| Britain's economic problems and prospects |
At the time of the 2008 global credit crunch, I participated in Oxford's online debate on whether the economic crisis sounded the death knell for laissez faire capitalism. |
Jonathan Michie |
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| Party games: coalition government in British politics |
This session will look at the history of coalition government in British politics over the past 200 years and discuss some of the constitutional implications of the current Conservative-Liberal Democrat government under David Cameron and Nick Clegg. |
Angus Hawkins |
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| Philosophy in 45 minutes! |
Philosophy deals with the BIG questions of life: does God exist? How should we live? What is truth? What are numbers and do we need them? Does space come to an end or is it infinite? NO SOUND FOR FIRST 3 MINUTES. |
Marianne Talbot |
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| Fitzgerald beyond Gatsby |
With the recent resurgence in interest in F. Scott Fitzgerald following Baz Luhrmann's imaginative film adaptation of Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby have come the inevitable cliches of the 'lost generation' and the 'American dream'. |
Tara Stubbs |
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| Gustav Klimt and secessionist Vienna |
Vienna around 1900 witnessed a vital and anxious surge in art, design, literature and music. This creativity also inspired psychological investigations into the inner self and dreams, most famously by Sigmund Freud. |
Claire O'Mahony |
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| Surprises - for you and for mathematics |
In 1900, pure mathematics had the smug air of a finished product. We thought we knew what it was and we thought we knew how it was done. |
Bob Lockhart |
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| International education: the transformative effect of student migration |
In this short lecture we will consider what the internationalisation of higher education means, and the global implications of international mobility - on the students, on their 'receiving' countries and on their places of origin. |
Johanna Waters |
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| Why music matters in your life |
Imagine a world without music. No music on the radio, no concerts, no musical instruments. No background music in films and television. No music at our weddings, funerals, religious worship or sporting events. |
Jonathan Darnborough |
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| Where's all the wildlife? Flooding and the importance of landscape conservation |
The Oxfordshire floods of 2007, 2008 and 2012 caused enormous disruption to homes, agriculture and local businesses, but what were the consequences for wildlife? |
Kerry Lock |
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| What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls? |
Some film and tv adaptations of Jane Austen's novels might give the impression that the stories are little more than Mills and Boon-type romances in empire-line frocks. |
Sandie Byrne |
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| Too many words? An irreverent guide to screenwriting |
Aristotle's 'Poetics' is regarded as the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory. How much notice do Goldman, Godard, Bertolucci or indeed Tarantino pay to his classic tenets of drama? |
Victor Glynn |
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| Who needs migrant workers? Controversies in international labour migration |
The regulation of labour immigration is among the most important and controversial public policy issues in high-income countries. |
Martin Ruhs |
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| A history of England in five and a half maps |
There is a story behind every map. Generation after generation, we have imprinted ourselves on the land we live upon. Our depictions of that land, in maps, have recorded social attitudes and social change like no other source. |
Jonathan Healey |
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| Spotlight on Archaeology |
Find out about how archaeologists uncover the past using a range of techniques, including excavation, survey and scientific analysis. |
Alison MacDonald |
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| Anniversaries, feasts and commemoration in the Middle Ages |
Ritual celebrations were at the heart of life in medieval communities. The passage of time was articulated by the cycle of the seasons, the exigencies of husbandry and of trade, all inextricably bound up with religious holidays and anniversaries. |
Elizabeth Gemmill |
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| Speaking stories: the oral roots of poetry |
We'll be looking at Beowulf and the epic as a way of passing on experience and history. See your own life as an epic! Where would you start? What would you leave out? Surprise yourself - and us! |
Jenny Lewis |
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| The art of war: The Hundred Years' War in twenty objects |
This lecture will examine one of the longest wars in history, fought between England and France from 1337 to 1453 by scrutinising twenty objects. |
Janina Ramirez |
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