Spring 2012
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- What has Facebook done to us?
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- The triumph of Human Rights: dream or nightmare?
- The lure of the Kremlin: the court of Ivan the Terrible and global networks in the 16th century
- Cutting to cure cancer the 'the limits set by nature'
- The mystery of Master Humphrey: one of Dickens's most enigmatic characters
- John Bull vs Stinkomalee: Tory opposition in the early days of the University of London (now UCL)
- The metaphysics of concrete
- Genetic testing for risk of heart disease: fact or fiction?
- From Euclid to modern geometry: do the angles of a triangle really add up to 180?
- The Great American Novel: how and why?
- Patents stop people doing things. So why are they a good thing?
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- The search for genius and Einstein's brain
- 3D imaging: nanotechnology and the quest for better medical sensors
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The lure of the Kremlin: the court of Ivan the Terrible and global networks in the 16th century
13 February 2012
Tuesday 31 January 2012
Dr Sergei Bogatyrev (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies)
In the sixteenth century, the rise of Muscovy was accompanied by military aggression and the growing influence of the Russian Orthodox Church. As a result of military conflicts and cultural differences, Westerners began to see Russia as a barbarian kingdom, whose rulers kept it locked away from the outside world. However, this lecture will demonstrate that the court of Ivan the Terrible (1530-1584) and other tsars was actually a focus point of exchange in technology, commodities and ideas with both the East and the West, and that Muscovite regalia, court rituals and illuminated manuscripts were in fact a result of intensive global interactions.
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