The Humanities Society organises regular talks spanning a wide range of topics. Every Tuesday during term time.
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past', George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four. The maxim is more true for Putin’s Russia than for any other country in the world. This talk will explore how Putin’s mythic reading of Russian history has informed his ruling ideology.
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How we can develop ‘death activism’ – a variety of tactics and posthuman practices which celebrate death, its inevitability, its forms, from the slow to times of crisis, and how can trauma and mourning emerge as their own forms of expression, or even activism?
We are delighted to welcome Sandi Toksvig OBE as our speaker for Wolfson's prestigious Lee Lecture this year.
How did architecture schools respond to the need to rebuild Britain after World War Two?
How can material culture be used to reconstruct ancient human stories?