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British Studies Lecture Series

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.

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After Empire: Britain, the United States, and the...

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2019/05/28

Speaker – Mark Gasiorowski This lecture will begin with the historic Britain-Iran connection: ‘If you lift up Khomeini’s beard, you will find “MADE IN BRITAIN” stamped on his chin.’ After Iran’s 1978-1979 revolution, US and British officials sought a cooperative, mutually-beneficial relationship with the country’s new leaders. Contrary to what many believed, the CIA did […]

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Countess Noël, Heroine of the Titanic

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2019/05/28

Speaker – Joanna Hitchcock Among the 1,300 passengers aboard the Titanic when she steamed out of Southampton Harbor in April 1912 was Noël, Countess of Rothes. She was traveling to the States to join her husband. This account of Noël’s experiences on the ship, in the lifeboat, and aboard the rescue ship is told through […]

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A UT Ethics Center? The Oxford Ethics Centre in...

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2019/05/28

Speakers – Virginia Brown (Dell Medical School), Robert Prentice (McCombs Business School) Stephen Sonnenberg, M.D. (Plan II), Paul Woodruff (Philosophy) The Oxford Ethics Centre was established in 2003 with the aim of rational reflection on personal and professional ethics: ‘The vision is Socratic, not missionary’. The Oxford Centre promotes discussion on ‘climate change, terrorism, global […]

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How the British Left Palestine

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2019/05/28

Speaker – Bernard Wasserstein At the end of its three-decades-long mandate in 1948, Britain withdrew its administration and 100,000-strong armed forces from Palestine. But unlike its departure from any other dependent territory, it did not hand over to any successor government. Instead it left Arabs and Jews to fight for possession of the Holy Land. […]

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Worldwide Consequences of American Expansion in 1898

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2019/05/28

Speaker – Karl Rove Karl Rove’s recent book, The Triumph of William McKinley, deals with the election of 1896 and its consequences. His lecture will expand on the results of the 1898 war with Spain: the annexation of the Philippines and Hawaii in the Pacific and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean as well as Cuba […]

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Brexit: An Historical Romance

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2019/04/26

Speaker – Geoffrey Wheatcroft The debate on Britain’s departure from the European Union, before the referendum and ever since, has invoked the past: ‘Our Island Story’ and a thousand years of history. The Leavers, or Brexiteers, are especially prone to talking of ‘vassalage’ and medieval history, of the 1533 Act in Restraint of Appeals, of the […]

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Samuel Beckett: Joycean and Surreal?

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2019/04/19

Speaker – Alan Friedman Scholars tend to label Samuel Beckett’s early career negatively as either his “Joyce years” or his “Surrealist period,” maintaining that Joyce’s writings had a detrimental effect on Beckett’s initial works and that Surrealism was only a minor influence. But both were critical models for Beckett. He mined his powerful predecessors for […]

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Heroes of the Intellect: Unbelief and Enlightenment...

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2019/04/15

Speaker – James Dee Religious beliefs have been questioned and opposed for centuries, from the pre-Socratics of ancient Hellas to the rise of science and the humanistic values of the Enlightenment—often said to be in decline today. This talk will summarize the ideas of a surprisingly large group of Hellenic skeptics and atheists, briefly survey […]

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America’s Global Empire

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2019/04/06

Speaker – Tony Hopkins Challenging conventional accounts of the place of the United States in the international order during the last three centuries, Tony Hopkins will argue that the United States was part of a British imperial order throughout this period. After 1898, it ruled a now forgotten empire in the Pacific and Caribbean. It […]

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Brexit’s Past: Withdrawals from the Empire

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2019/04/05

Speaker – Harshan Kumarasingham As the world watches Britain’s slow departure from the European Union, it can be constructive to remember the multiple occasions, especially since 1947, when Britain pulled out of its imperial possessions, often in haste and turmoil. Decolonization changed the nature of the Commonwealth, the seventy-year-old organization that replaced the empire as […]

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William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement in...

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2019/03/01

Speaker – Peter Stansky William Morris was a poet and artist as well as the foremost figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. He succeeded in reviving some of the techniques of handmade production that machines were replacing. His iconic patterns for fabrics and wallpaper are instantly recognizable, and the baroquely beautiful productions of his […]

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She Moves in Mysterious Ways: Jane Eyre’s Journeys

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2019/02/22

Speaker – John Farrell It is sometimes overlooked that Jane Eyre is a classic Bildungsroman that narrates Jane’s formative years and spiritual education. Even more deliberately, it is a journey narrative. But Jane’s travels follow two incompatible paths. Both paths are narratively constructed as pilgrimages. Charlotte Brontë’s task in the novel—and Jane’s as well—is to make these pilgrimages converge. Their convergence […]

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Britain as a Superpower, 1945-1957

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2019/02/15

Speaker – Derek Leebaert The British Empire remained a superpower at least until 1957. But the re-elected Eisenhower administration then proclaimed ‘a declaration ofindependence’ from British authority. The years in between are freighted withmyths: Britain’s ‘withdrawal from the Mediterranean’; the influence of GeorgeKennan’s view of Britain within the U.S. government; and Britain and thebeginning of […]

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Oxford’s Battle for the Soul of Classics

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2018/11/30

Speaker – Paul Woodruff The Irish poet E. R. Dodds (1893–1979) was expelled as a student from Oxford in 1916 for protesting the English reaction to the Easter Rising. As a mature scholar, he transformed classical scholarship with his brilliant book The Greeks and the Irrational. The young poets W.H. Auden and Louis MacNeice flourished […]

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Cyprus and World War II: A Turning Point in the War...

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2018/11/30

Speaker – George Kelling The British acquired Cyprus for strategic reasons in 1888, and the island has provided a valuable strategic base up to this day. During World War II, Cyprus faced the danger of a German invasion. The loyalty of the Greek population on the island could not be taken for granted. According to […]

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Alan Turing: Genius, Patriot, Victim

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2018/11/28

Speaker – Robert D. King Founding Dean, College of Liberal Arts Alan Turing was the greatest mathematician Britain produced in the twentieth century. After a brilliant start at Cambridge he became the leading light in the British code-breaking center at Bletchley Park, and he was instrumental in breaking the German ENIGMA cipher by inventing and […]

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‘To Be or Not to Be’ Through the Ages

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2018/11/26

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 the way in which it has been performed on stage has changed drastically over the centuries. This session will review the history of those performances, from speculation about early […]

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Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle and the New Era in the...

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2018/11/21

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 many naturalists who gathered specimens and gained prestige on nineteenth-century British expeditions. This talk will explore the role that the British Empire played in the establishment of Darwin’s theory, […]

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Bloomsbury and Harry Potter

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2018/11/16

Speaker – Nigel Newton CHIEF EXECUTIVE, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, LONDON The Harry Potter books have been translated into some 75 languages and have sold more than 450 million copies. Nigel Newton owes the inspiration to publish the first in the series to his young daughter, who read the manuscript and insisted that it was ‘much better […]

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Seamus Heaney & the London Origins of the Belfast Group

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2018/11/02

Speaker – Stephen Enniss, HARRY RANSOM CENTER In the early 1960s a talented group of Northern Irish poets emerged in Belfast, including the future Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. In the decades since, a popular myth has taken root about the Northern Irish Renaissance with some commentators linking the emergence of a new generation of poets […]

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