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| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 1 | Creative Commons | 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 | 22 May 2018 |
| 2 | Creative Commons | 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 | 22 May 2018 |
| 3 | Creative Commons | 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 | 22 May 2018 |
| 4 | Creative Commons | 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 | 22 May 2018 |
| 5 | Creative Commons | 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 Nov 2016 |
| 6 | 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 Sep 2016 | |
| 7 | Creative Commons | 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 | 19 Feb 2016 |
| 8 | 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 | |
| 9 | 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 | |
| 10 | 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 | |
| 11 | 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 Apr 2015 | |
| 12 | Kafka's Cognitive Realism | An interdisciplinary discussion of Dr Emily Troscianko's book | Emily Troscianko, Sue Blackmore, Ritchie Robertson, James Carney | 26 Mar 2014 | |
| 13 | 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 Oct 2013 | |
| 14 | 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 Oct 2013 | |
| 15 | Creative Commons | 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 |