I am not sure which way of presenting the lectures I will finally adopt. I am temporarily making available the 9 themes I have delivered to an international professional public at a seminar in Asia.  They are a mere reminder of the job done, as they lack live comments, but also (due to the format) the animations, indication of the 

sources of pictorial material and the expanded notes. As part of the experiment I am also attaching a lecture on the circumstances of European cultural identity, delivered a decade ago. If there would be any arguments to do so, I will add some other more recent lectures.