Lucy Beckett’s A Postcard from the Volcano: A Novel of Pre-War Germany (2009) is a great intellectual novel situated in a time of massive of geopolitical changes. Set in what was then Germany and is now Poland (mostly) between 1914 and 1939, young European intellectuals and artists—Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, some religious, some atheist, friends and sometimes...

These online panel discussions will take place at 4pm on a Wednesday once a month, but the topics are decided according to world events and announced close to the date of the month’s panel. Recordings are available on YouTube via the Global Georgetown channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalGeorgetown/videos. To register and for more details about this series see:...

In this online talk Professor Kate Crosby, University of Oxford, will discuss U Dhammaloka, the forgotten Irish Buddhist who faced down the British Empire. Professor Michael Scott will chair. This event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. It is part of the  series, Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference.  Online. Free and...