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Freedom and Its Betrayal: 2 – Jean Jacques Rousseau (1952)

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Isaiah Berlin
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Berlin lectures on Rousseau's 'On the Social Contract' and discusses his anti-intellectualism, his idealism of Nature, and the worryingly authoritarian implications of his philosophy. Originally broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in 1952.
The only recording that survives from this six-lecture series, based on his Mary Flexner Lectures, 'Political Ideas in the Romantic Age', at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, in spring 1952; published in 'Freedom and Its Betrayal' (2002; 2nd ed. 2014)

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Isaiah Berlin
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Isaiah Berlin
Keywords
tyranny
french revolution
nature
freedom
authoritarianism
rousseau
Department: Wolfson College
Date Added: 14/04/2009
Duration: 00:52:02

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Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), founding President of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, is regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. He was famous as an extempore lecturer, and his inimitable speaking style is well illustrated in this series of podcasts.

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Defence of Women and Imagination in French Medieval Literature

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St Hilda's College Podcasts
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Interview with St Hilda's College Fellow and teacher of Medieval French Literature Dr Helen Swift about her book; Gender, Writing, and Performance: Men Defending Women in Late Medieval France as well as other developments in Medieval Literary Studies.

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St Hilda's College Podcasts
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Helen Swift
Landon Newby
Keywords
medieval studies
literature
medieval
medieval french
interdisciplinarity
intellectual history
modern languages
St Hilda's
gender
mediaeval
Department: St Hilda's College
Date Added: 07/04/2009
Duration: 00:26:20

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Sinful Cretans and Sacred Groves

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St Hilda's College Podcasts
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Landon Newby talks to Fellow and Teacher of Classics Dr Rebecca Armstrong about her work on the Greek myths of sexual deviancy of Pasiphae, Ariadne and Phaedra and their adaptations in Roman literature.

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St Hilda's College Podcasts
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Rebecca Armstrong
Landon Newby
Keywords
seneca
pasiphae
Euripides
cretan women
greek
roman
virgil
Crete
ariadne
phaedra
Department: St Hilda's College
Date Added: 06/04/2009
Duration: 00:27:48

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Data Protection, Freedom of Expression and the Media

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Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
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Antony White QC delivers a seminar on the laws of data protection, the media and freedom of expression and the right to privacy and how the laws are adapting in the light of the Naomi Campbell-Mirror Group and the Michael Douglas-OK magazine cases.

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Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
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Antony White
Keywords
socio-legal
privacy
media
naomi campbell
mirror group
paparazzi
Data Protection
Freedom of Expression
sociolegal
law
Oxpils
Department: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Date Added: 31/03/2009
Duration: 01:28:53

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Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Podcasts from the Centre of Socio-Legal Studies.

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G20: Solutions to Global Depression?

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The Credit Crunch and Global Recession
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In this fourth podcast Linda Yueh and Jonathan Michie discuss the G20 debates over co-ordinated fiscal expansion, global regulation, and the role of the IMF.
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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK (BY-NC-SA): England & Wales; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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The Credit Crunch and Global Recession
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Linda Yueh
Jonathan Michie
Keywords
financial crisis
financial reform
credit crunch
g20
IMF
recession
regulation
summit
crisis
depression
Department: Department for Continuing Education
Date Added: 31/03/2009
Duration: 00:26:39

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G20: Solutions to Global Depression?

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Kellogg College
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In this fourth podcast Linda Yueh and Jonathan Michie discuss the G20 debates over co-ordinated fiscal expansion, global regulation, and the role of the IMF.
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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK (BY-NC-SA): England & Wales; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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Kellogg College
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Linda Yueh
Jonathan Michie
Keywords
financial crisis
financial reform
credit crunch
g20
IMF
recession
regulation
summit
crisis
depression
Department: Kellogg College
Date Added: 31/03/2009
Duration: 00:26:39

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G20: Solutions to Global Depression?

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St Edmund Hall
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In this fourth podcast Linda Yueh and Jonathan Michie discuss the G20 debates over co-ordinated fiscal expansion, global regulation, and the role of the IMF.
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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK (BY-NC-SA): England & Wales; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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St Edmund Hall
People
Linda Yueh
Jonathan Michie
Keywords
financial crisis
financial reform
credit crunch
g20
IMF
recession
regulation
summit
crisis
depression
Department: St Edmund Hall
Date Added: 31/03/2009
Duration: 00:26:39

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Escaping North Korea

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Refugee Studies Centre
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This podcast was recorded at a talk and book signing by the author Mike Kim which was on Tuesday 10th March 2009 at St Antony's College, University of Oxford.
This podcast was recorded at a talk and book signing by the author Mike Kim which was on Tuesday 10th March 2009 at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. The talk was on the subject of 'Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country'.

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Refugee Studies Centre
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Mike Kim
Keywords
human rights
Korea
asia
North Korea
china
migration
forced migration
event
Department: Oxford Department of International Development
Date Added: 27/03/2009
Duration: 00:47:10

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