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David Gosling - Spying for the Russians (with a little help from MI6)

As part of a visiting fellowship at Delhi University in the mid 1990’s the speaker set up...

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Catalina Taltavull - To fly or not to fly through a volcanic ash cloud

Several encounters of volcanic ash (VA) with aircrafts over the last 30 years have proven that...

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Elizabeth Garnsey - Science and Spin-Outs in Cambridge: Incentives and Impact

Elizabeth Garnsey is Emeritus Reader in Innovation Studies. This talk offers an introduction to...

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Mikiko Chimori - Gulliver in the Orient

The talk will compare Japanese and English illustrations in various editions of Gulliver’s...

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Mikiko Chimori - Gulliver in the Orient

The talk will compare Japanese and English illustrations in various editions of Gulliver’s...

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Foss Lene - Developing Entrepreneurial Universities

Global recessions and structural economic shifts are motivating government and business leaders...

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Heide Estes - An Enemy Robbed Me of Life; Voices of Nature in Old English Poetry

In a series of Riddles written in about the year 1000, animals, plants, and even ore from the...

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Rosanna Cantavella - Sexual education in the Middle Ages

Yes: hard to believe as it may be, sexual education was taught in the Middle Ages throughout...

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Pieter Botha - Considering land and religion in striving for identity

The recently completed Freedom Park is a national monument consisting of various elements, such...

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Mercedes Aguirre, Richard Buxton - Cyclops, Changing Perceptions of an Ogre

Greek myths have always been powerful resources for thinking and feeling: they are ‘good to think...

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Ruth Parkin-Gounelas? - Regarding Animals?, Regarding Humans

How should humans define themselves in relation to other animals? This familiar question has...

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Gillian Brown - 500 years of changing patterns in English English grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation

I shall begin with the most obvious area of rapid change - vocabulary, looking at claims made for...

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Michael Loewe
 - A journey up-­stream, on the day  of the Qingming festival

In about 1100, Zhang Zeduan painted a horizontal scroll that took as its theme the return journey...

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Michael Loewe? - A journey up-­stream, on the day  of the Qingming festival

In about 1100, Zhang Zeduan painted a horizontal scroll that took as its theme the return journey...

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Ian Goldberg - Privacy enhancing technologies: Combatting surveillance and censorship on the Internet

Over the last twenty years, the Internet has become an essential tool for global communication,...

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Bruno Ricco - From Silicon to Graphene and Beyond; The hidden engine of change

We live in the Information society which is changing at unprecedented and ever increasing speed,...

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Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde - The Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy; Liar, liar, pants on fire!

In this colloquium I explore the phenomenon lying and its comic potential. As the playground...

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Malcolm Longair - The Cavendish Laboratory, 1932 to 1953; Decline and Regeneration

1932 was an Annus Mirabilis at the Cavendish Laboratory, the culmination of the Laboratory's...

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Hasok Chang - Is Water H2O?

Every schoolchild knows that water is H2O, but it was a terribly difficult thing for scientists...

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Boudewijn de Bruin - Ethics and the global financial crisis: Why incompetence is worse than greed

To the extent that the global financial crisis is a moral crisis, most commentators have focused...

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