Wolfson College Humanities Society
| Created: | 2015-07-09 13:55 |
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| Institution: | Office of External Affairs and Communications |
| Description: | A collection of lectures organised by the Wolfson College Cambridge Humanities Society. |
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This collection contains 45 media items.
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Adriana Alexander - The Honour of Sharing : the Sharing of Honour
How does a Lovari extended family enact the sharing of material resources, and of intangible gifts conveyed through gesture, dance, song and speech? How do these practices confer...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Thu 22 Jan 2015
Bill Lubenow: Intellectual Societies: Intimacy and Knowledge in the 19th Century
E.M. Forster’s famous phrase, ‘Only Connect’, is not only a guide to a successful emotional life; it is also a guide to cognition. The universities were reformed in the...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Tue 13 May 2014
Bjorn L. Basberg: Maynard Keynes and his Whaling Adventures
The economist John Maynard Keynes’ activities on the stock market are well known. One company in which he bought stocks in the late 1920s was the Hector Whaling Company Ltd. The...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Tue 26 May 2015
David Jacques: Blick Mead: The Cradle of Stonehenge?
The discovery of a spring complex, adjacent to Vespasian's Camp and just over a mile from Stonehenge, with well preserved and substantial Mesolithic deposits, potentially...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Tue 13 May 2014
Dr Alexi Baker: Technology, Tools, and Toys of Early Modern Science
Dr Alexi Baker’s research over the past decade has revealed how ‘scientific instruments’ before the rise of modern science included everything from cutting-edge technologies and...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Thu 18 Dec 2014
Dr Amira Bennison: Architecture & Design in Medieval Morocco: the building strategies of the Marinid sultans
This talk explores the ways in which the Marinid dynasty in Morocco exploited architecture and display to legitimise themselves before their subjects, a volatile mix of restive...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Wed 1 May 2013
Dr Anna Upchurch: The Arts and Humanities Today: Re-framing the ‘value’ debate
How can the arts and humanities meet the challenges of contemporary society without relying on notions of socio-economic impact? This talk contributes to current debates on...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Wed 16 Oct 2013
Dr Ben Griffin: Fidgets, Scoundrels and Mummy's Boys: Performing Masculinity in the Victorian House of Commons
This talk examines the gendered political culture of the Victorian House of Commons by looking at the efforts that politicians made to appear ‘manly’. This culture had very real...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Wed 12 Mar 2014
Dr Dan Carter: Reform, Revolution, Reaction. Land and the indigenous question in Allende's Chile
This talk explores the familiar topic of Chile under the Popular Unity Government (1970-1973) from a less familiar angle: the indigenous heartlands of the south. Here, unresolved...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Thu 6 Feb 2014
Dr David Hickman: Triumph of the Real: From The Communist Manifesto to Jason Bourne
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, cinematic realism was the most significant revolution in visual culture since the late Renaissance. Not only did it carry along...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Thu 18 Dec 2014
Dr David Taylor: Spectators at the Print Shop Window: Caricature and the Rhetoric of the Gaze
This paper offers a close reading of the grammar of the gaze offered in eighteenth-century prints that depict crowds of people looking at the window displays of London’s many...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Wed 22 Jan 2014
Dr Glen Rangwala: The Aftermath of War: Iraq Ten Years On
This talk reviews the extent of Iraq’s transformation over the last ten years, looking at what Iraq’s experience shows about the limits of political change in a region marked by...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Tue 26 Feb 2013
Dr Justin Colson on London Bridge
Dr Justin Colson talks about London Bridge which has existed in one form or another since the fourteenth century. He explores the social world of the Bridge in the late fifteenth...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Thu 5 Mar 2015
Dr Lauren Arrington: Art, Empire, and Revolution: the Lives of Constance and Casimir Markievicz
Constance Markievicz (nee Gore-Booth, 1868-1927), was born to the privileged Protestant upper class in the west of Ireland. She embraced suffrage and then scandal as she left the...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Thu 14 Mar 2013
Dr Mary Laven: Wax, wood and narrative: the miraculous culture of Renaissance Italy
From the late fifteenth century, the walls of Italian shrines became crowded with tavolette dipinte – small painted wooden boards recording instances of sickness, violence,...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Tue 10 Jun 2014
Dr Michael C Scott: Best Seat in the House: viewing Greek history through its theatre
Theatres today are places of entertainment, dark spaces in which we cut ourselves off from the realities of daily life for a few hours. But theatre for the ancient Greeks was...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Tue 19 Feb 2013
Dr Nick Saville - Communications in a Globalised World: English is necessary but not sufficient
Cambridge English Language Assessment tests more than 5 million learners of English in over 100 countries every year and this constitutes a major asset in delivering the...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Thu 6 Nov 2014
Dr Patricia Fara - Erasmus Darwin: Poet of Progress
rasmus Darwin – Charles’s grandfather – was well-known among his eighteenth-
century contemporaries, highly respected by many but reviled by others. Energetic and sociable, this...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Mon 20 Oct 2014
Dr Robert Amundsen - Ibsen's women on and off the stage
There were two categories of women in Henrik Ibsen’s life: the women in his dramatic universe and the women in his own life. Ibsen’s attitude to women is highly complex: whereas...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Mon 23 Feb 2015
Dr Rowan Williams - Mysticism and politics; some thoughts about St Teresa of Avila
This year is the 500th anniversary of the birth of Teresa, one of the foremost ‘mystical’ writers of the Christian tradition. Research in the last fifty years has clarified more...
Collection: Humanities Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Wed 25 Feb 2015