THE SEMINARS ON OFFER THIS YEAR WERE:
Does one ‘native speaker’ turn a Pidgin into a Creole? Language, the individual and society – Mrs Collier . Tweets, Likes & Memes: the ethics and philosophy of Social Media, and the necessity for collective responsibility – Mr Swift . Society and the individual scientist: Watt, the Engineer who changed the world – Mr Kennedy . Physics in the Press – Education or Hype? Dr Matthew Chalmers , freelance science journalist. The Artist and the State: Joan Miró and the Abstract Expressionists in the Cold War – Mr Nash . Candles, Castles, Bricks and Beams – the individual and society in Great Expectations – Mr Eyre . Wrestling the other: grappling with race, class and gender in World Wrestling Entertainment – Mr Drew . Violence, the individual and society: integrating the offender back into society, fact and fiction - Mr Ratnasabapathy and Dr Lawrence Ratnasabapathy , consultant psychiatrist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barnet.
If you want to live the American Dream … Live in Denmark. How inequality impacts on individuals and society – Mr Storey .
Why you might not exist – a beginner’s guide to personal identity – Dr Kinch .
When Adam Delved and Eve Span, Who was Then a Gentleman? The Diggers and Levellers as social and political revolutionaries – Mr Northcote-Green . Five Steps to Tyranny: how ordinary people are surprisingly willing to do the tyrant’s dirty work and the susceptibility of human nature – Mr King . The Free Market, Society and the Individual – Mark Littlewood , Director-General of the Institute for Economic Affairs. ‘Where have all the handouts gone?!’ The psychology of different approaches to studying and learning at school and university – Dr Griffiths .
Ibsen’s primal scream: the struggle of the individual in an unjust society – Mr Trevill .
Queen Victoria’s Coronation in 1838 – who was it for? Dr Carnelley .
The Great Depression and the Great Recession: how individually rational decisions can break an economy, and society – Mr Fyfe .
There is such a thing as society: the Economics of Alienation – Mr Threadgould .
‘Why is mine bigger than yours?’ Competition and co-operation in Animal Societies – Dr Cue .
From the Cockpit to the Globe – Exploring Shakespeare’s Bankside through the Treasures of the College Archives – Mr Weaver . Hell is Other People: literary, philosophical, psychological and psychoanalytic perspectives – Dr Croally .
The rise of the Chav: is Thatcher to blame for this much-ridiculed and disaffected class in society? – Miss Gill .
Society and the Individual: Are we Architects or Products of our Social Worlds? Ideas and evidence from Social Psychology – Ms Simpson .
Shockingly Funny: Comedy and Society from Aristophanes to Frankie Boyle – Mr Fisher .
‘That’s So Random’: how chance influences our lives as individuals, and the societies we live in – Mr Andrews .
Hitler, German Society and the Power of Indoctrination – Mr Middleton .
. … Lies and Videotape: How We Fabricate Our Society and our Selves – Mr Brinton .
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