The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer This lecture will explore the 'celebrification' of contemporary popular culture...
Painting the Soul: Byzantium to El Greco Professor Robin Cormack, The Getty Research Institute and Courtauld Institute...
Debussy - Text and Ideas: Verlaine's poetry performed through Debussy's musical sounds: 'Spleen' in text and song Dr Dubiau-Feuillerac argues that Debussy was attracted to Paul Verlaine’s...
The challenge of atheist literature: Beckett, Pullman and McEwan Some works of literature today are written from a consciously...
Goethe the Musician and his influence on German Song Germany's greatest poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), seemed to...
The face of Charles Dickens - portraits of the great author Charles Dickens was drawn, painted and photographed more than most...
Restoration and Reaction: Palaces of the Restoration Charles II's court has often been portrayed as devoted to...
Feliks Topolski: Eye witness to the 20th Century Between 1975 and 1989, the Polish-born expressionist artist, Feliks Topolski...
Japanese Women in Tanka Poetry: from the 4th to the 13th Century Hisashi Nakamura and Ria Ulleri introduced the poetic world of...