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Department for Continuing Education Open Day 2012

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    The Num8er My5teries
    Professor Marcus du Sautoy - mathematician, footballer and amateur musician - shows how mathematicians have contributed to our understanding of the world around us for millennia. We are all taught how...
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    Economics: which way now?
    Dr Martin Ruhs introduces the Department's expanding portfolio of economics courses, in the context of the on-going debate about where economics is headed, starting with the world economic downturn. W...
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    • 13 years ago
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    Henry II and the Twelfth-Century World
    Dr Elizabeth Gemmill introduces the most remarkable monarch, Henry II, whose dominions stretched from the south west of France to the north of Britain. His achievements have lasted until our own times...
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    • 13 years ago
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    W.B. Yeats and the Ghost Club
    Dr Tara Stubbs uses exciting new research findings to discuss the close links between Yeats's attendances at the Ghost Club during the 1910s-1920s, his (sometimes amusing) spiritualist experiments, an...
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    • 13 years ago
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    Boulevards, Brushwork and Bugattis : Modern Art and Design in Paris
    In the nineteenth-century Paris was transformed into an alluring spectacle of cafés, department stores and exhibitions. Dr Claire O'Mahony looks at the inspiration of the modern city of light from Imp...
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    • 13 years ago
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    Philosophy in 45 minutes!
    Marianne Talbot takes participants on a romp through the nature of philosophy for complete beginners discussing some of the BIG questions of life: does God exist? How should we live? What is truth? Do...
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    • 13 years ago
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    From global credit-crunch to Eurocrisis and double-dip recession: whatever next?
    The 25 years up to the 2007-8 global credit crunch were ones of privatisation, deregulation, financialisation and, in the UK, demutualisation. Professor Jonathan Michie will discuss the causes and con...
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    Shedding light on the dark ages
    The Dark Ages are traditionally seen as nasty, brutish and short - a cultural and intellectual waste land, with virtually nothing worthy of art historical consideration. But Janina argues this is far ...
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