The Roman Denarius and the Euro: A precedent for monetary union? A look at the way the Roman Empire has sometimes...
Culture and Resistance: Indigenous Responses to a Globalised World This lecture looks at the place occupied by indigenous cultures...
Why is Africa still the poorest continent? Among 29 countries where human life expectancy is still 50...
Costing the arms race: drugs, super-bugs and the appliance of science Does the spread of multiply-resistant microbes signal the end of...
Utopia: The Symbol of Mount Athos in the West A conference held jointly with the Warburg Institute and the...
Birth control, Death control and the Demographic Transition The improving survival rates of children, and the freedom to...