Why Humanities Courses Are in Distress: A Modest Proposal for a Remedy
Paula Marantz Cohen DREXEL UNIVERSITY How can decline in enrollments in the humanities be explained? Nationwide in recent years estimates of the drop ...
British Studies Lecture Series
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The British Studies program at the University of Texas at Austin was created in 1975. For more than thirty years the program has sponsored public lectures in English literature, history, and government, and has conducted a weekly seminar called the Faculty Seminar on British Studies that includes faculty members, graduate students, undergraduates, and members of the Austin community.
Why Did Elizabethans and Jacobeans Read Shakespeare’s Plays?
Aaron Pratt HARRY RANSOM CENTER Before the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio in 1623 and the efforts of subsequent editors and critics, England...
Philip Goad (Harvard) on British and American architecture
Philip Goad is the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies (AY2019-20) at Harvard University and Chair of Architectu...
The London Review of Books
The London Review of Books was founded in 1979 during a strike at The Times that prevented the publication of the Times Literary Supplement. By the ti...
How George Washington Defeated the British Empire
Thomas Ricks NEW YORK TIMES If the best measure of a general is the ability to grasp the nature of the war he faces, and then to make adjustments, G...
P. G. Wodehouse and Politics: What Did He Know, and When Did He Know It?
Speaker – David Leal, Nuffield College, Oxford P.G. Wodehouse was England’s greatest comic writer. His new memorial at Westminster Abbey celebrates hi...
Churchill’s Most Difficult Decisions
Speaker – Allen Packwood, Churchill College, Cambridge Allen Packwood will use his knowledge of the Churchill Papers, held at Churchill College, Cambr...
‘When I feel very near to God, I always feel such a need to undress’: Religion, Nakedness and the Body Divine
Speaker – Philippa Levine Diverse institutions have attempted to order and to organize, to regulate and to banish, to promote and to sell nakedness. F...
Jane Austen’s Lost Books
Speaker – Janine Barchas In the nineteenth century, inexpensive editions of Jane Austen’s novels were made available to Britain’s working classes. The...
Facts, Censorship, and Spin: Covering the Pacific War from Australia, 1942
Speaker – Michael J. Birkner, Gettysburg College This lecture is about journalists based in Australia practicing their craft in 1942, when the prospec...