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An introduction to Chinese Calligraphy.

Jhahnavi Phalkey and Tong Lam, ‘Science of giants: China and India in the twentieth century’, The British Journal of the History of Science 1 (2016); and Fa-Ti Fan and John Mathew, ‘Negotiating natural history in transitional China and British India’, BJHS 1 (2016)

Reading chapters

Science of Giants: China and India in the Twentieth Century

Negotiating natural history in transitional China and British India

Jhahnavi Phalkey and Tong Lam, ‘Science of giants: China and India in the twentieth century’, The British Journal of the History of Science 1 (2016); and Fa-Ti Fan and John Mathew, ‘Negotiating natural history in transitional China and British India’, BJHS 1 (2016)

Reading chapters TBC

Prof. Matthew Leigh, St Anne's College, University of Oxford

'The Masons and the Mysteries in 18th Century Drama'

Professor Leigh's research interests are in Latin Literature and Roman History. Recent publications have included work on Lucan, food in Latin literature, and ancient ideas of curiosity.

http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/matthewleigh.html

All welcome

Julia Boffey (Queen Mary), ‘Here speaketh the author’: foregrounding late medieval English poets in manuscript and print’

Alison Gibbons (Sheffield Hallam): Uses and Abuses of Reading Life: Morality, Fictionality, and the Trial of Ahmed Naji

Prof. Thomas Docherty will give the first of the MHRA Centenary Lectures on ‘Justice, Economic and Law: Humanities and the Tragedies of Revenge’. The lecture will be at 5pm on February 7th at SO.19 with a reception at the end. All interested are welcome to attend. For more information please see:

Lecture Details

As the annual BSR/ICS named lecturer, Prof Zahra Newby will give a lecture at the British School in Rome, entitled 'Staging the City: community, identity and hierarchy in the theatre at Hierapolis (Phrygia)'

The ancient theatre was a place where the city came together in communal celebration of festivals while also displaying internal and external hierarchies. Focussing on the theatre of Hierapolis in Phrygia, which saw a major refurbishment in the early third century AD, this lecture explores the interaction between physical space and the activities it enclosed and enabled. At Hierapolis, architecture, figural and epigraphic display and human action worked in synergy to construct civic hierarchies and identities, staging the city to itself and the wider world.

This lecture draws on Prof Newby's Leverhulme Trust-funded Research Project, Materiality and Meaning in Greek Festival Culture of the Roman Imperial Period