Past lectures

Wednesday 22 February 2012

From the 1960s to our own time artists who have wished to express Christian themes have explored a number of very different...

Tuesday 21 February 2012

How do sexual fantasies vary and how do they arise? How do they relate to unusual sexual practices such as fetishism, transvestism and...

Tuesday 21 February 2012

Throwing things, and jumping up and down or along, lies at the root of many Olympic events. In the gymnasium, the velodrome, and the...

Wednesday 15 February 2012

Education through sport is seen as the cornerstone of Olympic ideology. How has this key aim been implemented by London 2012?

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Tuesday 14 February 2012

Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F major, k.370
With Mea Wade and players from the Royal Academy of Music...

Wednesday 8 February 2012

England’s take off as the first industrial nation created a whole new language of building underpinned by technology and by an...

Wednesday 1 February 2012

The first of a series of three lectures, in the run-up to the London Olympic Games 2012, that will consider the ethical and political...

Wednesday 1 February 2012

Rotation is a fundamental physical process throughout the Universe. So much is spinning, from planets and stars revolving on their axes...

Tuesday 31 January 2012

Perhaps the distinguishing characteristic of Christianity compared with other religious traditions is belief in God incarnate in Christ...

Thursday 26 January 2012

The prospect of an apprenticeship attracted thousands of youths to the guild masters of early modern London. Where did apprentices come...

Tuesday 24 January 2012

From the 1880s through to the First World War, European empires slowly imposed their control on the territories that in many cases...

Thursday 19 January 2012

Despite the onslaught of legislative initiatives surrounding AML/CTF, it is difficult to make any conclusive remarks on the...