| A Writer's War: 7. Storm of Steel |
A WRITER'S WAR looks at how those who fought and those at home in Britain, France, Germany and former colonies of the British and French Empires responded to the First World War, the horrors of the trenches and the advent of mechanised violence. |
Catriona Oliphant, Ritchie Robertson |
11 March, 2020 |
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| 5 What to do About Failure: Personal Actions. |
How to take action to change the role failure plays in your life. |
Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Rachel Bray, Barbara Gabrys, Adam Hart-Davis, Jaz Hill-Valler, Leanne Hodson, Dan Holloway, Ritchie Robertson, Emily Troscianko |
22 May, 2018 |
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| 4 What to do About Failure: Personal Attitudes. |
How to change your own attitudes to failure and success, and how failure relates to regret. |
Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys, Adam Hart-Davis, Jaz Hill-Valler, Leanne Hodson, Dan Holloway, Ritchie Robertson, Emily Troscianko, Chris Wickham |
22 May, 2018 |
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| 2 Failure and Other People |
Other people (or our idea of them) can induce feelings of failure and alleviate or transform them. |
Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys, Adam Hart-Davis, Jaz Hill-Valler, Leanne Hodson, Dan Holloway, Ritchie Robertson, Emily Troscianko, Chris Wickham |
22 May, 2018 |
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| 1 The Feeling of Failure |
What does failure feel like, and what happens when you sit with it? |
Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys, Adam Hart-Davis, Jaz Hill-Valler, Leanne Hodson, Dan Holloway, Ritchie Robertson, Emily Troscianko, Chris Wickham |
22 May, 2018 |
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| Writing the Enlightenment: Reflections on Work in Progress |
Professor Ritchie Robertson FBA, Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford, will speak on ‘Writing the Enlightenment: Reflections on Work in Progress’. |
Ritchie Robertson |
18 November, 2016 |
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| Les Liaisons dangereuses in 5x5 - Border Crossings |
How Laclos’ Les Liaisons dangereuses has been taken up by other cultures. |
Catriona Seth, Ritchie Robertson, Cláudia Pazos-Alonso |
29 September, 2016 |
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| The Future of German Studies |
Round Table on the occasion of the Inaugural Lecture of Henrike Lähnemann |
Hans-Jochen Schiewer, Wilhelm Krull, Dorothea Rüland, Katrin Kohl, Carsten Dose, Ritchie Robertson, Henrike Lähnemann |
19 February, 2016 |
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| Leviathan and the Air Pump: Highlights |
Historians of Science David Wootton and Michael Hunter review the controversial book 50 years on |
Ritchie Robertson, David Wootton, Michael Hunter |
28 May, 2015 |
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| Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment |
A discussion of Jim Reed's book |
Jim Reed, Joachim Whaley, Kevin Hilliard, Ritchie Robertson |
12 May, 2015 |
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| Leviathan and the Air Pump: Thirty Years On |
The historian of science David Wootton reviews the controversial dispute between Robert Boyle and Thomas Hobbes, followed by a reply from Boyle's biographer Michael Hunter |
Ritchie Robertson, David Wootton, Michael Hunter |
12 May, 2015 |
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| Cultural Frontier: Early 20th Century Vienna |
Re-visiting the time of Freud, Klimt and Schönberg, the Alumni Weekend panel surveys and analyse this unique period in Vienna’s history and in Western culture. |
Bethany Bell, Shearer West, Ritchie Robertson, Jonathan Cross |
28 April, 2015 |
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| Kafka's Cognitive Realism |
An interdisciplinary discussion of Dr Emily Troscianko's book |
Emily Troscianko, Sue Blackmore, Ritchie Robertson, James Carney |
26 March, 2014 |
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| Comparative Literature, Britain and Empire |
Joep Leerssen on Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Philologists: Comparative Literature between National Ethnicity and Global Empire. |
Joep Leerssen, Ritchie Robertson |
22 October, 2013 |
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| Literature in the World |
Ritchie Robertson on Weltliteratur before Goethe; Wen-Chin Ouyang's response; Sowon Park on world literature and the pan-Asian empire. |
Ritchie Robertson, Sowon Park |
22 October, 2013 |
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| Freemasons versus Jesuits: Conspiracy Theories in Enlightenment Germany |
Inaugural lecture by Ritchie Robertson as Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature. |
Ritchie Robertson |
29 May, 2012 |
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