British Studies Lecture Series
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The British Studies program at the University of Texas at Austin was created in 1975. For more than thirty years the program has sponsored public lectures in English literature, history, and government, and has conducted a weekly seminar called the Faculty Seminar on British Studies that includes faculty members, graduate students, undergraduates, and members of the Austin community.
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Why Humanities Courses Are in Distress: A Modest Proposal for a Remedy
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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Why Did Elizabethans and Jacobeans Read Shakespeare’s Plays?
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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Imperial Recessional: Sir William Luce and the Creation of the United Arab Emirates
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Philip Goad (Harvard) on British and American architecture
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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The London Review of Books
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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How George Washington Defeated the British Empire
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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P. G. Wodehouse and Politics: What Did He Know, and When Did He Know It?
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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Churchill’s Most Difficult Decisions
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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‘When I feel very near to God, I always feel such a need to undress’: Religion, Nakedness and the Body Divine
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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Jane Austen’s Lost Books
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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Facts, Censorship, and Spin: Covering the Pacific War from Australia, 1942
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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Political Leadership in Macbeth and Coriolanus
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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The Novels of Benjamin Disraeli and Oscar Wilde
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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The Cultural Identity of American Libraries
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Carnival in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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C. P. Snow and the Two Cultures of Medicine and the Humanities
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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Walter Scott, the Stuarts, and Stewardship
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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Book Launch: 150 Highly Recommended Books
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May 28, 2019 |
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Fake News, Alternative Facts, and the Question of Truth
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May 28, 2019 |
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Biographies: Research, Writing, and Reviews
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May 28, 2019 |
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After Empire: Britain, the United States, and the Iranian Revolution
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May 28, 2019 |
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Countess Noël, Heroine of the Titanic
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May 28, 2019 |
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A UT Ethics Center? The Oxford Ethics Centre in Comparison – Round Table Discussion
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May 28, 2019 |
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How the British Left Palestine
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May 28, 2019 |
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Worldwide Consequences of American Expansion in 1898
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May 28, 2019 |
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Brexit: An Historical Romance
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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Samuel Beckett: Joycean and Surreal?
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Apr 19, 2019 |
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Heroes of the Intellect: Unbelief and Enlightenment Values across the Ages
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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America’s Global Empire
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Apr 06, 2019 |
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Brexit’s Past: Withdrawals from the Empire
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Apr 05, 2019 |
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William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and America, 1880– 1920
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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She Moves in Mysterious Ways: Jane Eyre’s Journeys
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Feb 22, 2019 |
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Britain as a Superpower, 1945-1957
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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Oxford’s Battle for the Soul of Classics
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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Cyprus and World War II: A Turning Point in the War in the Mediterranean
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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Alan Turing: Genius, Patriot, Victim
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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‘To Be or Not to Be’ Through the Ages
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle and the New Era in the History of Biology
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Nov 21, 2018 |
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Bloomsbury and Harry Potter
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Nov 16, 2018 |
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Seamus Heaney & the London Origins of the Belfast Group
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Nov 02, 2018 |
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Éamon de Valera and the Creation of Modern Ireland
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Oct 26, 2018 |
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Martyrs and Mistresses in Restoration London
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Oct 19, 2018 |
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Light Reading for Intellectual Heavyweights
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Oct 12, 2018 |
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Australia and the Non-Acceptance of Refugees
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Oct 05, 2018 |
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Castro’s Challenge to Britain and the United States
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Sep 07, 2018 |
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Scotland and Brexit
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Sep 06, 2018 |
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Florence Nightingale, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Health Care – James Scott, Statistics and Data Sciences
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Apr 20, 2018 |
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Worldwide Consequences of American Expansion in 1898 – Karl Rove
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Apr 13, 2018 |
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America’s Global Empire – Tony Hopkins
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Apr 06, 2018 |
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Subversive, Rebellious, Genre-Busting: 18th and 19th Century Women Writers Move to Center Stage – Carol MacKay
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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Running With Shakespeare – Tom Cable
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Mar 23, 2018 |
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British Labour, American Labor, and the Creation of the State of Israel
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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September 08, 2006 – Peter Stanley – All Imaginable Excuses: Australian Deserters and the Fall of Singapore
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Sep 11, 2017 |
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September 01, 2006 – Kurt Heinzelman, Michael Charlesworth – Tony Harrison’s ‘v.’
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Sep 07, 2017 |