From hunting dogs to Silk Road camels and urban cats, this lecture series explores how animals shaped human history, using archaeology and history to uncover the deep entanglements between people and domestic species.
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We will start by exploring different types of volcanoes and then learn to identify igneous rocks and how magma is formed thus creating different eruption styles. The tutor will use current events with live information as well as various case studies.
Join us in Oxford for this walking tour and examine the city's remarkable collection of grotesques and gargoyles. How has a medieval tradition found popularity in the present? What codes are hidden in the stones? Bring binoculars for close-up views!
This lecture will examine the transformation of Russian power under Putin, exploring how military rebuilding, strategic alliances, and conflicts in Crimea and Ukraine reshaped Russia’s global influence after the Cold War.
This lecture addresses Yugoslavia’s collapse as driven by internal divisions, economic crisis, and nationalism; international actors were inconsistent and sometimes worsened events, but had limited capacity to prevent disintegration.
This lecture will reassess Bush’s path to the Gulf War, from early hesitation and pressure for diplomacy to a hardened stance shaped by domestic and strategic factors, culminating in Desert Storm and the liberation of Kuwait.
This lecture series will evaluate the most controversial decisions in international relations since the end of the Cold War. It focuses on the balance of decision making between diplomacy and military conflict.
Who am I? Why am I this way? Why do I make certain choices? Can I change? This introductory online day event presents the main psychological theories of personality and how psychologists measure it.
The Bayeux Tapestry is a unique medieval artefact with an extraordinary history. It has survived for almost a thousand years despite misuse, fire, revolution, exploitation and attempted theft. This lecture will trace its history.
This series examines successful Prime Ministers who secured re-election after serving at least one term in office. It explores how they gained and maintained power, focusing on political ideology, campaign strategies and leadership.
Explore quantum gravity and the search for a Theory of Everything in this one-day course. From string theory to loop quantum gravity, discover cutting-edge ideas uniting physics and uncover the universe’s deepest question.
This lecture will concentrate upon the lasting legacies of the 1920s, in cultural terms.