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When you think of England, what do you think of first? Are you familiar with the terrain you're treading with the English language, or have you only seen the tourist attractions along well-trodden paths?
Learn more about England's history, human and cultural makeup and you will realize how intertwined the English language and English culture are. Over the course of ten afternoons, you will have the opportunity to gain new perspectives on England through short lectures and open dialogue with your instructor.
The Culture Talks take place at regular intervals at the Cambridge Institut in Munich and are led by Philip Moore, the founder of the Cambridge Institut. The next thematic series is in preparation and will be published soon. Contact us for more information.
Past thematic series have been devoted to diverse aspects of English culture, a selection of which you find below.
The next cultural talk will take place on Friday, July 26, 2024 from 16:00 to 17:00 pm at the Cambridge Institut in Munich. The talk is titled, ‘The Last Edwardian at No. 10….An Impression of Harold Macmillan.’ Harold Macmillan became British Prime Minister in 1956, in the dramatic aftermath of the Suez crisis, which doomed his predecessor, Anthony Eden. Macmillan’s seven years in office was a period of economic prosperity, earning him the title of ‘Supermac’, which at last put an end to the years of post-war austerity in Britain.
The topic dovetails very well with the theme of next year’s English literature and translation course ‘The Aftermath of War…and Beyond.’ The cultural talk is free of charge. Come along and gain an insight into Britain's post-war history. To confirm your attendance, just send us a short email at info@cambridgeinstitut.de, call us on 089 221115 or use the contact button on our webpage.
The cultural talks, led by Philip Moore, founder of the Cambridge Institut, delve into the lives of the authors behind our selected books for the literature course 2023/2024. The novels chosen for this course, explore the two decades after the First World War – the 1920s and 1930s, an era characterised by domesticity, where one's home was one's castle, and one's small garden was superior to any foreign field. All of the novels are published by Persephone Books - unique in that it reprints neglected fiction and non-fiction, mostly by women writers and mostly dating from the mid-twentieth century.
For a few years in the 1960s London was the world capital of cool.
This cultural talk describes London's change from a gloomy, grey post-war capital into a shining centre of style. A transformation that was mainly due to two factors: youth and money. As Michael Caine described it: 'It was rather like being in a dancing school full of Fred Astaires'.
We shall be talking about the lives and times of women who were, in the words of Virginia Woolf's by nature explorers, revolutionists, reformers. But our surroundings were at least fifty years behind the times. They were women living restricted lives in a man's world. Women who had the audacity to defy propriety. And by doing so, they were, as often as not, deemed 'mad'.
If you love London, go, on your next visit, to a district in the East End, near Brick Lane and Liverpool Street, called Spitalfields. Its streets have witnessed waves of immigration, great prosperity and dreadful poverty. The shadow of Jack the Ripper crossed its courts and alleys. Here, in one neighbourhood, are two thousand years of English history. But go there soon - the commercial towers are spreading from the City of London, encroaching upon the historic core of Spitalfields.