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Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Humanitas is a series of Visiting Professorships at Oxford and Cambridge intended to bring leading practitioners and scholars to both universities to address major themes in the arts, social sciences ... Read more

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One Century of 'Liberal islam': Where do we find ourselves now?

One Century of 'Liberal islam': Where do we find ourselves now?

Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary gives a lecture for the Humanitas lecture series on Interfaith Studies.

28 May 2013

1hr 17mins

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Symposium - The New History of Scientific Experience: Observing, Experimenting, Collecting, Representing and Reading in Early Modern Europe

Symposium - The New History of Scientific Experience: Observing, Experimenting, Collecting, Representing and Reading in Early Modern Europe

With Professor Lorraine Daston, Dr Simon Werrett (UCL), Dr Rhodri Lewis (Oxford), Dr Sachiko Kusukawa (Cambridge) and Pr... Read more

28 May 2013

1hr 4mins

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Lessons on Capital Flows and Financial Stability

Lessons on Capital Flows and Financial Stability

Professor Hyun Song Shin, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University, gives a talk for the Humanitas P... Read more

12 Nov 2012

58mins

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Lessons of The Crisis 2007-2012

Lessons of The Crisis 2007-2012

Stanley Fischer, Govenor of the Bank of Israel and Humanitas Visiting Professor of Economic Thought, gives a talk for th... Read more

10 Nov 2012

1hr 22mins

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Resisting Apologetics: What can we learn from Ibn Rushd and our contemporaries?

Resisting Apologetics: What can we learn from Ibn Rushd and our contemporaries?

Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary gives a lecture for the Humanitas lecture series on Interfaith Studies.

28 May 2013

1hr 2mins

Ranked #6

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Pictures and Texts

Pictures and Texts

A symposium with William Kentridge, Ivo Mesquita and Estrella de Diego Otero, chaired by Shearer West on Thursday 9 May ... Read more

28 May 2013

59mins

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Marshall G S Hodgson, Islam and World History

Marshall G S Hodgson, Islam and World History

Professor Sir Christopher Bayly gives a talk for the Humanitias lecture series in Historiography with a response from Dr... Read more

28 May 2013

1hr 14mins

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In Conversation: Writing the History of Reason

In Conversation: Writing the History of Reason

Professor Lorraine Daston in conversation with Professor Sally Shuttleworth.

28 May 2013

34mins

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Mark Thompson: Consign it to the flames

Mark Thompson: Consign it to the flames

Almost everyone accepts that science is our most authoritative guide to understanding the world so why is it so disputed... Read more

15 Nov 2012

50mins

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Michael Winterbottom in Conversation: Genres, Adaptation and Contemporary Cinema

Michael Winterbottom in Conversation: Genres, Adaptation and Contemporary Cinema

Filmmaker Michael Winterbottom gives a talk for the Humanitas lecture series on Film and Television.

28 May 2013

1hr 17mins

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The Hidden Power of the Re-Creative Process in Music

The Hidden Power of the Re-Creative Process in Music

Imogen Cooper, 'Recognized worldwide as a pianist of virtuosity and poetic poise', gives a lecture for the Humanitas lec... Read more

28 May 2013

50mins

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Our Religious Traditions in a long Historical Perspective

Our Religious Traditions in a long Historical Perspective

Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary gives a lecture for the Humanitas lecture series on Interfaith Studies.

28 May 2013

1hr 29mins

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Two Concepts of Sharia?

Two Concepts of Sharia?

Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary gives a lecture for the Humanitas lecture series on Interfaith Studies.

28 May 2013

46mins

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Performance - interpretation or identification? Symposium

Performance - interpretation or identification? Symposium

Symposium with Imogen Cooper actor, Simon Callow, musicologist, Professor Eric Clarke and Professor Jason Stanyek.

28 May 2013

1hr 24mins

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Mark Thompson: Inaugural Lecture - Is Plato winning the argument?

Mark Thompson: Inaugural Lecture - Is Plato winning the argument?

Drawing in particular on recent examples from American and British healthcare reform, Mark Thompson asks whether the lan... Read more

15 Nov 2012

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Lessons for banking reform

Lessons for banking reform

Professor Sir John Vickers, Warden All Souls College, gives a workshop on Economic thought looking at banking reform.

10 Nov 2012

55mins

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Film Workshop: the cinema of Michael Winterbottom

Film Workshop: the cinema of Michael Winterbottom

Filmmaker Michael Winterbottom hosts a workshop on Film for the Humanitas lecture series on Film and Television.

28 May 2013

1hr 25mins

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General Hayden, Lecture: "Terrorism and Islam's Civil War: Whither the Threat?"

General Hayden, Lecture: "Terrorism and Islam's Civil War: Whither the Threat?"

Former Director of the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency General Hayden gives a talk for the Huma... Read more

25 Feb 2014

1hr 1min

Ranked #19

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General Hayden, Lecture: "My Government, My Security and Me"

General Hayden, Lecture: "My Government, My Security and Me"

Former Director of the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency General Hayden gives a talk for the Huma... Read more

25 Feb 2014

45mins

Ranked #20

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Rowan Williams, Lecture: ‘Faith and Human Flourishing: religious belief and ideals of maturity’?

Rowan Williams, Lecture: ‘Faith and Human Flourishing: religious belief and ideals of maturity’?

Rowan Williams, visiting professor in Interfaith Studies, gives a lecture on religious beliefs and human flourishing

12 Feb 2014

1hr 25mins

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