Japanese Women in Tanka Poetry: from the 4th to the 13th Century Hisashi Nakamura and Ria Ulleri introduced the poetic world of...
Painting the Soul: Byzantium to El Greco Professor Robin Cormack, The Getty Research Institute and Courtauld Institute...
The face of Charles Dickens - portraits of the great author Charles Dickens was drawn, painted and photographed more than most...
“Getting to know you”: how do animals recognise each other and us? For social animals one of the major skills that must...
Animal senses: how do they perceive the world and what important things can they sense that we cannot? The way the world is perceived by any species is...
Commerce and Culture in the Late Twentieth Century This is the 2001 'Sir Thomas Gresham Annual Lecture'
Textual Communities: How do we recognise value in the verbal arts? A lecture to consider some of the new approaches to...
Do you take risks when you read? Risk-taking in literature A lecture on some writing whose form seems to place...