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'Poets in Purgatory' Video
Contemporary poets read from their translations of the Purgatorio and from their poems about Dante.
How does climate crisis change the curriculum?
A Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences event. Shifting the question from how should climate change be put into the curriculum? to how does it transform the curriculum? ope
The Diasporic Quartets: Identity and Aesthetics
Keynote lecture in the Diversity and the British String Quartet Symposium, day 3, held on 16th June 2021. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A
The string quartet takes residence: class, community, curricula
Keynote lecture in the Diversity and the British String Quartet Symposium, held on 14th June 2021. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwa
Art and Action: Benjamin Zephaniah in Conversation
Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
Book at Lunchtime: Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism
Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held weekly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines. The events are free to attend and open to all.
Book at Lunchtime: Born to Write
A TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France by Professor Neil Kenny.
Book at Lunchtime: Porcelain - Poem on the Downfall of my City
TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City by Durs Grnbein, translated by Professor Karen Leeder.
Book at Lunchtime: China’s Good War
A TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on China's Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism by Professor Rana Mitter.
The Formula of Giving Heart: Panel Discussion and Conversation with the Artist
Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.