Talk Matters

Professor Heritage is one of the world’s most prominent conversation analysts, and a leading figure in the study of social interaction, in both ‘everyday’ life and institutional settings

Wonders on Wednesday – the Petyt Collection

A drop in session where everyone is welcome to come and handle some of the Petyt collection including a coloured atlas, an early chronicle of the world, and the dissection of a rat - something for everyone!

A foot in two camps? and Tales from the hungry mind

The Department of Education hold two inaugural lectures back-to-back

Aesthetics, politics and pleasure: How literature transforms us

Although literature can be seen as another cultural product competing for ideological supremacy, ultimately it is the beauty of literary language which provides pleasure and allows us to meditate on our particular 21st century human experience

Masculinities and the emergence of public politics in late Medieval England: A sketch

This lecture explores how and why it could be that masculinities based on violence and personal status proved so resilient as new forms of public politics became established in the thirteenth and fourteenth century