Wolfson College Humanities Society

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A collection of lectures organised by the Wolfson College Cambridge Humanities Society.

Episode Date
Laura Zucconi: Transgendered Copper Mining in the Levant
Jun 08, 2015
Robert Koepp - George Elliot and the Religion of Favourable Chance
May 28, 2015
Bjorn L. Basberg: Maynard Keynes and his Whaling Adventures
May 26, 2015
Jennifer Davis: Trade (mark) Wars, 1860-1920: Sweatshops, the Retail Trade and the Meaning of Trade Marks
May 20, 2015
Simon Szreter: Social Security in Britain -cost or benefit ? A historical perspective on a 2015 general election issue
May 08, 2015
Professor Warren Dockter - Churchill and the Islamic World
Apr 29, 2015
Dr Justin Colson on London Bridge
Mar 05, 2015
Dr Rowan Williams - Mysticism and politics; some thoughts about St Teresa of Avila
Feb 25, 2015
Dr Robert Amundsen - Ibsen's women on and off the stage
Feb 23, 2015
Professor Julius Lipner - Hinduism: the challenges of a polycentric approach to shaping our world
Feb 12, 2015
Professor David Feldman - Israel and Antisemitism
Feb 12, 2015
Adriana Alexander - The Honour of Sharing : the Sharing of Honour
Jan 22, 2015
Professor Nigel Morgan: The Oldest Illustrated Book in Cambridge - a reconsideration of the St. Augustine Gospels
Jan 21, 2015
Hugh Gault: C.R.Fay: The Differences between Making History and Writing It
Dec 18, 2014
Dr Alexi Baker: Technology, Tools, and Toys of Early Modern Science
Dec 18, 2014
Dr Nick Saville - Communications in a Globalised World: English is necessary but not sufficient
Nov 06, 2014
Professor Jerry White - Dickens during the Great War
Nov 06, 2014
Professor Robin Cormack: “The nightingales won’t let you sleep in Platres”. Re-visiting the Greek Past
Oct 22, 2014
Dr Patricia Fara - Erasmus Darwin: Poet of Progress
Oct 20, 2014
Dr Mary Laven: Wax, wood and narrative: the miraculous culture of Renaissance Italy
Jun 10, 2014
J. Lee Thompson: Un-Righteous Neutrality: Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War, 1914-1917
May 30, 2014
Professor David Runciman: Climate Change and Conspiracy Theory
May 30, 2014
Professor Sir Richard Evans: Gender and Sexuality in Victorian England
May 30, 2014
David Jacques: Blick Mead: The Cradle of Stonehenge?
May 13, 2014
Bill Lubenow: Intellectual Societies: Intimacy and Knowledge in the 19th Century
May 13, 2014
Dr Ben Griffin: Fidgets, Scoundrels and Mummy's Boys: Performing Masculinity in the Victorian House of Commons
Mar 12, 2014
Professor Tony Lentin: Rogue Judges - Rebels or Reformers? The Case of Sir Henry McCardie
Mar 05, 2014
Dr Suvi Salmenniemi: Neoliberalism, Socialism, and the Politics of Knowledge
Feb 26, 2014
Philip Allott: 'The True Function of Education'
Feb 13, 2014
Dr Dan Carter: Reform, Revolution, Reaction. Land and the indigenous question in Allende's Chile
Feb 06, 2014
Dr David Taylor: Spectators at the Print Shop Window: Caricature and the Rhetoric of the Gaze
Jan 22, 2014
Louise Foxcroft : Calories and Corsets: 2000 years of diets and dieting
Nov 14, 2013
Professor Sir Tony Wrigley: Energy and the industrial revolution: opening Pandora's box
Oct 23, 2013
Dr Anna Upchurch: The Arts and Humanities Today: Re-framing the ‘value’ debate
Oct 16, 2013
Prof. Simon Goldhill: Sappho, Lincoln, & the American Senate: Picturing Female Desire in the 19th Century
Jun 18, 2013
Professor David Maxwell: Zimbabwe since Independence
May 29, 2013
Professor Bruce Berman: Culture, Politics, identity: how we know who we think we are
May 22, 2013
Dr Amira Bennison: Architecture & Design in Medieval Morocco: the building strategies of the Marinid sultans
May 01, 2013
Dr Lauren Arrington: Art, Empire, and Revolution: the Lives of Constance and Casimir Markievicz
Mar 14, 2013
Professor Sir Richard Evans: Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen and his "Diary of a Man in Despair": a conservative rebel in Hitler's Germany
Mar 13, 2013
Dr Glen Rangwala: The Aftermath of War: Iraq Ten Years On
Feb 26, 2013
Dr Michael C Scott: Best Seat in the House: viewing Greek history through its theatre
Feb 19, 2013
Professor Simon Blackburn: Brains, Science, and Human Nature
Feb 19, 2013