literature, law and history

Anat Rosenberg (Wolfson College, Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

What is the History of the Book?

Professor James Raven (Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for Bibliographical History, University of Essex; Fellow of Magdalene College and Director of the Cambridge Project for the Book Trust, Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Strong Bonds, Affective Labour: Sexually Transmitted Infections and the Work of History

Dr Richard A. McKay (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Alas, poor Yorick!': Laurence Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey" after 250 years'

Dr Mary Newbould (Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Quotation and the Law

Professor Lionel Bently (Faculty of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Donald Trump: The Making of a World View

Professor Brendan Simms (Fellow of Peterhouse and Professor in the History of International Relations at POLIS).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 30 January 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Redrawing the Boundaries of Citizenship in the First World War

Professor Daniela L. Caglioti (University of Naples ‘Federico II’).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Boy and The Brothers: The story of a young Londoner in the service of higher powers

Mr Shezad Dawood (Artist and Research Fellow in Experimental Media, University of Westminster).

Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'A Double Delight': Spiritual experiences of recovery from illness in Early Modern England, c.1580-1720

Dr Hannah Newton (Department of History, University of Reading).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Piranesi in the Valley of the Uncanny

Professor Caroline van Eck (Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'An idea whose time has come?' Tracing the history of Universal Basic Income in British politics, 1918-201

Dr Peter Sloman (Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and Churchill College, Cambridge) .

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Boxes with false bottoms? The challenge presented by abstract key words in English

Professor Alan Durant (School of Law, Middlesex University London).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'(Ump,)': Printing hiccups in the authors' absence or, A Tale of compulsion and imprisonment in Early Modern England

Dr Ian Burrows (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Italian, Male and Fascist. Rethinking Italian citizenship during the Fascist regime

Professor Giulia Albanese (Department of History, University of Padua, Italy).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Art and Architecture in Nazi Germany

Professor Sir Richard Evans, FBA (President of Wolfson College and Provost of Gresham College, London).

Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Gender, Obedience, and Religious Experience: The Virgin Mary in a world after Kant

Ruth Jackson (Research Fellow, CRASSH and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Gender, sexuality and illness in early modern exorcism

Boyd Brogan (Wolfson College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Captured and Alive: War satire, time and space

Jane Chapman (Lincoln University; College Research Associate, Wolfson College).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Privacy and Tabloid Journalism in the UK: A shifting landscape

Tanya Aplin (The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Pardoner's Passing and How it Matters: Gender, Relics and Speech Acts

Dr Alex da Costa (University Lecturer at the Faculty of English; Fellow of Newnham College).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 14 March 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Foreign Office, Margaret Thatcher and South Africa, 1979-90

Professor Patrick Salmon (Chief Historian, Foreign and Commonwealth Office).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Britain and the Continent: two thousand years of unpredictability

Professor Robert Tombs (St John's College).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 28 February 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The origins of India's democracy: making universal franchise in the world's largest democracy

Professor Ornit Shani (Haifa University).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 14 February 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Scholarly publication in the seventeenth century: Oxford, Cambridge and the 'learned press'

Dr Gordon Johnson (Honorary Fellow and Former President, Wolfson College).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Ideal Self: Flattery in Julius Caesar

Dr Maria Sequeira Mendes (Beaufort Visiting Fellow, St John's College).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 31 January 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Trade unions and the British tradition of pluralism

Dr Alastair Reid (Fellow, Girton College).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Invitations to Shared Viewership in Sandro Botticelli's Illustrations of Dante's Paradiso'

Dr Heather Webb (Selwyn College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Murder in Norwich, Narrative in Europe. The Birth of the 'Blood Libel' in Medieval England'

Professor Miri Rubin (QMUL).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'[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'

Dr Jackie Watson (Birkbeck/Oxford Spires).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Researching Children's Histories under the Third Reich: Some Challenges Explored'

Dr Helen Roche (Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'The Humanities and the Machine'

Professor Steven Connor (Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'David 'Jose' Rubio (1934–2000): A Personal Insight into Britain's Most Illustrious Musical Instrument Maker'

Dr James Westbrook (Wolfson College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Commemorating the First World War a 100 Years on in Popular and Public History'

Dr Deborah Thom (Robinson College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 11 October 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'The Power of Families in Preventing Radicalization -- a bottom up Security Strategy'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr. Edit Schlaffer, Founder of Women without Borders.

Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 07 June 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

An 'Age of the Crisis of Man'? 'Human Personality' in British Social Thought, 1910-1973

Dr Tim Rogan, St Catherine's College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 31 May 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Age of Assassination: Monarchy and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Europe

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Rachel G. Hoffman, Fellow in History of King’s College, Research Fellow on Conspiracy and Democracy, CRASSH.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Revisiting Edward Carson'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Professor Eugenio F. Biagini, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Cambridge and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College .

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 17 May 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'"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

Professor John Henderson, Fellow, Wolfson College; Professor of Italian Renaissance History, Birkbeck, University of London.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 03 May 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The propaganda of death: Italy's Fascist ossuaries of the First World War

Hannah Malone, Lumley Junior Research Fellow, Magdalene College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 26 April 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Advertising the Future in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Bianca Gaudenzi, CRA Wolfson College and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Konstanz.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Antislavery and Empire: Paradoxes of Liberation in the Western Indian Ocean'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Associate Professor Matthew S. Hopper, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Smuts Visiting Research Fellow in Commonwealth Studies, Wolfson College and Centre of African Studies.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

London in the Fog: The Artistic Response to Air Pollution

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Christine L Corton, Wolfson College Senior Member .

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Male memory, female subject: writing Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft '

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Janet Todd, Professor emerita, University of Aberdeen and Hon Fellow of Newnham College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Professor and the Ambassador - the Peel Commission on Palestine, 1937 and its aftermath

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Mr. George W. Liebmann, Senior Academic Visitor Wolfson College and Sir Henry Rumbold,Bt, grandson of Sir Horace Rumbold,Bt .......due.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Evolved and Evolving 'Mind' of the American South ?

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

Kevin Lewis, Professor of Religious Studies, University of South Carolina and visiting fellow Wolfson College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'The cultural self-fashioning of Frederick the Great'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Prof. Tim Blanning FBA, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 08 December 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'The Social and Cultural Translation of the Hebrew Bible in Early Modern England'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Professor Naomi Tadmor, Lancaster University.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 01 December 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Stirbitch: Performing the Vanished Polis

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr.Michael Hrebeniak, Wolfson College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

In the steps of the crusaders: heritage, poltiics, experience

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Astrid Swenson, Brunel University London.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Telling What Happened;. Shackleton's Endurance Expedition:Narratives and Narrators

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr. Meredith Hooper, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Polar Institute.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

John Aubrey, My Own Life, an experiment in biography

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Ruth Scurr ( Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Director of Studies in Human, Social).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Three Standing Figures - from stone, to studio, to the open air

this talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr. Jenny Powell, Senior Curator Kettle's Yard.

Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Moving pictures, moving stories: what archive films reveal

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Kevin Greenbank, Archivist and Administrator, CU Centre of South Asian Studies; Tutor, Wolfson College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

‘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

Dr. Alastair Bennett, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Hiroshima: under the bomb 70 years on

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Professor Alan Marcus, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College & Chair in Film and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen.

Gatsby Room, W block, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 09 June 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Metaphor

NOTE: this talk is not on the usual day/time of Humanities Society talks but on Thursday 4th June from 16.30.

Irving Massey, Professor (Emeritus) of English and Comparative Literature and Adjunct Professor (Emeritus) of French, University at Buffalo; former Visiting Fellow Wolfson College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Thursday 04 June 2015, 16:30-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Transgendered Copper Mining in the Levant

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr. Laura Zucconi, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Associate Professor ,Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 02 June 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

George Eliot and the Religion of Favourable Chance

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Professor Robert Koepp, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College & Illinois College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 26 May 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Maynard Keynes and his Whaling Adventure.

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Bjørn L. Basberg, Professor in Economic History, Norwegian School of Economics; Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Visiting Scholar, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 19 May 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

‘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

Dr Jennifer Davis, Fellow, Wolfson College; Member, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Social security in Britain - cost or benefit? An historical perspective on a 2015 general election issue.

Prof. Simon Szreter, History Faculty & St John's College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 05 May 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Churchill and the Islamic World

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Warren Dockter, Research Fellow Clare Hall.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Muslims under Nazi rule, 1941-1945

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr David Motadel, Research Fellow in History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

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

Dr Justin Colson, Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Mysticism and politics; some thoughts about St Teresa of Avila

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College.

Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Ibsen's women - on and off the stage

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Robert Amundsen, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Hinduism': the challenges of a polycentric approach to shaping our world

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Prof. Julius Lipner, Emeritus Professor of Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion, Fellow of Clare Hall.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Israel and Antisemitism

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Prof. David Feldman, Birkbeck London, Director of the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Opening of 'The Royal Academy at Wolfson'

This talk is open to the public

Anthony Green R.A..

Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 18:30-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The oldest illustrated book in Cambridge - a reconsideration of the St Augustine Gospels

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Prof. Nigel Morgan, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 20 January 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

C.R.Fay: The Differences between Making History and Writing It

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Hugh Gault, biographer and independent researcher.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 02 December 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Religion and Humour: The Islamic Feast of Sacrifice in Egyptian Cartoons

This talk is open to the public

Professor Gabriel M. Rosenbaum - Dept. of Arabic Language and Literature,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Director, The Israeli Academic Center in Cairo and Visiting Fellow Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Does Westminster Still Represent the Westminster Model ?

Professor Gerd Strohmeier Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Technische Universität Chemnitz.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 18 November 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Technology, Tools, and Toys of Early Modern Science

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

Dr Alexi Baker - CRASSH.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 11 November 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Communication in a globalised world: English is necessary but not sufficient

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

Dr Nick Saville - Director of the Research and Validation Group, Cambridge English Language Assessment.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 04 November 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Pickwick in the Trenches: Dickens and Dickensians in the Great War

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

Professor Jerry White - Birkbeck College, University of London.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 28 October 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'The nightingales won’t let you sleep in Platres'. Re-visiting the Greek Past

This talk is open to the public as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, and may be podcast

Prof. Robin Cormack, Prof. Emeritus in the History of Art, London University.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 21 October 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Erasmus Darwin: Poet of Progress

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

Dr Patricia Fara - Clare College & Department of History and Philosophy of Science .

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 14 October 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Wax, wood and narrative: the miraculous culture of Renaissance Italy

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Mary Laven, Jesus College Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Un-Righteous Neutrality: Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War, 1914-1917

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Prof. J.Lee Thompson, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Climate Change and Conspiracy Theory

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast.

Prof. David Runciman, POLIS & Trinity Hall.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Further Thoughts on the Undivided Past

This talk is public and may be podcast

Professor Sir David Cannadine, Princeton and School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Intellectual Societies: Intimacy and Knowledge in the 19th Century

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Prof. Bill Lubenow Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College & The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Fidgets, Scoundrels and Mummy's Boys: Performing Masculinity in the Victorian House of Commons

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Ben Griffin, Girton College, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 11 March 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Rogue Judges - Rebels or Reformers? The Case of Sir Henry McCardie

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Prof. Tony Lentin, Wolfson College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 04 March 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Neoliberalism, Socialism, and the Politics of Knowledge

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Suvi Salmenniemi, University of Turku and CRASSH.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 25 February 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The First Bohemians: the Artists of Eighteenth-Century Covent Garden

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Prof. Vic Gatrell, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Modern British History, University of Essex .

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 18 February 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'The True Function of Education'

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

Philip Allott, Emeritus Professor of International Public Law, Fellow of Trinity College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 11 February 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Reform, Revolution, Reaction. Land and the indigenous question in Allende's Chile.

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr. Dan Carter, Wolfson College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 04 February 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Looking Inside the Box, Thinking Outside the Box: Exhibiting Fiji in Cambridge

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Lucie Carreau, Cambridge Museum of Archeology and Anthropology .

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 28 January 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Spectators at the Print Shop Window: Caricature and the Rhetoric of the Gaze

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr David Taylor, Toronto University & Visiting Fellow CRASSH.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 21 January 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Planning for Survival in the Cold War

This talk is open to the public

Dr Donald Wilson, Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 03 December 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Mermaids, Cables and the Deep Sea: the telegraphic imagery in the 19th century

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Clare Pettitt, Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture, Kings College London.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 26 November 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Visions of Power

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast.

Prof. Chris Clark, Faculty of History and St. Catherine's College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 19 November 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Calories and Corsets: 2000 years of diets and dieting

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast.

Louise Foxcroft.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 12 November 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Feudalism in the Medieval West: ‘The Tyranny of a Construct’

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Magnus Ryan (Peterhouse College and History Faculty).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 05 November 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

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.

Dr Michael Collins, Lecturer in History, UCL.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 29 October 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Energy and the industrial revolution: opening Pandora's box

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Prof. Sir Tony Wrigley, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 22 October 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Arts and Humanities Today: Re-framing the ‘value’ debate

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast.

Dr Anna Upchurch, Leeds University.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 15 October 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Sappho, Lincoln, & the American Senate: Picturing Female Desire in the 19th Century

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast. This is the last talk of the term.

Prof. Simon Goldhill Kings College and Director of CRASSH.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Zimbabwe since Independence

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Prof. David Maxwell (Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Faculty of History and Emmanuel College).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Culture, Politics, identity: how we know who we think we are

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Professor Bruce Berman, Smuts Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Some English Scholars in Aleppo,1620-1760

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr.Simon Mills (Wolfson College and CRASSH).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Coin Finds and History in Cambridge

This talk is open to the public

Dr Martin Allen (Fitzwilliam Museum and Wolfson College).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Architecture & Design in Medieval Morocco: the building strategies of the Marinid sultans

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr. Amira Bennison (Magdalene College & faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Art, Empire, and Revolution: the Lives of Constance and Casimir Markievicz

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Lauren Arrington CRASSH and Liverpool University.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen and his "Diary of a Man in Despair": a conservative rebel in Hitler's Germany

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Prof. Sir Richard Evans ( President Wolfson College & Regius Professor of History, Faculty of History).

Seminar Room, Wolfson College (note change of venue).

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Islanded: the British Empire and Sri Lanka

This talk is open to the public

Sujit Sivasundaram (Gonville and Caius College).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Aftermath of War: Iraq Ten Years On

This talk is open to the public

Dr. Glen Rangwala (Trinity College and POLIS).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Best Seat in the House: viewing Greek history through its theatre

This talk is open to the public

Dr Michael C. Scott ( Darwin College, Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Brains, Science, and Human Nature

This talk is open to the public

Professor Simon Blackburn (Fellow of Trinity College and research professor UNC Chapel Hill).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 17:45-19:15

Historicising Islamic Extremism in the Punjab

Dr. Tahir Kamran (Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Centre of South Asian Studies).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 17:45-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Historicising Islamic Extremism in the Punjab

This talk is open to the public

Dr. Tahir Kamran (Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Centre of South Asian Studies).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Before Gallipoli there was Homer – the Classics and the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915

This talk is open to the public

Professor Sam Lieu .

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

What is Legal Philosophy?

This talk is open to the public

Professor Matthew Kramer (Faculty of Law, Churchill College).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Digital Affordances: some implications for the Humanities

This talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public

Professor John Naughton (Vice-President and Director of the Press Fellowship, Wolfson College).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Merchants of Culture: the Making of Bestsellers

This talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public

Professor John B Thompson (Department of Sociology, Fellow of Jesus College).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Markets and Merchants in early China

Professor Roel Sterckx, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Clare College .

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Not Only To See All, But Also To See From Anywhere': Space, Duration and the Omnivision of the Mobile Camera

Dr Jenna Ng (Visiting Fellow Wolfson College).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Austerity, free trade, and the deficit: the mid 19th century origins of a British obsession

Professor Boyd Hilton (Faculty of History, Trinity College).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Inventing Phoenicia? The Levantine Coast and Geographical Perception in the Ancient World

Dr Fred Hirt (Visiting Fellow Wolfson College).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Semantics of Peace in Early Modern England

Dr Phil Withington, Christ's College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

"Filled with Dissenters?" Cambridgeshire religion in 1851

Prof David Thompson, Emeritus Professor of Modern Church History.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 05 June 2012, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The 1690s: England's First Modern Economic Crisis?

Dr Brodie Waddell, Faculty of History.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Politics of Austerity

Prof Andrew Gamble, POLIS.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 22 May 2012, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Mesopotamia under Saddam: archaeology in Iraq 1969-1989

Professor Nicholas Postgate.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Good Companions and Fellow-boozers: Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England

Dr Mark Hailwood, Exeter and Institute for Historical Research.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Emulating God's playfulness: Johannes Kepler's serious jokes

Prof Nick Jardine.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 24 April 2012, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The History of Racism

Professor Francisco Bethencourt, King's College, London.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Revolution, Bond Markets, and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service

Professor Hans van de Ven, FAMES.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Foreign policy, fear, and civil society

Prof Christopher Hill, POLIS.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Russia's Cold War

Prof Jonathan Haslam, Corpus Christi College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 08 November 2011, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Mozart and three Emperors

Prof Derek Beales, Sidney Sussex College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

History and the Financial Crisis

Prof Martin Daunton, Trinity Hall.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 18 October 2011, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

‘My Desire is to be the Possessor of all the Best Books in this World of Struggle’: Respectability and Literary Materialism in Colonial Ibadan

Dr Ruth Walson, Clare College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 14 June 2011, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Wallace Stevens: Melodics of *Harmonium*

Professor Simon Jarvis, Faculty of English.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 07 June 2011, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

When ‘Comoners were made slaves by the magistrates’: Political Culture and Electioneering in 1620s Norwich

Dr Fiona Williamson.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 31 May 2011, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Lessons of the New Deal: did Obama learn the right ones?

Prof Tony Badger, Clare College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 10 May 2011, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

South Asian histories of citizenship

Dr Joya Chatterjii, Trinity College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 26 April 2011, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Who were the French revolutionaries?

Professor William Doyle, Bristol.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 15 February 2011, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Death in Florence: the impact of plague in early modern Italy

Prof John Henderson, Birkbeck College and Wolfson College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 08 February 2011, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

How to write the history of the Persian Empire

Prof Thomas Harrison, University of Liverpool.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

1919 and All That: The Treaty of Versailles and "Appeasement" at the Paris Peace Conference

Prof Tony Lentin, Wolfson College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 25 January 2011, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Fiction as History

Prof John Hatcher, Corpus Christi.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Reactions to Neo-Nazi violence in Russia

Professor Caroline Humphrey, King's College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 09 November 2010, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Why is the Enlightenment so difficult to define?

Prof. John Robertson, Clare College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 02 November 2010, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Comparisons for the anthropologist: when organ and tissue donations are matters of concern

Professor Marilyn Strathern, Girton College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 26 October 2010, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Views of War, 1914 and 1939

Dr Zara Steiner, Murray Edwards College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Louisa Catherine Adams: Travel, Narrative, and Gender

Professor Michael O'Brien, Jesus College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 01 June 2010, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Jesuits and Eunuchs in Late Ming China

Dr Mary Laven, Jesus College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 25 May 2010, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Spies and informants in Elizabethan London

Dr Stephen Alford, King's College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 18 May 2010, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Social Mobility in Modern Britain: Myths and Realities

Professor Peter Mandler, Gonville and Caius College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Cultural politics of electioneering

Dr Jon Lawrence, Emmanuel College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 04 May 2010, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Rethinking the Tropics: a Brazilian contribution to the debate

Professors Peter Burke and Maria Lucia Pallares-Burke.

Seminar Room, Wolfson College (note change of venue).

Tuesday 02 March 2010, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Uses of Memory in the Early Middle Ages

Prof Rosamond McKitterick, Sidney Sussex College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 23 February 2010, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland

Prof Alexandra Walsham, Exeter (newly appointed Professor of Modern European History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 26 January 2010, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The geopolitics of slavery in North America and Africa, 1850-1890

Professor Brendan Simms, Peterhouse.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 12 January 2010, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Ruskin and the Idea of a Museum

Dr Marcus Waithe.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 24 November 2009, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Triumph of Music

Professor Tim Blanning, Sidney Sussex, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Reflections on "Reflections on Cambridge"

Prof Alan Macfarlane, King's College, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 03 November 2009, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Jerusalem and the Cotswolds: the British discovery of the Holy City

Prof Simon Goldhill.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 20 October 2009, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Serbia and the Outbreak of War in 1914

Prof Chris Clark, St Catherine's College, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 06 October 2009, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Within the Secret State: A Disturbing Study of the Use and Misuse of Power

Chair: Dr Felicia Yap

Peter Evans.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 09 June 2009, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The naturalisation of reason in the seventeenth century: origins and consequences

Chair: Dr David Adams

Dr. Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 26 May 2009, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Crown and Nobility in Late Medieval England

Chair: Dr Max Lieberman

Prof Christine Carpenter.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 05 May 2009, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

TBC

Chair: Dr David Gange

Professor Simon Goldhill.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 28 April 2009, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

"How to Write the History of the Mediterranean"

Chair: Dr Max Lieberman

Professor David Abulafia.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Missing Links: the Church of England and the Rhineland Palatinate 1565-1642'

Chair: Dr David Adams

Professor Anthony Milton, University of Sheffield.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

"La Semaine Sanglante, 1871: a revision"

Chair: Dr Isabel DiVanna

Professor Robert Tombs.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 17 February 2009, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

"History, Truth and Memory: Reflections on the Irving/Lipstadt Libel Trial (Jan-Apr 2000)."

Chair: Dr Isabel DiVanna

Professor Richard Evans.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 03 February 2009, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Rousseau's JULIE: The Unread Best-Seller of the Eighteenth Century

Chair: Dr Carolina Armenteros

Professor Timothy O'Hagan.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Rousseau's Second Discourse: Between Stoicism and Epicureanism

Chair: Dr Carolina Armenteros

Dr Christopher Brooke.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Milton's angels

Chair: Dr David Adams

Professor Joad Raymond.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Elizabethan England: a monarchical republic

Chair: Dr Felicia Yap

Professor Patrick Collinson.

Gatsby Room, Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 14 October 2008, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

China and the world, 1750-2000

Chair: Dr Felicia Yap

Professor Odd Arne Westad.

Gatsby Room, Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 10 June 2008, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Ten Perfections in Theravada Buddhism

Chair: Professor Enrique Bocardo-Crespo

Mr William Pruitt.

Seminar Room, Wolfson College.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Tracing the cunning of unreason

Chair: Dr Carolina Armenteros

Professor John Dunn.

Gatsby Room, Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 03 June 2008, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Mandeville and the problem of political hypocrisy

Chair: Professor Enrique Bocardo-Crespo

Dr David Runciman.

Gatsby Room, Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 27 May 2008, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Dynastic roulette and state formation in early modern Europe

Chair: Dr David Adams

Professor John Morrill.

Gatsby Room, Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 22 April 2008, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Reading Roman history in the early middle ages

Chair: Dr Max Lieberman

Professor Rosamond McKitterick.

Quiet Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 11 March 2008, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Marx and empire

Chair: Dr Carolina Armenteros

Professor Gareth Stedman Jones.

Quiet Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 04 March 2008, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Do you have anything to fear from being on the DNA database if you are innocent? The forensic use of bioinformation

Chair: Dr Gagan Sood

Professor Sir Bob Hepple.

Quiet Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

A line from Dante

Chair: Dr Carolina Armenteros

Professor George Steiner.

Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 22 January 2008, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Oligarchs or custodians? Large-scale landholding in late Victorian and Edwardian England

Chair: Dr Carolina Armenteros

Professor Edward Bujak.

Old Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 29 May 2007, 17:45-19:15