Desirability and domination: Greek sculpture and the modern male body - Audio
This lecture will discuss Greek sculptures and some of the ways in which their ideal representations of the male body have shaped the twentieth centur...
Lunch Hour Lectures on Tour - 2011 - Audio
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During 4 Thursdays in June 2011, UCL’s free, public, Lunch Hour Lectures will be uprooted from their usual residence at UCL to go on tour to The British Museum. This summer series of bite-sized Lunch Hour Lectures, featuring introductions by British Museum curators, will discuss 4 topics in bite sized chunks: what archaeology can tell us about climate change; where we are with slowing the spread of HIV; how Greek sculpture has shaped the modern male body; and how we detect forgeries in the art world.
Science meets art: investigating pigments in art and archaeology - Audio
Professor Robin Clark has used pigment analysis to reveal the secrets of the Lindisfarne Gospels, Gutenberg Bibles, Greek icons, forged papyri and the...
30 years and still counting: slowing the spread of HIV in a complex world - Audio
Nearly 30 years on from the first description of AIDS, there are now over 33 million people estimated to be infected with HIV worldwide. Thanks to new...
A climate of fear: what the past tells us about human responses to climate change - Audio
Linking in with World Environment Day (5 June), archaeologist Joe Flatman will use a series of objects from the British Museum to explore what the pas...