Special Lecture Series offers a selection of outstanding lectures by distinguished lecturers from across the disciplines on a variety of Humanities subjects. The series has now been discontinued, but these are important texts and we aim to keep them in print for as long as practicable.

Gender and sexuality

Le Partage de la Parole
Luce Irigaray
Special Lecture Series 4


Law and society

A Self-Administered Poison: The System and Functions of Soviet Censorship
Arlen Blyum
Special Lecture Series 5


Sociolinguistics

Le Partage de la Parole
Luce Irigaray
Special Lecture Series 4


François Villon (c.1431-63), French poet

L’écriture testamentaire à la fin du Moyen Age: Identité, dispersion, trace
Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
Special Lecture Series 3


Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), French artist

History Painting and Narrative: Delacroix’s ‘Moments’
Peter Brooks
Special Lecture Series 2


Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French novelist

Proust: Questions d’identité
Julia Kristeva
Special Lecture Series 1


Jean-Luc Godard (1930-), French/Swiss director

Forming Couples: Godard’s Contempt
Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit
Special Lecture Series 6