Dyslexia and Language - Disorder or Difference? Difficulties with reading and writing have wide-ranging effects beyond academic...
Utopia: The Symbol of Mount Athos in the West A conference held jointly with the Warburg Institute and the...
Rare and Endangered Languages - 'Why should we protect endangered languages?' Dr Nicholas Ostler argues for the preservation of the world's...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer The historian Daniel Boorstin famously defined a celebrity as "a...
Historical Fiction from Sir Walter Scott to Georgette Heyer and Hilary Mantel Until the 1970s, historical fiction was a scorned genre that...
SeaChange: Reversing the Tide The highly-acclaimed lecture/performance combines the knowledge of science and the...
The Language of the King James Bible: Ongoing Translations In this lecture, Professor David Ford presents his research into...
Rare and Endangered Languages: Language Documentation and Revitalisation Professor Peter Austin outlines a number of projects aimed at...