Drawing on Sir Nicholas Browne's recently declassified internal report on British policy towards Iran in the run-up to the Islamic Revolution of 1979, as well as his own 37 years of diplomatic experience, Sir Geoffrey will argue that 'patient diplomacy' should be at the heart of British foreign policy.
Dr Adam Talib is an Associate Professor at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University. His research demonstrates how the methods, concerns, and reading practices of comparative literature can illuminate the cultural lives of societies that were neither structured by the nation-state nor mediated by European languages. By combining the perspective and…
Dr Foteini Spingou is a cultural historian at the University of Edinburgh working on the broad topics of Memory, Collection, Beauty, and Tradition and Empire. Her expertise lies in the relation of art and literature between the eleventh and fourteenth century Byzantium. She has also worked on late antique Egyptian wall-hangings and I'm an expert…
