Department for Continuing Education
Oxford was one of the pioneers of the University Extension movement in the United Kingdom, and we still retain our original mission of making the scholarship of the University accessible to wider audiences.
In recent years the Department has grown very considerably, and now every year more than 15,000 people join one or more of our courses. Our students may be members of the public who wish to study a subject out of general interest or for personal satisfaction, members of professional groups or business organisations who wish to update their professional knowledge and skills, or participants in our increasingly large number of courses for international groups.
Most of our longer courses now lead to a University award or other forms of credit but the large number of short courses on offer may be taken by those who are less interested in obtaining further qualifications. Courses last from one day to several weeks; the residential courses are held in Oxford but other part-time courses are also held in a large number of other centres.
Series associated with Department for Continuing Education
2013 Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School
A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners
A Romp Through Philosophy for Complete Beginners
A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind
Alan Turing: Centenary Lectures
Anne McLaren Memorial Lectures
Bioethics: An Introduction
Clinical Trials in Resource-Limited Settings
Crime Fiction in Oxford
Critical Reasoning for Beginners
Critical Reasoning: A Romp Through the Foothills of Logic
Department for Continuing Education Award Ceremony 2014
Department for Continuing Education Open Day 2012
Department for Continuing Education Open Day 2013
Department for Continuing Education Open Day 2014
Department for Continuing Education's guest lectures
Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference
Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences at the Department for Continuing Education
Oxford Vaccinology Programme
Philosophy for Beginners
Research within the Department for Continuing Education
Revisiting the Rite: The Rite of Spring Centenary Conference
Rewley House Research Seminars
Science in Society
Social Sciences at the Department for Continuing Education
Study Programmes at Continuing Education
The Credit Crunch and Global Recession
The Emergent Multiverse
The God Delusion Weekend
The Nature of Causation
Translational Health Sciences
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| 1 | Using theory, evidence and person-based co-development to improve infection control during COVID-19 | Until a vaccine can prevent COVID-19, protective behaviours (such as social distancing, handwashing, cleaning/disinfecting) must be used to limit the spread. | Ben Ainsworth | 17 Dec 2021 | |
| 2 | Health Technology Assessment: Global alignment of systems, stakeholders and emerging trends | This talk will introduce and explore, the global mechanisms and initiatives that align process, strategy and methodology for Health Technology Assessment (HTA). | Neil Bertelsen | 17 Dec 2021 | |
| 3 | 'Why would anyone hesitate to help kids with cancer?' or: understanding competing perspectives on innovations | 'Homebound' students are unable to attend school for health-related reasons. To lessen their predicament, schools have begun experimenting with 'telepresence robots' for remote participation. | Lars Johannessen | 04 Nov 2021 | |
| 4 | Why be a Lunatic | Dr Maggie Adarin-Pocock delivers the 2019 Simonyi Lecture at the Oxford Playhouse | Maggie Adarin-Pocock | 19 Dec 2019 | |
| 5 | The future of the planet: life, growth and death in organisms, cities and companies. Geoffrey West | In this year’s Simonyi Lecture Geoffrey West discusses universal laws that govern everything from growth to mortality in plants, animals, cities and companies. | Geoffrey West | 09 May 2018 | |
| 6 | Philosophy and the Future of Warfare | Can there be such a thing as a ‘moral’ war? Can it ever be right to kill innocent people, even in self-defence? | Helen Frowe, Alex Leveringhaus, James Pattison, Marianne Talbot | 12 Dec 2016 | |
| 7 | Hope | What is Hope? This seminar explored what hope is and invited us to consider what hope means to people in different circumstances. | Peter Hinton, Carl Heneghan | 21 Nov 2016 | |
| 8 | Mathematics: Navigating Nature's Dark Labyrinth | The Inaugural Lecture of the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, 2009. | Marcus du Sautoy | 18 Nov 2016 | |
| 9 | Can robots be made creative enough to invent their own language? | Luc Steels delivers the 2012 Simonyi lecture and asks can machines be creative enough to invent their own language? | Luc Steels, Marcus du Sautoy | 18 Nov 2016 | |
| 10 | Why climate change action is difficult and how we can make a difference | 2014 Charles Simonyi Lecture with David MacKay. David discusses how the laws of physics constrain our energy options, and describes what happened when his reflections on energy arithmetic propelled him into a senior civil service role. | David MacKay | 18 Nov 2016 | |
| 11 | Putting the Higgs Boson in its Place | Professor Melissa Franklin talks about her experiences working towards the discovery of the Higgs Boson and her work today at the Large Hadron Collider | Melissa Franklin, Marcus du Sautoy | 18 Nov 2016 | |
| 12 | Autism and Minds Wired for Science | Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge, and Director of the Autism Research Centre, gives the 2016 Charles Simonyi Lecture on new research into autism. | Simon Baron-Cohen, Marcus du Sautoy | 18 Nov 2016 | |
| 13 | Creative Commons | Right Place, Right Time | Women composers and their creative communities. | Anna Beer | 30 Jun 2016 |
| 14 | Creative Commons | Time and Causation | Both time and causation seems to have the same 'direction’ . Can we explain this? | Marianne Talbot | 09 Jun 2016 |
| 15 | Creative Commons | Mental Causation | We do what we do because we believe what we believe. Or do we? How does mental causation work? | Marianne Talbot | 09 Jun 2016 |
| 16 | Creative Commons | The necessary connection analysis of causation | The idea that there are real metaphysical necessities relating cause and effect. | Marianne Talbot | 09 Jun 2016 |
| 17 | Creative Commons | The singularist theory of causation | The idea that causation is a relation science will one day discover. | Marianne Talbot | 09 Jun 2016 |
| 18 | Creative Commons | The regularity theory of causation | Hume's famously influential account of causation | Marianne Talbot | 09 Jun 2016 |
| 19 | Creative Commons | The counterfactual theory of causation | The idea that event c causes event e if and only if had c not had occurred e would not have occurred either. | Marianne Talbot | 09 Jun 2016 |
| 20 | Ordering Disorder: Mental Disorder, Brain Disorder and Therapeutic Intervention | This event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health. | George Graham | 11 Feb 2016 | |
| 21 | Karl Jaspers and the Ethics of Incomprehensibility | This event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health. | Giovanni Stanghellini | 11 Feb 2016 | |
| 22 | Creative Commons | Mental Health and Moral Virtue | This event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health. | Terence Irwin | 11 Feb 2016 |
| 23 | False Perceptions and False Beliefs: Understanding the Symptoms of Schizophrenia | This event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health. | Chris Frith | 14 Jan 2016 | |
| 24 | Impact | What is the impact we create? How is it measured, justified, used? Three speakers from a social, historical and professional background examine what impact means in different scenarios, both for academics themselves, and the public at large. | Gorgi Krlev, Matt Smart, Jonathan Healey | 03 Dec 2015 | |
| 25 | Award Ceremony 2014: speech by Professor Sally Mapstone | Professor Mapstone is Oxford University's Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education. Each year she welcomes and congratulates the award recipients and their guests, and acknowledges the commitment to study that brings this assembly together. | Sally Mapstone | 15 Apr 2015 | |
| 26 | Award Ceremony 2014: guest speaker Joanne Pearce | RSC actress Joanne Pearce is an alumna of our Foundation Certificate in History. In her speech for our award cermeony she urged award recipients to ‘mark the moment... go on, climb higher, do more.’ | Joanne Pearce | 15 Apr 2015 | |
| 27 | Award Ceremony 2014: Students interviewed | Four students speak of their experience on the Department's undergraduate award courses, and anticipate receiving their award in Oxford's famous and historical Sheldonian Theatre. | Various students | 15 Apr 2015 | |
| 28 | Back to Downton Abbey? Is the rise in inequality sustainable? | Political Economy - Professor Jonathan Michie | Jonathan Michie | 15 Apr 2015 | |
| 29 | Party games: coalitions in British politics | History - Professor Angus Hawkins | Angus Hawkins | 15 Apr 2015 | |
| 30 | Discoveries in Theology and Religion: Middle Eastern Christianity explored! | Theology and Religious Studies - Rev'd Canon Dr Robin Gibbons | Robin Gibbons | 15 Apr 2015 | |
| 31 | Art, Design and World War | History of Art - Dr Claire O'Mahony | Claire O'Mahony | 15 Apr 2015 | |
| 32 | Oxford University’s MSt in Creative Writing | Learn more about the Master's in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford | Clare Morgan, Alice Jolly, Jane Draycott, Frank Egerton | 03 Feb 2015 | |
| 33 | Creative Commons | The Arrow of Time | In the fourth lecture, Harvey Brown asks why real-world events always proceed in the direction of increasing entropy, even though the laws of physics don’t require it. | Harvey Brown | 07 Jan 2015 |
| 34 | Creative Commons | The Probability Puzzle | In the third lecture, David Wallace asks how we make sense of probability in the Many-Worlds theory. | David Wallace | 07 Jan 2015 |
| 35 | Creative Commons | The Life of Psi: More on the Superposition Principle | In the second lecture, Harvey Brown discusses in more depth the superposition principle of quantum mechanics. | Harvey Brown | 07 Jan 2015 |
| 36 | Creative Commons | The Plurality of Worlds | In this first lecture, David Wallace examines the justification for interpreting the superposition states as multiplicities. | David Wallace | 06 Jan 2015 |
| 37 | Creative Commons | Mapping Nijinsky’s Cross - Cultural Legacy: Min Tanaka’ s Le Sacré du Printemps (1987) | Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps is arguably the most influential score composed for dance in the last century. | Lucy Weir | 05 Dec 2014 |
| 38 | The Chosen One: Massine’s Choreographic Rite of Passage | Seven years after the succès de scandale of the Stravinsky-Nijinsky-Roerich ballet Le Sacre du printemps, Serge Diaghilev decided to revive the ballet with new choreography by his young protégé, Léonide Massine. | Lisa Fusillo | 05 Dec 2014 | |
| 39 | The Spanish Reception of The Rite of Spring : Ballet, Music, Fine Arts (1913-33) | This study analyses the reception of The Rite of Spring in the Spanish cultural networks. Although the ballet was only performed in 1913, three years before the first visit of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes to Spain, its influence became notorious among some | Idoia Murga Castro | 05 Dec 2014 | |
| 40 | D H Lawrence’s Rite | In a notable scene from Women in Love (1920), D. H. Lawrence draws attention to the popularity of Diaghilev’s enterprise as representative of the avant garde in the arts in contemporary Britain. | Sue Jones | 05 Dec 2014 | |
| 41 | Creative Commons | A Bardic Rite? Designing the Savoy Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream | For a few nights in March 1914 if contemplating buying a theatre ticket in London, there was a brief chance when one could have seen Nijinsky dance at the Palace Theatre one night and the next the new Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the | Claire O'Mahony | 05 Dec 2014 |
| 42 | Creative Commons | Divining the 1920s: Precious Body Image in Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1913 Ballets | This paper examines the ways in which dancers’ body image in Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1913 ballets The Rite of Spring and Jeux looked forward to 1920s developments in ballet and fashion. | Katerina Pantelides | 05 Dec 2014 |
| 43 | Creative Commons | Disruption in Continuity: The Use of Ornament in The Rite of Spring | Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography for the Rite of Spring was structured by movement patterns based on simple geometrical forms – such as circles, triangles, lines and angles – which his dancers incorporated with their bodies and limbs. | Alexander Schwan | 05 Dec 2014 |
| 44 | A Century of Rites : The Making of an Avant - Garde Tradition | A historiography of a century of productions of the Rite of Spring. | Lynn Garafola | 05 Dec 2014 | |
| 45 | Creative Commons | Prehistoric Ballets: L’Après Midi d’un Faune as precursor of The Rite of Spring | On the 29th of May 1912, exactly a year earlier than the premiere of The Rite of Spring, Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes had scandalized Parisian audiences with the first performance of another | Nicoletta Momigliano | 05 Dec 2014 |
| 46 | Creative Commons | Decorated Handkerchiefs: cotton, colours and conflict ‘in and about’ Northern Ireland | This paper examines a cotton handkerchief decorated by women republican prisoners Armagh Jail in 1976. It considers the power of cloth, its appropriation and circulation through in prisons of the conflict ‘in and about’ Northern Ireland. | Louise Purbrick | 05 Dec 2014 |
| 47 | Questions and Answers Session | Marianne answers questions from the audience about the four talks in this series. | Marianne Talbot | 11 Nov 2014 | |
| 48 | The Philosophy of Science | In the fourth and final lecture, we examine the notion of ‘objective fact’ on which scientific theories are built; what sort of fact is such that we can build a scientific theory on it? | Marianne Talbot | 11 Nov 2014 | |
| 49 | Epistemology and Metaphysics | In the third lecture we examine first the so-called “Gettier Problems” for the traditional account of knowledge, the arguments for saying that possible worlds exist and finally we ask whether there really are unactualised possibles. | Marianne Talbot | 11 Nov 2014 | |
| 50 | Moral and Political Philosophy | In the second lecture we examine first the famous ‘Wilt Chamberlain’ thought experiment that demonstrates a retention between freedom and equality, then arguments for and against two famous moral theories; deontology and utilitarianism. | Marianne Talbot | 11 Nov 2014 | |
| 51 | Logic and Argument: the Methodology of Philosophy | In this first lecture, using Descartes famous argument for the claim “I think therefore I am’, we examine how to identify and evaluate arguments. | Marianne Talbot | 11 Nov 2014 | |
| 52 | A Jewish Teenager in Hiding: Representations of Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank | Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl (1952) chronicles the two years that Anne, her family, and four other Jews spent in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. | Sarach Lichtman | 21 Oct 2014 | |
| 53 | Design for the Reconstruction: housing Exhibitions and the QT8 Model District at the ninth Triennale in Milan (1947) | The reconstruction in Italy is perceived as a call by architects who, after the fall of Fascism and the Civil War. The first postwar Triennale in 1947 is the test for the new design, architecture and urban planning in Italy. | Elena Dellapiana | 21 Oct 2014 | |
| 54 | Clothing Soldiers: Development of an organised system of production and supply of military clothing in England between 1645 and 1708 | This paper will set up and identify certain needs that a soldier's clothing of this period had to satisfy | Katherine Elliott | 21 Oct 2014 | |
| 55 | How Disabled Design Changed the History of Modernism. | This lecture explores disabled design as an alternative to canonical aesthetic and political histories of | David Serlin | 16 Oct 2014 | |
| 56 | Trapped in Shells: Mindset and Materiality in First World War Trench Art and Beyond | First World War Trench Art. | Nicholas Saunders | 16 Oct 2014 | |
| 57 | Designed to Kill: The Social Life of Weapons in Twentieth Century Britain | Weapon design and modern warfare. | Joanna Bourke | 16 Oct 2014 | |
| 58 | Creative Commons | Arthur Wragg: Pacifist Polemics in Black and White | Arthur Wragg | Damon Taylor | 09 Oct 2014 |
| 59 | Creative Commons | “Not for Glory, not for Gain!” The Czech Glass Spartakiad Figurine, 1955 | This paper looks at the glass figurines of Czech artist Miloslav Klinger, made to commemorate the 1955 Prague Spartakiad, as complex sites of memory, craft and political propaganda. | Rebecca Bell | 07 Oct 2014 |
| 60 | Creative Commons | “Design, Domesticity and Revolution: Transitioning the Cuban Ideal Home” | Through an examination of domestic advice and advertisements found in Cuban popular magazines, this paper explores the relationship between politics and popular media during the period 1950 to 1970. | Sara Desvernine-Reed | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 61 | Creative Commons | The Politics of Memory: Designing the Ganatantra Smarak (Republic Memorial), Kathmandu, Nepal | Examination of the design competition of Nepal's republic memorial. | Bryony Whitmarsh | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 62 | Creative Commons | War on Wheels | First World War vehicles as instruments of order and chaos. | Gregory Votolato | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 63 | Creative Commons | ‘Help to win the war’: an analysis of the typographic posters produced by the New Zealand Government 1914-1918 | This paper analyses typographic posters produced by the New Zealand Government in WWI to recruit men and money to the war effort. They chart the progress of recruitment strategies from voluntarism through to the contested years leading to conscription. | Patricia Thomas | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 64 | Creative Commons | ‘Public memory and everyday memorials: work of the Imperial War Graves Commission’ | The paper highlights tensions that appeared in the near routine collection of trophies for memorials and the design of war cemeteries between British imperial offices and those of former colonies, particularly Australia’s War Records Section. | William Taylor | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 65 | Creative Commons | Images of Women in a Changing Colonial Taiwanese Society during the Period of World War I | Propaganda: graphic design and print culture | Chu-Yu Sun | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 66 | Creative Commons | Funky Bunkers: The Post-Military Landscape as a Readymade Space and a Cultural Playgound | On adapted reuse of military establishments. | Per Strömberg | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 67 | Cultural Trauma: Kós, Kozma, and Hungarian Design in the First World War | By comparing the work and career trajectories of these two architect-designers, this paper explored the changes in taste, style and cultural meaning of the dominant trends in Hungarian interior design before and after World War 1. | Paul Stirton | 30 Sep 2014 | |
| 68 | Furniture in Portugal, 1940-1974: between tradition, authoritarianism and modernity | Portuguese design furniture (1940-1974) and the industrial policies of the New State's dictatorship. | Helena Maria Souto, Eduardo Cortês Real | 30 Sep 2014 | |
| 69 | Creative Commons | Authenticity and commemoration: an analysis of Otto Weidt Worshop for the Blind and the Jewish Museum in Berlin | This paper will analyse both spaces according to their scale, location in the city, authenticity, phenomenology and prosthetic memory, in order to determine whether design can enhance and protect our collective memory. | Ana Souto | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 70 | Creative Commons | Collective Memory and Conflict Representation: War and Peace in Colombian Museums | This paper studies some Colombian museums that are reflecting upon war. | Andrés Pardo Rodriguez | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 71 | Creative Commons | 'Ambassador of Good Will': Three Centuries of American Art in 1930s Europe | The 1938 exhibition, Three Centuries of American Art, on display in Europe and the United States. | Caroline Riley | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 72 | Creative Commons | South African poster propaganda during the Second World War | The paper examines poster propaganda produced in South Africa during the Second World War. | Deirdre Pretorius | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 73 | The AIDS Memorial Quilt: Mourning an Ongoing War | Contemporary Design History; History of the AIDS Crisis | Clementine Power | 30 Sep 2014 | |
| 74 | Creative Commons | Syonan Shimbun: Singapore's Wartime Newspaper | The presentation looks at the design and production of this propaganda paper as part of the wider history of the Singaporean Straits Times, the newspaper it briefly replaced. | Jessie O'Neill | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 75 | Creative Commons | Designed to Kill : The Difficult Study of Military Design | Design is perceived by most as a positive concept meant to improve people lives. But it is first a means to answer efficiently a specific purpose. How can we morally accept that the act of killing led to the development of an important design industry? | Marie-Anne Michaux | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 76 | Creative Commons | Camouflage for peace: disruptive pattern material and dazzle painting in contemporary design and art | The aim of this paper is to analyse the consequences of this change, in other words, the examination of the ways, the strategies, the semiotics and the social uses of the objects which conform the so-called camouflage for peace. | Maite Méndez-Baiges | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 77 | Creative Commons | Draw me an AK-47: Transnational imaginaries in the trenches of the cold war | This paper examines the image of the Kalashnikov in the cold war period through two intersecting lenses that cut across disciplines of design –– the object in its public mediation and the image in its transnational circulation through print culture. | Zeina Maasri | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 78 | Creative Commons | "Good Housing depends on You”: Wartime Housing, 1942 | MoMA’s 1942 Wartime Housing exhibition demonstrated that housing contributed to the war effort. Through innovative display, the museum proposed that new materials, modern techniques, and community planning would create lively permanent communities. | Erin McKellar | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 79 | Creative Commons | Quiet, Humane and ‘Anonymous’: Pevsner’s art-historical response to wartime | This paper focuses on Pevsner’s wartime writings. | Ariyuki Kondo | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 80 | Furniture Behind the Wire | An examination of the material culture and social history of the German internees held on the Isle of Man, who made furniture designed by CR Mackintosh for the Northampton home of the Bassett-Lowke family between 1916 and 1919. | Jake Kaner, Yvonne Cresswell | 30 Sep 2014 | |
| 81 | Creative Commons | The secret dollhouse: craft and resistance in Stalinist Estonia | My presentation will focus on the subject of nonprofessional craft as a tool of resistance against the official power. I will be concentrating on one particular case study from Soviet Estonia, dating from the 1940s. | Triin Jerlei | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 82 | Creative Commons | Material objects and visual web presentation: the Virtual Peace Palace Museum | Material objects and visual web presentation: the Virtual Peace Palace Museum. | Marjan Groot | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 83 | Creative Commons | Conflicting Views: Print Propaganda Depicting Tourism in a Landscape of War | An analysis of Ruth Taylor White’s “cartograph” for the 1945 guidebook A G.I. View of American Red Cross China, India and Burma, published by the American Red Cross. | Dori Griffin | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 84 | Creative Commons | Prints of Peace: Elihu Burritt and the graphics of reform | This talk examines the propaganda campaign conducted by mid-nineteenth century American reformer Elihu Burritt and a group of engravers and artists who used the graphic potential of postal items, such as envelopes, to pressure politicians for peace. | Peter Gilderdale | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 85 | Creative Commons | Book and musket | graphic design of Italian school reports and diplomas during the Fascism | In the interwar period, the Italian school reports and diplomas turned into a direct expression of the most advanced artistic research. Fascism revolutionized institutional graphic design to achieve a modern effective communication. | Caterina Franchini | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 86 | Creative Commons | Modernising the V&A: From War to Reconstruction 1918-51 | In the aftermath of two world wars, the V&A struggled to reconstruct a national view of contemporary art and design in which Britain’s industrial past and contemporary developments could be reconciled. | Laura Elliot | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 87 | Creative Commons | Dressed to Dissent: 'Catch-22' Clothing | This paper examines dress as a form of anti-war Vietnam protest using the cross dressing character of Corporal Maxwell Klinger on the long-running American sitcom MASH as its focus. | Marilyn Cohen | 30 Sep 2014 |
| 88 | Creative Commons | Design during the War: the seventh Triennale in Milan and the Mostra della produzione in serie (Serial production exhibition, 1940) | The Serial production exhibition, by Giuseppe Pagano, opens a new attitude in Italian design. The most advanced industrial products are shown to the public: typewriters, calculators, metal furnitures, microscopes, optical instruments, raincoats and so on. | Alberto Bassi | 28 Sep 2014 |
| 89 | Creative Commons | ENIAC versus Colossus and the early presentation of electronic computers | A description of the concurrent yet different development of electronic computers during WWII in the UK and US– most notably the secrecy of the UK development compared to the widely known work in the US and the consequent effects on the computing industry | Paul Atkinson | 28 Sep 2014 |
| 90 | Creative Commons | ‘Propaganda in Three Dimensions’: British Ministry of Information Exhibitions During World War Two | Exhibitions designed by the British Ministry of Information exhibitions branch during World War Two as official propaganda: their methods and impact. | Harriet Atkinson | 28 Sep 2014 |
| 91 | Danger | Speakers for our seminar on the theme of Danger have Medical and Humanities backgrounds, and will consider the following: experimentation to diminish danger; the risks of ignoring danger, danger to the self and the ideal. | Marion Kibuka, Yasmin Khan, Anna Beer | 12 Aug 2014 | |
| 92 | Creative Commons | Truth | The presentations invite us to consider what truth means to people in different circumstances, and how definitions of truth can affect decision-making, from literary risks to clinical trials. | Anne Jensen, Rosemary Yallop, Carl Heneghan, Yasmin Khan | 12 Aug 2014 |
| 93 | Creative Commons | Patterns | Three speakers share their insights into pattern exploration and, in some cases, exploitation, in their fields of finance, mathematics and climate change. | Bob Lockhart; Kevon Rhiney; David Howard | 12 Aug 2014 |
| 94 | Creative Commons | Was Schubert a musical brain? | Prof. Raymond Tallis deepens his argument against the idea that we are our brains. He believes there is a distinction in kind between humans and other animals. This he illustrates by appeal to the differences between the music of Schubert and the singing | Raymond Tallis | 07 May 2014 |
| 95 | Creative Commons | Spiders, yes, but why cats? | Prof.Iain McGilchrist illustrates his argument by appeal to a number of paintings done by psychotic patients. He points to various commonalities between these paintings and speculates on the ways in which they support claims about the two hemispheres and | Iain McGilchrist | 07 May 2014 |
| 96 | Creative Commons | Am I my mind? | Prof. Iain McGilchrist, whilst agreeing with Tallis that we are not our brains argues that we can learn a great deal about our culture by learning more about our brain. In particular we should recognise we have two hemispheres, each with a different funct | Iain McGilchrist | 07 May 2014 |
| 97 | Creative Commons | Am I my brain? | Prof. Raymond Tallis argues that extraordinary claims have been made for neurophysiology. For example it has been said that a person is nothing but his or her brain. Professor Raymond Tallis rejects this ‘neuromania’. He shows why it is attractive, but al | Raymond Tallis | 07 May 2014 |
| 98 | The Truth about Art 3 - Aesthetics | Another ancient belief held that an art should be governed by rules. | Patrick Doorly | 11 Apr 2014 | |
| 99 | The Truth about Art 1 - Mystery or Mastery | E.H. Gombrich famously observed that 'there really is no such thing as Art' (with a capital A). | Patrick Doorly | 11 Apr 2014 | |
| 100 | Future | The presentations focus on the impact of the concept of future in changing debate, and how, in specific instances, concerns about the future affect behaviours in the present. | David Howard, Jill Hind | 07 Apr 2014 |
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