How Folktales Contributed to the Confucianisation of Korea: Mother Green Tree Frog and her Children Through an examination of selected Korean folktales, the lecture will...
Japanese Women in Tanka Poetry: from the 4th to the 13th Century Hisashi Nakamura and Ria Ulleri introduced the poetic world of...
Crime in Fiction: Defoe and Dickens to Spark, Highsmith and McEwan Why did stories of criminals become irresistible for novelists? Starting...
The Death Penalty: A Colonial Relic? This lecture explores the death penalty's roots, its abolition in...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...
Race, Disability & Education: Law's Uphill Battle This lecture traces the history of race and disability law...
Medical Experts in the Family Court: Where Two Worlds Collide How does everyday medical practice get interpreted in the courtroom...
Singing the Laws: Ancient Greek Lawgivers in History and Legend While Lycurgus of Sparta and Solon of Athens are now...