Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 This lecture explores new ways of understanding the crisis that...
"A Stout Heart in the Great Cesspool": Arthur Conan Doyle and London From the impressions of his first youthful visit, to his...
Queen Victoria: Images of Power and Empire This lecture will examine the images of power and empire...
Discovering Australia: The legend and the reality of the navigator-explorer Matthew Flinders Matthew Flinders is remembered as one of Britain’s greatest navigator-explorers...
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding Drawing on examples from the Israel-Palestine conflict, this lecture explores...
Lives in Limbo: Jewish Refugees in Portugal, 1940–1945 The Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture This lecture highlights the...
Science Fiction as a Literary Genre: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture This part of the symposium included the following talks: Introduction...
Adultery in the Novel, from Flaubert to Sally Rooney Adultery became the subject of some of the greatest European...