David Mitchell

D. H. Lawrence’s thinking was influenced by reading Darwin. Did this move him, as it did some novelists, towards a tragic vision…

Psychology and neuroscience throw light on the harms that online social media can cause. They can also help us to devise remedies….

‘The Father of Coloured Harlem’: The life-story of Philip A. Payton (1876–1917) tells us a lot about racial dynamics in the modern history…

American Poetry: In the work of three American ‘confessional poets’, the poetic self is explored. But history was important to them too.

A week before the announcement that according to the UN’s World Happiness Report the world’s happiest country is Finland, Yaprak Tavman’s talk…

Google and Facebook between them account for about 70% of online advertising. Is that an objectionable dominance, asked Stephen Dnes in his recent talk, or are the markets in which these technology companies operate somehow different from most other markets?

In this illustrated talk Ursula Smartt (Faculty of Law) described her extensive experience of visiting prisons in Britain and abroad, and reviewed…

“The Limits of Hybridity and the Crisis of Liberal Peace”, a talk by Dr. David Rampton, Lecturer in World Politics, on the ideas…

“Winning the War for Democracy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Black Civil Rights during the Second World War”, a talk by Dr. Olly Ayers, Lecturer in History and Politics

– Olly’s was a talk of many parts: it ranged, in an exemplary way, from large reflections on method and the relations between disciplines to the presentation of some of the findings of a recent research trip of his to the US. There was a highly instructive picture quiz at one point too.

“J S Mill’s Philosophy of History”, a talk by Dr. Callum Barrell, Lecturer in Politics & International Relations.

As a colleague whose research interests are decidedly interdisciplinary, Callum duly delivered a talk that straddled the faculties. His main thesis was that John Stuart Mill developed over a period of years a philosophy of history which very much informed his mature political ideas and in particular his proposals for political change.