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Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597 and continues the tradition with new lectures every week. Each lecture is an hour long and is available for download as either MP3 or MP4 files. As well as the eight Gresham Professors who deliver ...
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597 and continues the tradition with new lectures every week. Each lecture is an hour long and is available for download as either MP3 or MP4 files. As well as the eight Gresham Professors who deliver annual lecture series, we have a stream of acclaimed visiting lecturers who talk on topics as varied as history, politics, art, astronomy, religion, mathematics and much more. Visit our website for further information: www.gresham.ac.uk
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Procyclicality of Financial Regulation: And how to deal with it - Professor Charles Goodhart
Boom and Bust cycles are damaging to long-term financial stability. ...
Boom and Bust cycles are damaging to long-term financial stability. How can we hope to lessen their effects in the future in order to achieve a form of finance that is truly sustainable.
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Investing as if the Future Mattered - Dr Matthew Kiernan
The meeting point of finance and sustainability: Does current financial ...
The meeting point of finance and sustainability: Does current financial investment truly reflect the long-term? What would finance look like if it was truly concerned with the long-term? What needs to change to achieve this?
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Olympism: Fair Play - Dr Jim Parry
Fair Play is at the heart of sports ethics, and ...
Fair Play is at the heart of sports ethics, and of Olympic ethics. But what does it mean, and how does it work?
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Empire: Exploitation and Resistance - Professor Richard J Evans
A lecture on the impact of empire on the colonizers ...
A lecture on the impact of empire on the colonizers and the colonized, looking in particular at the comparison between the British Empire and the Belgian Congo.
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Progress on the road to curing motor neuron disease - Professor Chris Shaw
Motor Neuron Disease is perhaps one of the cruelest diseases ...
Motor Neuron Disease is perhaps one of the cruelest diseases known. At the moment there is no known cure, but researchers are working on one all over the world. What are the latest findings? Could an answer be in sight?
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Christian Faith and Modern Art: Searching for New Ways - Richard Harries
An analysis of British Christian artists since the 1960’s, including ...
An analysis of British Christian artists since the 1960’s, including Alfred Herbert, Norman Adams, John Reilly and Craigie Aitchison.
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Mathematics and Sport: Throwing, Jumping, and Spinning - Professor John D Barrow
What knowledge does mathematics provide of the sports in the ...
What knowledge does mathematics provide of the sports in the gymnasium, the velodrome, and the diving pool? Why do high jumpers use the Fosbury flop and long jumpers cycle in the air? How high can rugby players jump in the line out?
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Whatever Turns You On - Professor Glenn Wilson
Sexual fantasies: what are they, where do they come from, ...
Sexual fantasies: what are they, where do they come from, and should we be concerned?
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Olympism: Education - Dr Jim Parry
Education through sport is seen as the cornerstone of Olympic ...
Education through sport is seen as the cornerstone of Olympic ideology. But should we suspicious of how this is put into practice? How, if at all, has this key aim been implemented by London 2012?
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Is it possible? - Mozart's Oboe Quartet - Professor Christopher Hogwood
Christopher Hogwood analyses Mozart’s Oboe Quartet with Mae Wade and ...
Christopher Hogwood analyses Mozart’s Oboe Quartet with Mae Wade and musicians from the RCM.
