London - The Forgotten Hanseatic City: The Material Culture The second part of the symposium included the following talks...
The Last Stuarts and the Death of the Royal Powerhouse In his short reign James II built a surprising amount...
Plato's Cave: Thinking about Climate Change In The Republic, Plato explores the predicament of the Cave...
In the brain of the beholder? The principles of beauty and sex appeal What constitutes human facial beauty and bodily attractiveness? How do...
Experts in politics: Lessons from Socrates and Aristotle Socrates sought to test the expertise of everyone around him...
What went wrong in Latin America? The failures of import-substituting industrialisation In the Great Depression, producers of food and raw materials...
Artificial Selection: How Humans Have Shaped Evolution We often think of evolution as ‘something that happened’ in...
Democracy: Ancient Models, Modern Challenges Demokratia is the power (kratos) of the people (demos). But...
Ancient Greek Ideas of Equality under the Law The Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen has posed the question...
A 300,000-Year History of Human Evolution The species we recognise as our own - anatomically modern...