The climate crisis brought about in the Anthropocene has emerged in recent years as not only the backdrop to growing global neo-fascisms but often as their cause. How we respond to…
Is spectator sport ‘just a game’? Or is it one of the principal mass communications channels for reinforcing structures of power and control, and making them appear ‘normal’? What…
This one-day course will explore the relationship of art to politics and the methods of public persuasion before advertising was widely used and social media had been invented.
While colonization is broadly thought of as having officially ended in the decades following the second world war, the (im)balance of power created by colonialism is still present…
Ever since Francis Fukuyama’s ill-fated prediction that the liberal democratic model was here to stay, democracies seem to be threatened on all sides – from religious…
Do we have an obligation to obey the law? Where do our rights come from? Should we have the freedom to offend? What does democracy mean? Does capitalism work? These are just some of …
Bring your passion for politics and social change together to critically explore how the latest formations of the religious, the spiritual and the secular are producing new agendas…
Forms as different as displays, theatre performances, ethnological exhibitions, freak shows, and the circus provided not only vibrant entertainment in Victorian Britain but also a…
This course offers a historical explanation for our divided times. Looking back to the Countercultural revolution of the 1960s, to Civil Rights, and the rise of Feminism, it shows…
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