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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 Sep 2016 |
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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 |
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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 Apr 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 Mar 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 Oct 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 Oct 2013 |
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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 |