Speakers - James Loehlin, Alan Friedman, and Eric Mallin ENGLISH Hamlet’s ‘To Be or Not to Be’ soliloquy has long been Shakespeare’s most famous speech; but …
British Studies Lecture Series
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.
Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle and the New Era in the History of Biology
Speaker - Rodolfo John Alaniz HISTORY Charles Darwin's voyage aboard HMS Beagle inaugurated a new era in the history of biology. However, Darwin was one of …
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Bloomsbury and Harry Potter
Speaker - Nigel Newton CHIEF EXECUTIVE, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, LONDON The Harry Potter books have been translated into some 75 languages and have sold more …