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These four talks explore the lives and careers for four charismatic and gifted women who made a huge impact in their time and who have continued to fascinate ever since. Alma Mahler, Sarah Bernhardt, Misia Sert and Maria Callas are the names by which they became known but to which, other than Bernhardt, they were not born. All four were feted for their beauty – indeed judged on their looks – it could be said that Bernhardt and Callas became beautiful through willpower and force of personality. Alma and Misia weaponised their sex appeal in ways which today may well seem at odds. But by doing so they were able to succeed within the framework of what was very much still a man’s world.
The personal lives of all four have been the subject of intense speculation that has sometimes threatened to eclipse their achievements. Each in her own way was creative, but perhaps more importantly they all inspired creativity in others, leaving a rich legacy of portraits and enough musical masterpieces to fill a whole series of concerts. The talks will utilise a variety of memoirs, images, recordings and even some personal documents from the author’s collection.
They take place every Tuesday from 12 August to 2 September 2025 at 4.30pm (London) and, including Q&A, will last just under an hour. They are available for viewing for eight weeks after the last episode is streamed ( until 28th October 2025).
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            [subtitle] => A series of online talks by Patrick Bade
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These five talks explore the significant impact of Russian artists in Paris during the early 20th century, and the influence of French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists on Russian artists in turn. We will examine the artistic contributions, social networks, cultural identity and historical context of these migrations.
In the period 1900 to 1930, Paris attracted artists from all over the world becoming a hub of creative activity, referred to as the ‘School of Paris’. Many Russian émigrés at one time lived and studied in the city and became central figures in the development of European modern art. They included Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Natalia Goncharova and Chaïm Soutine. Back in Russia, others readily absorbed the works of Cézanne, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso and Le Fauconnier, brought to Moscow by the merchant collectors Ivan Morozov and Sergei Shchukin.
The talks take place every Wednesday from 10th September to 8th October 2025 at 4.30pm (London) and, including Q&A, will last just under an hour. They are available for viewing for eight weeks after the last episode is streamed (3rd December 2025).
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            [subtitle] => five online talks by Dr Natalia Murray
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The concept of an intellectual woman has long been riddled with ambiguities. During the Enlightenment period, outstanding women were often identified with Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and war. She was portrayed as a tall, athletic virgin clad in armour, a wise owl perched on her military helmet: although explicitly female, she displayed many of the attributes more commonly associated with men. Especially in science, such views have been slow to fade, and even today female scientists are sometimes judged by their gender and their appearance rather than their abilities.
Women have largely been excluded from conventional versions of science’s history, but they often played important roles. This series features examples drawn from the last quarter of a millennium to illustrate how some women successfully negotiated the obstacles confronting them. Through examining the contextualised lives and careers of particular individuals, these five talks – which stand independently but are inter-related – explore the concealed prejudices and unstated assumptions that still pervade modern society.
They take place every Thursday from 8 October to 6 November 2025 at 4.30pm (London) and, including Q&A, will last just under an hour. They are available for viewing for eight weeks after the last episode is streamed (until 1 January 2026).
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