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Thinking Theologically About Modern Art - Discussion
Speakers review issues raised by the symposium. All our lectures are available for free download from the Gresham College website, in video, audio or text formats: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Gresham College professors and guest speakers have been giving free public lectures in central London since 1597.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Apr 25, 2012 -
Soothing the Savage Breast - Professor Glenn D Wilson
Can music heal? For centuries its therapeutic virtues have been extolled.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Oct 6, 2011 -
In the Brain of the Beholder? The Principles of Beauty and Sex Appeal - Professor Glenn D Wilson (Audio)
What constitutes human facial beauty and bodily attractiveness? How do these traits connect with health, fertility, and parental fitness?Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 19, 2011 -
A conversation with The Rt Hon the Lord Woolf of Barnes, The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Professor Richard Susskind and The Rt Hon Lord Woolf of Barnes discuss the Access to Justice Inquiry and reforms to the civil justice system; the structure of the court system; the process of judging; modernisation of the Judiciary; major challenges facing the justice system and the role of the Lord Chief Justice. All our lectures are available for free download from the Gresham College website, in video, audio or text formats: http://www.gresham.ac.ukCollected in GreshamCollege's videos Aug 12, 2011 -
A conversation with David Pannick QC
Professor Richard Susskind and David Pannick QC discuss the impact of human rights legislation in the UK, offering a unique look behind the scenes of specific cases. Their conversation covers freedom of expression, fair hearings, privacy, rights over property and the formal trappings of English courts. http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/a-conversation-with-david-pannick-qcCollected in GreshamCollege's videos Aug 11, 2011 -
Undecidable and Decidable Problems in Mathematics - Professor Angus MacIntyre
What are the limits of proof, and what follows? – A timely look at the life and work of Alan Turing, from the breaking of the Enigma Code during World War II to the birth of modern computing.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos May 31, 2011 -
The Book Of Universes - Professor John Barrow
A special event to mark the publication of Professor Barrow's new book, 'The Book of Universes', available from The Bodley Head publishers: http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1847920985 This is a book about universes, a story that revolves around a single unusual and unappreciated fact: that Einstein’s famous theory of relativity describe universes – entire universes.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Mar 7, 2011 -
The Case for Sustainable Business - David Blood - Gresham College Lectures
The Sir Thomas Gresham Docklands Lecture David Blood, Managing Partner, Generation Investment Management Chaired by Michael Mainelli, Mercer's School Memorial Professor of Commerce at Gresham College Sustainability combines the principles of economic growth, environmental stewardship, governance and social accountability. 'Sustainable' business, commerce and finance are the buzzwords in an age of social and environmental concern.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 23, 2010 -
Symmetry and the Monster - Professor Mark Ronan - Gresham College Lectures
On 30 May 1832 a young Frenchman named Évariste Galois lay dying in a field outside Paris, fatally wounded in a duel. The previous night, he wrote a letter he knew would be his last, summarizing his mathematical work.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 23, 2010 -
Perfectly unpredictable: Why forecasting produces useful rubbish - Professor Michael Mainelli - Gresham College Lectures
At the heart of commerce is the notion that perfect markets aren't predictable, yet great efforts are expended on proving this notion wrong. This contradiction perplexes us as cyberspace's automated and not-so-virtual economies mirror our world, companies deploy innovative incipient trend detection and the apparent power of forecasting tools seems immense.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 23, 2010 -
How to get ahead in commerce: The sure-fire ways to make money - Professor Michael Mainelli - Gresham College Lectures
One school of thought says that markets are just casinos. Another school says that hard work and intelligent thought will pay rewards.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 23, 2010 -
Explanations of enmity: pessimists, optimists and sceptics - Professor Rodney Barker - Gresham College Lectures
Theories, explanations and justifications of enmity, from Adam Ferguson in the Eighteenth Century to Carl Schmitt in the Twentieth. All our lectures are available for free download from the Gresham College website, in video, audio or text formats: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Gresham College professors and guest speakers have been giving free public lectures in central London since 1597.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 23, 2010 -
Demonisation and witch hunts in religion and politics - Professor Rodney Barker - Gresham College Lectures
The origins, character and life of political and religious witch hunts, and the relation between what people say, what they believe and what they do. All our lectures are available for free download from the Gresham College website, in video, audio or text formats: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Gresham College professors and guest speakers have been giving free public lectures in central London since 1597.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 23, 2010 -
Powerplay - Professor Raj Persaud - Gresham College Lectures
How to stop people pushing you around. All our lectures are available for free download from the Gresham College website, in video, audio or text formats: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Gresham College professors and guest speakers have been giving free public lectures in central London since 1597.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 22, 2010 -
Fads and fashions: If they are so bad, why are they so rapidly rich? - Professor Michael Mainelli - Gresham College Lectures
We all know that celebrities, sports stars, estate agents, banks, lawyers and airlines, along with CEO fat cats, are overpaid. Or do we?Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 22, 2010 -
Do governments and societies need enemies? - Professor Rodney Barker - Gresham College Lectures
The ways in which enemies are described and portrayed, and the extent to which this functions to sustain social cohesion and justify the powers of government. All our lectures are available for free download from the Gresham College website, in video, audio or text formats: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Gresham College professors and guest speakers have been giving free public lectures in central London since 1597.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 22, 2010 -
The rhetoric of enmity - Professor Rodney Barker - Gresham College Lectures
""You may tell a lady by the company she keeps."" But you may tell political leaders by the company they shun. Their descriptions of enemies are a way of telling stories about themselves.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 22, 2010 -
Stealing the silver: How we take from the dispossessed, the poor and our own children - Professor Michael Mainelli - Gresham College Lectures
There are numerous cases where well-meaning people find themselves defending amoral, or perhaps even immoral, economics. Regressive taxes, the BBC licence fee, pollution, the Common Agricultural Policy, postcode lotteries and pensions appropriations are all examples where wealth or risk are transferred among segments of the population, or among generations, with social and ethical consequences.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 22, 2010 -
Enemies at home: from class war to the war on crime - Professor Rodney Barker - Gresham College Lectures
Hostility and demonisation in party political rhetoric in Britain. The differences between opponents, enemies, and 'threats to life as we know it'.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 22, 2010 -
Dominance - Professor Raj Persaud - Gresham College Lectures
How to gain power and influence people. All our lectures are available for free download from the Gresham College website, in video, audio or text formats: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Gresham College professors and guest speakers have been giving free public lectures in central London since 1597.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 22, 2010
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GreshamCollege Speakers review issues raised by the symposium. All our lectures are available for free download from the Gresham College website, in video, audio or text formats: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Gresham College professors and guest speakers have been giving free public lectures in central London since 1597. Read More
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