Having a Laugh? Comedy and Comedians Humour depends upon a delicate balance of emotional arousal (a...
What is Happening to Christianity? Insights from Africa Christianity’s centre of gravity has shifted to the Global South. What do these changes mean for our understanding of the world’s largest religion?
Finding Stable Matches: The Mathematics of Computer Dating Computer systems use mathematics to fly aircraft, carry out complex...
The History of British Cartoons and Caricature Political, satirical, comic and incendiary: from Hogarth's images of London...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer This lecture will explore the 'celebrification' of contemporary popular culture...
Choosing a Past for the Future: Why today's environment policy is also history (but doesn't know it) It is hard to imagine an area of policy more...
Psychologising and Neurologising about Religion: Facts, Fallacies and the Future The original Boyle Lectures took place annually between 1692 and...