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 |
Law and society
![]() | A Self-Administered Poison: The System and Functions of Soviet Censorship |
Sociolinguistics
![]() | Le Partage de la Parole |
François Villon (c.1431-63), French poet
![]() | L’écriture testamentaire à la fin du Moyen Age: Identité, dispersion, trace |
Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), French artist
![]() | History Painting and Narrative: Delacroix’s ‘Moments’ |
Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French novelist
![]() | Proust: Questions d’identité |
Jean-Luc Godard (1930-), French/Swiss director
![]() | Forming Couples: Godard’s Contempt |








