Everything you wanted to know about western civilisation but were afraid to ask. We aim to provide compelling talks on the key works of the Western canon, to fill in our missing knowledge on subjects that might once have been passed down as the foundation of a common culture. This podcast is for recordings of our live talks, see our eventbrite page or twitter for future ones.
Canon Club
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Everything you wanted to know about western civilisation but were afraid to ask. We aim to provide compelling talks on the key works of the Western canon, to fill in our missing knowledge on subjects that might once have been passed down as the foundation of a common culture. This podcast is for recordings of our live talks, see our eventbrite page or twitter for future ones.
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January 20, 2026
Canon Club (Live) VI — Goethe, Germany and the Birth of Modernity — with Sebastian Milbank
<p>Our sixth event saw Sebastian Milbank talk about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a defining figure of the proto-Romantic movement Sturm und Drang.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Sebastian explains:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Goethe is perhaps the most paradoxical figure in Western history. A reactionary and a revolutionary, a romantic and a classicist, at once the symbol of German nationhood and of multicultural cosmopolitanism. Goethe, a restless and Protean figure, can be considered the first of the moderns.Goethe’s Germany was a culture without a state, intellectually and culturally tied to modernising bourgeois societies in France and Britain, yet still frozen in the material and political conditions that reigned at the time of the Peace of Westphalia. Modernity, for Germany, was in certain often unacknowledged ways violently traumatic, as religious orthodoxy and the old political order shattered under the pressure of outside forces and ideas.</p><p><br /></p><p>This talk will look at Goethe as a lens for understanding the significance of Germany’s relationship to the birth of modernity, and our current postmodern context. Ranging widely from the intensely modern psychological portraits of Elective Affinities, the expressionistic individualism of Young Werther, the Renaissance futurism of Faust and all the way to the cosmopolitan universalism of the East-West Divan, it will show just how many familiar threads lead back to Jena and Weimar."</p><p><br /></p><p>Sebastian Milbank is a writer, editor and researcher, who works across political policy, journalism and academia. A philosopher and theologian by background, he has written extensively about culture and political theory, and is the author of two forthcoming books, on Christianity and paradox, and on Christianity and citizenship in the ancient world.</p>
September 27, 2025
Canon Club (Live) V — Euripides and the Experience of the Divine — with Bijan Omrani
<p>Our fifth event saw Dr Bijan Omrani speak about one of classical Greece’s best-known and most significant playwrights, Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC).</p><p>In Bijan’s own words:</p><p>"Euripides was one of the great tragedians of classical Athens. Although wildly popular in his lifetime, his work has troubled and confused audiences both ancient and modern. Aristotle said of him that he was the most tragic of poets, but Nietzsche that he, along with Socrates, caused the very extinction of the genre.</p><p>He has variously been hailed as a feminist and excoriated as a hater of women. Some have claimed him an anti-war ironist who corroded the moral fabric of Athenian life, whilst others insist that he was a staunch upholder of traditional values. Whilst Sophocles is claimed to have said that Euripides drew his characters as true to life, ‘not as they ought to be, but as they are,’ and Goethe asked ‘Have any of the nations of the world since his time produced one dramatist who was worthy to hand him his slippers,’ this has not held back some modern critics from claiming that his plays are stuffed full of ‘self-indulgent digression for the sake of rhetorical display.’</p><p>His treatment of the gods has caused the most perplexity. Many have agreed with the Victorian critic, Arthur Verrall, that he was ‘Euripides the Rationalist’, the philosopher of the stage, an early proponent of atheism, whose plays made a mockery of the gods. Others insist that he was a pious defender of the gods and received religious values. For me, regardless of his mastery of poetry and drama, and whatever might be made of his treatment of politics or gender, his grappling with the idea of the divine is the most significant and compelling part of Euripides’ legacy. With particular reference to one play, The Bacchae, (currently running at the National Theatre), I shall explore Euripides’ struggle with the idea of the gods and the holy, and why his work and thought in this field still matters."</p><p>Bijan Omrani’s doctoral research was on Euripides and early philosophy. He is the author of various books on cultural and religious history, most recently God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England.</p>
July 10, 2025
Canon Club (Live) IV — Palladio: Building the Renaissance — with Dr Alexander Lee
<p>For our fourth event we invited Dr Alexander Lee to speak about the sixteenth-century Italian architect Andrea Palladio. In Alex's own words:"Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) is one of the most influential and widely imitated architects in history. Working amidst the ferment of late Renaissance Italy, he created a style which combined classical authority, calm, and convenience – and which placed harmony above all else. Such acclaim did it enjoy that, before long, his work was being emulated, not just throughout Europe, but around the world. Its influence can be felt in Bernini’s design for St. Peter’s Square in Rome; in Inigo Jones’ Banqueting House in London; in Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monticello – and in countless others besides.But who was Palladio? How did a provincial miller’s son rise to become an architect of such outstanding qualities? What was ‘new’ about his style? And why did it have such a lasting impact? Retracing his journey from humble stonemason to de facto architect of the Venetian Republic (and beyond), this talk will discuss how Palladio was, above all, a man rooted in his times. It will explore how his style was shaped by Roman and Renaissance models; by the tastes and interests of a small group of humanists; and by the shifting currents of Venetian politics and society."A specialist in the cultural and political history of the Renaissance in Italy, Alex’s current research into Palladio’s life and work follows several important books on the Italian Renaissance, including a biography of Machiavelli which was described by The Sunday Times as the ‘definitive’ account of the political thinker. Alex's ongoing research into Palladio promises to be just as significant for our understanding of the sixteenth century and the afterlives of Palladio’s work in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.You can find Alex’s full academic profile <a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/alexanderlee/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</p>
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