The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer The historian Daniel Boorstin famously defined a celebrity as "a...
The Institutionalisation of the Arts in Early Victorian England The Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture for the Public Understanding of...
Being a Guitarist in the Time of Byron and Shelley With a player’s insight (a guitar of 1825 is my...
Science Fiction as a Literary Genre: Science Fiction in the Nineteenth Century The second part of this symposium includes the following talks...
Modern Reading in Historical Context: From Gutenberg to Naked Women Did the publication of Goethe’s epistolary novel, ‘The Sorrows of...
Christian Themes in Art: The First Christian Art and its Early Developments The earliest surviving Christian art is in the catacombs in...
Debussy - Text and Ideas: Reflections on the new edition of Pelléas Critical editing must of necessity concern itself with facts, many...
Women at the Piano: A History Through Images This lecture explores the emergence of the "femme au piano"...