Inaugural Nick Browne Memorial Lecture – Patient Diplomacy with Sir Geoffrey Adams

Parliame Hall 66 South Street, St Andrews, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Narratives are for suckers: 21st-century cinema, Renaissance Self-Fashioning, and a Late Antique Revenge Tale

Old Seminar Room Medieval History, 71 South Street, St Andrews, United Kingdom

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…