Speaker - Philip Waller OXFORD In ‘Light Reading’, Philip Waller will consider how various major figures, including Prime Ministers and Presidents, have …
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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.
Australia and the Non-Acceptance of Refugees
Speaker - Rhonda Evans GOVERNMENT By using a combination of boat turn-backs, offshore detention and processing, and a refusal to ever accept refugees who have …
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Castro’s Challenge to Britain and the United States
Speaker - Jonathan Brown When Fidel Castro formed an alliance with the Soviet Union in 1962, it sparked the Cuban missile crisis and became a defining incident …
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