The Christian reticence of W H Auden Auden was arguably the most prodigiously talented of the great...
The challenge of atheist literature: Beckett, Pullman and McEwan Some works of literature today are written from a consciously...
SeaChange: Reversing the Tide The highly-acclaimed lecture/performance combines the knowledge of science and the...
Goethe the Musician and his influence on German Song Germany's greatest poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), seemed to...
Why is Africa still the poorest continent? Among 29 countries where human life expectancy is still 50...
Great Britain and the ‘Scramble for Africa’ The scramble for Africa in the 1880s saw the unclaimed...
Textual Communities: How do we recognise value in the verbal arts? A lecture to consider some of the new approaches to...
Will Cross-Cultural Theatre ever work on the English Stage? A lecture that approaches the question of the survival of...
Sex, Politics (and Religion)? Contemporary Plays and Classic Revivals in British Theatre A consideration of two waves of British theatre between the...