Open lectures

Why is our current political climate so polarised? Why do many people feel alienated from political discourse? Does politics still have the power to improve people’s lives?

As part of National Inclusion Week, the life-changing journeys of student mothers are focused on in this talk, including that of the speaker, a single mother and student who gained a new career as an academic.

Join us for the Society for Legal Scholars’ Inaugural Baroness Hale Lecture to hear Baroness Brenda Hale in-conversation about her upcoming memoir Spider Woman: A Life.

By reviewing approximately a century of cement and concrete in Switzerland, this talk will examine the relations between institutions, discourse, and technology as they intersect in the material.

Join Dr Raphaël Nowak as he makes the cases for musical genres as a cultural category.

Reportage artist George Butler talks about his work drawing on front lines, in refugee camps and on the move.

Drawing on a range of visual culture including photography, film, cartoons and fine art, the seminar will explore the many meanings of the female body in 1950s Britain.

The early medieval Northumbrian kingdom stretched across much of the central part of Britain. To its north and west, it looked towards lands that were, or became, part of the Gaelic-speaking world.

Jane Hawkes looks at recent engagements with Anglo-Saxon art, focussing on its visual effects.

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected us all, join Professor Dingwall as he looks at how this crisis has been managed and what can we learn for the future.

This talk will look at self-help strategies for managing feelings of anxiety and low mood and the evidence base for the effectiveness of these strategies.

In the third in a series of Arctivism Conversations a panel of artists and activists from the Amazon will discuss their survival strategies and their struggle against the destruction of their environment.

Marcus Milwright discusses the cache of ancient parchment fragments recovered from the Great Mosque in Sana‘a’ in Yemen, which included two folios with elaborate architectural designs.

Adam Phillips delivers his Autumn Term lecture

Nicole Brown discusses what it means to be different in contemporary higher education.

Forensic psychiatrist, Gwen Adshead, has spent thirty years providing therapy inside secure hospitals and prisons. Hear her stories of cruelty and despair but also of change and recovery.

In a world where AI, VLEs, Zoom etc. seem to be everywhere, meet Kamishibai, a centuries-old Japanese storytelling tradition which is being revived for modern international audiences.