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In this talk, Dr Rutter will be discussing Shakespeare's Othello in relation to recent work on race in Elizabethan England, as well as the way black people are depicted in other texts of the period.

• 5pm - Welcome and housekeeping
• 5.05pm - Overview of the school/department
• 5.20pm - Lecture
• 5.50pm - Time for questions on the topic/student life with a student ambassador supporting. 

Please note all timings are approximate, but the session will be no longer than 90 minutes.

Over the last two decades, historians have begun writing the history of the 'Global Cold War'. 

Rather than treating the Cold War as merely a conflict between two superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - it is now widely acknowledged that the Cold War was a truly global conflict, drawing in actors from across the world who were capable of shaping the wider international system. 

This lecture will explore how the history of Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century fits into these global histories of the Cold War. Latin America's Cold War had a particular set of local dynamics, fundamentally shaped by the region's proximity to the United States and the long history of US interventionism in the Western hemisphere. Nonetheless, in this period Latin Americans on both sides of the Cold War ideological divide were able to challenge US hegemony. 

This lecture will highlight the crucial role that Latin Americans - from Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to lesser known figures - played in shaping the global Cold War.

• 5pm - Welcome and housekeeping
• 5.05pm - Overview of the school/department
• 5.20pm - Lecture
• 5.50pm - Time for questions on the topic/student life with a student ambassador supporting. 

Please note all timings are approximate, but the session will be no longer than 90 minutes.

Get ready for a captivating deep-dive into the vibrant world of contemporary East Asian popular culture! In this talk, we’ll uncover how film, television, and music not only entertain but also serve as powerful tools for revisiting the past. Through a nostalgic lens, these cultural forms invite us to reimagine national histories and challenge traditional narratives. We’ll explore how memory and media intersect—revealing popular culture as not just a reflection of history, but as a compelling force in rewriting it.

• 5.30pm - Welcome and housekeeping
• 5.35pm - Overview of the school/department
• 5.50pm - Lecture
• 6.20pm - Time for questions on the topic/student life with a student ambassador supporting. 

Please note all timings are approximate, but the session will be no longer than 90 minutes.

Lots of people think that freedom is valuable. But what is freedom? And what's so good about it? Do lockdown regulations take away our freedom? How about laws against drugs? Or laws requiring us to wear seatbelts? If these laws do take away our freedom, does that mean there's something wrong with them? And maybe it's not just rules that tell you what you can't do that limit freedom. Are you really free if you have no money, or lack access to healthcare, or can't afford to get an education? These are important questions for all of us, and this session will show how ideas from political philosophy can help us to start answering them.

• 5pm - Welcome and housekeeping
• 5.05pm - Overview of the school/department
• 5.20pm - Lecture
• 5.50pm - Time for questions on the topic/student life with a student ambassador supporting. 

Please note all timings are approximate, but the session will be no longer than 90 minutes