EXPs in Culture & Ideas

How a city holds memory and ethical depth

Understanding our cities to understand ourselves

Joyce's Dublin: the richness and diversity of urban life

The state of contemporary novel

The life and times of Virginia Woolf

Literary realism and the age of the novel

Rediscovering Proust in Latin America

A brief history of Cuban literature

Conversation about Mario Vargas Llosa

Sexual jokes and responding to sexism in comedy

Religion and the moral seriousness of joking

Politics and the power of joking

The real story about Derrida's ideas on truth

Breaking down deconstruction with Derrida

The experiences that formed philosopher Jacques Derrida

The modern notion of territory

The relation between people, power and place

Foucault and "the History of Sexuality"

Thinking about the question of power with Foucault

Ecology, nature and the 21st century architect

Transforming cities through landscape architecture

Architecture and nature

Indian presence in Bloomsbury and in British Literary History:

Writing a Caribbean London

The long line of Black and Asian British literature

Global India, democracy and violence

How violence became quintessential to the idea of the Modern State

Why the history of feminism has blind spots

The Enlightenment and early modern feminism

Living on the Russia–China border

The contribution of the anthropologist

Understanding other people’s worlds

Migrant Trauma, City Walkers

Trauma and the Challenge to Western Therapeutic Paradigms

The unseen poverty in our cities

The philosophy of wine

Wittgenstein and the nature of philosophical explanation

Wittgenstein and the ambition of philosophy, logic and language

The Black Death: Society under pressure

A brief history of the Virgin Mary

Organising Christianity in the 1100s

Why Marx still matters today

Engels, Lenin and the development of Marxism

Understanding Marx in context

Lady Chatterley, woman and sexuality

Literature's response to social crises

Denazification and culture in post-war Germany

What it really means to be a Lacanian

Creating space: Lacan as a revolutionary clinical practitioner

How Lacan radically changed psychoanalysis

Charles Dickens, self-made Victorian sensation

Jane Austen, an unlikely genius

The 18th century novel: commercial and cultural buzz

Putting anger into words

The force of anger

The experience of abandonment

Loneliness and solitude

A brief history of Magical Realism

South African writing before, during and after Apartheid

Exploring the natural and the supernatural in literature

Touch: the most powerful of our senses

A brief history of Iconoclasm

Why we should read John Milton's poetry today

Colonialism and racism in, and through psychoanalysis

How we learnt to take trauma seriously

Psychoanalysis in politics, a history of conservatism and neutrality

A brief biography of Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex"

Sartre, Beauvoir and existentialism

Spinoza and the importance of living together

Spinoza and the relationship between the body and the mind

Spinoza, the philosopher, and the virtue of fortitude

Using the internet in rural China

The neural correlates of consciousness

Simone Weil and the relationship between action and thought

Eleanor Marx and women today

Rosa Luxemburg: revolution and the power of democracy

The power of poetry in our lives

What we learn from Greek tragedy

Poetry and harmony in Ancient Greece

The Greek miracle and the invention of national discourse in Ancient Greece

The "fourth industrial revolution"

The myths around technology

What is technology?

Loneliness, disability and social justice

Pandemic lives and what it reveals about meaning

Greetings, partings and the magic of Shakespeare

Shakespeare and male and female bodies

Listening to Shakespeare: dreams and reality

Kant and how to live in purely rational terms

Kant's philosophy and the spectacles through which we see the world

Kant and the Enlightenment

Our data should be ours

Art, technology and ethics

Love, coupledom and infidelity

Sexual paranoia and the rise of governance feminism

The art of transgression

World literature and the international order

Literature and the law

Human rights seen through literature

Deliberating collectively in Aristotle's time and in our own

What Aristotle can teach us about positive emotions

Aristotle's ethics: the journey towards happiness

Bridging cultures and questioning the canon

How knowledge circulates

The common language of ideas

Immigration, religion and the return of the British Empire

How Islam came to be a global phenomenon

Gandhi's leadership, vision of sacrifice and the ends of universalism

The history of thinking about wellbeing

Shakespeare in popular "world" culture

Reading as a collective cultural experience

How we read literature to understand ourselves better

Preparing for the impossible: Hannah Arendt's legacy

Hannah Arendt and the banality of evil

Thinking with Hannah Arendt

The importance of beauty in the selection of species

Metamorphosis

The double lives of plants

The end of the cold war and a new world coming

The rise and fall of Empires: from the Opium War to the great wars

The world in 1500 and the emergence of global consciousness

A brief history of mind control

A brief history of war

The human rights journey, from moral philosophy to the political forum

Private life behind the Berlin Wall in East Germany

Civilisation in crisis: the history of a concept

The anthropologist: acknowledging suffering and redressing the loss

How the Inuit mapped their lives and reclaimed their land

The Other: the uncomfortable story of the imperial project

Vienna and the Holocaust

Looking at Dürer's apocalypse and self-portrait

Albrecht Dürer: the first global artist

What makes a film a classic in a world where everyone is a critic

The experience of watching a film

How cinema changed us

The importance of Confucius to understanding modern China

Darwin's thoughts on human nature

Does DNA alone shape our brains?

Understanding the power of art

Making art: from solitary genius to collective experience

Looking at art: a two-way process

Why read The Odyssey today

What the Ancient Greeks tell us about sexuality

The legacy of the ancient Greek world

On affection, friendship, love and hate

Reading Freud today

The state of unpreparedness

70 million refugees and the ethical core of citizenship

The limits of global freedom: where is home in today's world?

Feminisms and the grounds of division

How capitalism has transformed relationships and emotional life

Sexual violence, feminist thinking and the fight for political change

Women's leadership, political movements and minority rights

Modern democracy and what we mean by it

The reparative dialogue between Jews and Germans after the Holocaust