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Department for Continuing Education Open Day 2013

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    Britain's economic problems and prospects
    At the time of the 2008 global credit crunch, I participated in Oxford's online debate on whether the economic crisis sounded the death knell for laissez faire capitalism. I argued it did, not because...
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    • 12 years ago
    46:03
    Party games: coalition government in British politics
    This session will look at the history of coalition government in British politics over the past 200 years and discuss some of the constitutional implications of the current Conservative-Liberal Democr...
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    • 12 years ago
    43:51
    Philosophy in 45 minutes!
    Philosophy deals with the BIG questions of life: does God exist? How should we live? What is truth? What are numbers and do we need them? Does space come to an end or is it infinite? NO SOUND FOR FIRS...
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    • 12 years ago
    43:43
    Fitzgerald beyond Gatsby
    With the recent resurgence in interest in F. Scott Fitzgerald following Baz Luhrmann's imaginative film adaptation of Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby have come the inevitable cliches of the '...
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    • 12 years ago
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    Gustav Klimt and secessionist Vienna
    Vienna around 1900 witnessed a vital and anxious surge in art, design, literature and music. This creativity also inspired psychological investigations into the inner self and dreams, most famously by...
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    • 12 years ago
    43:37
    Surprises - for you and for mathematics
    In 1900, pure mathematics had the smug air of a finished product. We thought we knew what it was and we thought we knew how it was done. Then Bertrand Russell came along with an analysis that has the ...
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    • 12 years ago
    42:57
    International education: the transformative effect of student migration
    In this short lecture we will consider what the internationalisation of higher education means, and the global implications of international mobility - on the students, on their 'receiving' countries ...
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    • 12 years ago
    48:11
    Why music matters in your life
    Imagine a world without music. No music on the radio, no concerts, no musical instruments. No background music in films and television. No music at our weddings, funerals, religious worship or sportin...
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    • 12 years ago
    40:02
    Where's all the wildlife? Flooding and the importance of landscape conservation
    The Oxfordshire floods of 2007, 2008 and 2012 caused enormous disruption to homes, agriculture and local businesses, but what were the consequences for wildlife? This presentation will unravel some of...
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    • 12 years ago
    48:56
    What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls?
    Some film and tv adaptations of Jane Austen's novels might give the impression that the stories are little more than Mills and Boon-type romances in empire-line frocks. This talk will introduce fictio...
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    • 12 years ago
    42:02
    Too many words? An irreverent guide to screenwriting
    Aristotle's 'Poetics' is regarded as the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory. How much notice do Goldman, Godard, Bertolucci or indeed Tarantino pay to his classic tenets of drama? Is a screenp...
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    • 12 years ago
    47:59
    Who needs migrant workers? Controversies in international labour migration
    The regulation of labour immigration is among the most important and controversial public policy issues in high-income countries. How many migrant workers should be admitted, how should they be select...
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    • 12 years ago
    34:00
    A history of England in five and a half maps
    There is a story behind every map. Generation after generation, we have imprinted ourselves on the land we live upon. Our depictions of that land, in maps, have recorded social attitudes and social ch...
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    • 12 years ago
    44:11
    Spotlight on Archaeology
    Find out about how archaeologists uncover the past using a range of techniques, including excavation, survey and scientific analysis. We will also have the opportunity to discuss the programme of arch...
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    • 12 years ago
    47:00
    Anniversaries, feasts and commemoration in the Middle Ages
    Ritual celebrations were at the heart of life in medieval communities. The passage of time was articulated by the cycle of the seasons, the exigencies of husbandry and of trade, all inextricably bound...
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    • 12 years ago
    58:10
    Speaking stories: the oral roots of poetry
    We'll be looking at Beowulf and the epic as a way of passing on experience and history. See your own life as an epic! Where would you start? What would you leave out? Surprise yourself - and us!...
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    • 12 years ago
    46:05
    The art of war: The Hundred Years' War in twenty objects
    This lecture will examine one of the longest wars in history, fought between England and France from 1337 to 1453 by scrutinising twenty objects. The series of bloody battles, including famous events ...
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    • 12 years ago
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