Seminar Series
Heroes, Heroines and Villains
1996-1997
- 'You don't have to be a weather man to know which way the wind blows' : the urban cowboy.
- Mike Sutton
- 'Le Corbusier - villain or hero'?
- Tom Faulkner
- 'Mikoian the ice cream man and the heroines of the Socialist Food Industry'.
- Susie Reid
- Thinking the City: Advertising Culture and Carlylian Vision in Ford Madox Brown's 'Work'.
- Colin Trodd
- Adolf Loos: for and against Vienna
- Janet Stewart
- 'Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitman?': British perceptions of German sports stars as heroes and villains.
- David Head

Sex in the City
1995-1996
- Patricians and Partners in Venice
- Alex Cowan
- Swinging Chicks in Sixties London
- Hilary Moreton
- Urban Perversion. Fantasy and the pornographic city in ' Highlander' (1986)
- Paul Barlow
- "Gross Material Facts" : Sexuality and the City in Walter Sickert's Camden Town Paintings
- David Peters Corbett
- Penetration Fails
- Diane Morgan
- Viennese Lust
- Jill Lewis
- Lustmord in Munich
- Tony McElligott
- Sexuality and the City :Berlin 1905-1908
- Dorothy Rowe

Talk of the Town: The Modern European City and its Discourses
1994-1995
- Idle Speech: The Discourse of Scurrility in Early Modern England
- Dermot Cavanagh
- Infectious Enthusiasms: Influence, Contagion and the Experience of Rome
- Richard Wrigley
- Cris de la Ville
- David Gray
- Political Networks in Provincial France
- Maire Cross
- Documenting the City: Culture and Category in Imperial Vienna
- Tim Kirk
- The Power of Rumour in Early Modern French Cities
- Penny Roberts
- Symphonies and the City: Vertov, Ruttman, and the Representation of Urban Modernity in Modern British Writing
- Keith Williams
- Gruss aus Wien
- Jill Steward
- The Cafe and the Street: City Life in Modern German Art
- Malcolm Gee
