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The Royal Society of Literature is a learned society and the "senior literary organisation in Britain".It was founded in 1820 by King George IV to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".The society's first president was Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's .The society maintains its current level of about 500 Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature: generally 14 new fellows are elected annually, who are accorded the privilege of using the post-nominal letters FRSL.
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We need mathematical help to tell the difference between a real discovery and the illusion of one. Fellow of the Royal Society and future President of the Royal Statistical Society, Sir David Spiegelhalter visits Dr Nicole Janz to discuss reproducibility in scientific publications.
- published: 22 Dec 2015
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Speaker(s): Dr Sarah Carr, Paul Farmer, Nathan Filer, Dr John McGowan
Chair: Professor Martin Knapp
Recorded on 25 February 2015.
How mental illness is portrayed in art, literature and on TV can have a positive or negative effect on how the public perceives mental ill health. Representations of people with mental health problems can range from the mad psychotic criminal to people within their daily lives dealing with depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. This panel discussion explores how such presentations of mental illness can affect public understanding of mental ill health with insights from research and personal experiences.
Sarah Carr (@SchrebersSister) has a background as a senior research and policy analyst in mental health and social care, with a focus on service user participation, personalisation and equality issues. She runs her own independent mental health and social care knowledge consultancy. Most recently she worked for the Social Care Institute of Excellence (SCIE) as a Senior Research Analyst and was seconded to the role of Joint Head of Participation. She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute for Applied Social Science, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham; a Visiting Fellow, Social Policy and Social Work, University of York and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. As Co Vice-Chair of the National Survivor and User Network (NSUN) and a member of the editorial board of the journal Disability and Society, Sarah has a particular interest in mental health issues and is a long term user of services.
Paul Farmer (@paulfarmermind) has been Chief Executive of Mind, the leading mental health charity working in England and Wales, since May 2006. Paul is Chair of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), the leading voice of the UK’s charity and social enterprise sector. Paul is also a trustee at Lloyds Bank Foundation which invests in charities supporting people to break out of disadvantage at critical points in their lives. He is also Chair of the NHS England Mental Health Patient Safety Board. Paul received an honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of East London and was chosen as most admired charity Chief Executive in the Third Sector Most Admired Charities Awards 2013.
Nathan Filer (@nathanfiler) is the author of The Shock of the Fall, winner of the Costa Book of the Year (2013), the Betty Trask Prize (2014), and Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the National Book Awards (2014). It has been translated into twenty-seven languages. He worked as a mental health nurse for many years and in 2014 was named as a Nursing Times’ Nursing Leader for “influencing the way the public thinks about mental illness”. He lectures in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
John McGowan (@cccuapppsy) is Clinical Psychologist. Following many years working in acute mental health wards in the NHS, he is now works on the Clinical Psychology Training scheme at the Salomons Centre for Applied Psychology in Kent. As well as conducting research into self-harm and suicide, he is currently editing a new British Psychological Society Report on Depression. He has written for The Guardian, the Health Service Journal and blogs regularly at Discursive of Tunbridge Wells. He will be speaking on 'Psychos, Cuckoo's Nests and Silver Linings: Madness in the Movies'.
Martin Knapp is Director of PSSRU and a Professor of Social Policy at LSE. He is also Director of the NIHR School for Social Care Research.
The Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) is one of the leading social care research groups, not just in the UK, but internationally. The LSE branch of PSSRU sits within LSE Health and Social Care (@LSEHSC) in the Department of Social Policy (@LSESocialPolicy).
This event forms part of the LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2015, taking place from Monday 23 - Saturday 28 February 2015, with the theme 'Foundations'.
- published: 05 Mar 2015
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When he first entered college, Fussell intended a career in journalism. His plans changed when his sergeant was killed beside him in combat, about which he wrote in his memoir Doing Battle (1996).[12] In his writings he opposed war, promoting instead a vision of rational enlightenment. He pointed to what he saw as the hypocrisy of governmental speech and the corruption of popular culture.[5]
His published thesis, Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England, was developed into Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965), a popular textbook for understanding poetry.[13] Samuel Johnson and The Life of Writing (1971)[14] offered an analysis of the work of the English lexicographer, Samuel Johnson. The Anti-Egotist, Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters was a study of the life and work of friend and colleague, Kingsley Amis.[15]
The award-winning The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)[16] was a cultural and literary analysis of the impact of World War I on the development of modern literature and modern literary conventions.[1] John Keegan said its effect was "revolutionary", in that it showed how literature could be a vehicle for expressing the experience of large groups.[1] "What Paul did was go to the literary treatments of the war by 20 or 30 participants and turn them into an encapsulation of a collective European experience". (John Keegan)[1] Joseph Heller called it "the best book I know of about world war one".
Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars (1980) was a pioneering academic examination of travel literature which examined the travel books of Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence and Robert Byron.[1]
Fussell stated that he relished the inevitable controversy of Class: A Guide Through the American Status System (1983)[17] and indulged his increasing public status as a loved or hated "curmudgeon"[1] in the rant called BAD: or, The Dumbing of America (1991). In between, Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays (1988)[18] confirmed his war against government and military doublespeak and prepared the way for Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989).[19] The epiphany of his earlier essay, "My War", found full expression in his memoir Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic (1996), "My Adolescent illusions, largely intact to that moment, fell away all at once, and I suddenly knew I was not and never would be in a world that was reasonable or just".[5] The last book by Fussell published while he was alive, The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–45 (2003)[20] was once again concerned with the experience of combat in World War II.
Fussell's 1975 literary study The Great War and Modern Memory won the National Book Award in category Arts and Letters.[21] the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa.[9] It was ranked number 75 in the Modern Library's Board's List of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century.[22]
He was elected in 1977 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[23]
He won the 2005 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for The Boys' Crusade.[citation needed] Fussell was one of several veterans interviewed in the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The War in 2007, and in the 1999 ABC-produced documentary The Century: America's Time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fussell
- published: 04 Nov 2016
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Dawkins is Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He is considered to be one of the leading figures in modern evolutionary biology and has written extensively about evolution and science. Dawkins' first book The Selfish Gene (1976) was an immediate bestseller. In 1987, he won both the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize for The Blind Watchmaker (1986) (the television film of the book won the Sci-Tech Prize for Best Science Programme). His numerous writings include studies of evolution, creationism, and genetics. In his most recent book Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1998), Dawkins examines the connections among science, mysticism, and human nature, and claims that "science, at its best, should leave room for poetry." In addition to receiving the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize, Dawkins's awards and accomplishments include the 1989 Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London and the 1990 Royal Society Michael Faraday Award for the furtherance of the public understanding of science. In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Dawkins was born in 1941 in Nairobi. His family returned to England in 1949. Dawkins completed his undergraduate and graduate work at Oxford under the instruction of Nobel Prize-winning biologist Niko Tinbergen. After a two-year stint between 1967 and 1969, as Assistant Professor of Zoology at UC Berkeley, he returned to Oxford where he became a fellow at New College, where he still teaches.
- published: 14 Aug 2012
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In partnership with the Royal Society, a discussion with John Banville, James Blair, Terrie Moffitt and Fay Weldon. Chair: Professor Uta Frith FRS
Filmed at The Royal Society, London on Mon 15 Oct 2007 6.30pm-8.00pm
- published: 13 Aug 2014
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Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
Richard Sennett has explored how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory. As a social analyst he continues the pragmatist tradition begun by William James and John Dewey.
His first book, The Uses of Disorder, 1970 looked at how personal identity takes form in the modern city. He then studied how working-class identities are shaped in modern society, in The Hidden Injuries of Class, written with Jonathan Cobb. 1972 A study of the public realm of cities, The Fall of Public Man, appeared in 1977; at the end of this decade of writing, Mr. Sennett sought to account the philosophic implications of this work in Authority 1980.
At this point he took a break from sociology, composing three novels: The Frog who Dared to Croak 1982, An Evening of Brahms 1984 and Palais Royal 1987. He then returned to urban studies with two books, The Conscience of the Eye, 1990, a work focusing on urban design, and Flesh and Stone 1992, a general historical study of how bodily experience has been shaped by the evolution of cities.
In the mid 1990s, as the work-world of modern capitalism began to alter quickly and radically, Professor Sennett began a project charting its personal consequences for workers, a project which has carried him up to the present day. The first of these studies, The Corrosion of Character, 1998 is an ethnographic account of how middle-level employees make sense of the "new economy." The second in the series, Respect in a World of Inequality, 2002} charts the effects of new ways of working on the welfare state; a third, The Culture of the New Capitalism, 2006 provides an over-view of change. Most recently, Mr. Sennett has explored more positive aspects of labor in The Craftsman 2008, and in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation 2012.
- published: 03 Jan 2013
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One of the greatest living writers, Nobel Prize-winning VS Naipaul, in conversation with DLF director Ahsan Akbar about his literary work
Fifty five years ago, A House for Mr Biswas placed Sir Vidia as one of the youngest fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. Described by TIME magazine as ‘a master of the modern novel,’ he produced literary masterpieces such as In a Free State, Guerrillas, An Area of Darkness, The Mimic Men, The Enigma of Arrival, A Bend in the River, Among the Believers and many other modern classics in both fiction and nonfiction. This is Sir Vidia’s first ever trip to Bangladesh and he comes as a guest of honour of Dhaka Lit Fest.
- published: 27 Nov 2016
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The British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted this Lecture in Religious Studies on Dec 1 2015 in London.
The lecture was delivered by the Rt Revd and Rt Hon the Lord (Rowan) Williams of Oystermouth
Chaired by: Professor Philip Alexander FBA, University of Manchester
Studies of tragic drama still refer from time to time to the argument that a theological/ religious worldview is inherently anti-tragic. The debate has drawn in figures as diverse as Helen Gardner, George Steiner and Terry Eagleton, as well as theologians like Donald MacKinnon. Recent studies of tragedy have complicated the issue further by questioning essentialist models of tragic drama or narrative, while a growing number of theologians have made use of dramatic categories. This lecture explored how the discussion has moved on, and how newer accounts of the tragic suggest different theological possibilities.
About the speaker:
Rowan Williams is Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. He is the author of a number of books on the frontiers of theology, philosophy and literary studies, as well as several volumes of poetry. He is a Fellow of the Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.
- published: 03 Dec 2015
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Richard Dawkins was first catapulted to fame with his iconic work The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of bestselling books. Part one of his autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder, was published in 2013.
Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the Royal Society of Literature Award (1987), the Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society (1990), the International Cosmos Prize for Achievement in Human Science (1997), the Kistler Prize (2001), the Shakespeare Prize (2005), the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2006), the Galaxy British Book Awards Author of the Year Award (2007), the Deschner Prize (2007) and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest (2009). He retired from his position as Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University in 2008 and remains a Fellow of New College.
In 2012, scientists studying fish in Sri Lanka created Dawkinsia as a new genus name, in recognition of his contribution to the public understanding of evolutionary science. In the same year, Richard Dawkins appeared in the BBC Four television series Beautiful Minds, revealing how he came to write The Selfish Gene and speaking about some of the events covered in this autobiography.
In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world's top thinker in Prospect magazine's poll of over 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.
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Royal Society
The President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science and is possibly the oldest such society still in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a royal charter by King Charles II as "The Royal Society". The society today acts as a scientific advisor to the British government, receiving a parliamentary grant-in-aid. The society acts as the UK's Academy of Sciences and funds research fellowships and scientific start-up companies.
The society is governed by its council, which is chaired by the society's president, according to a set of statutes and standing orders. The members of council and the president are elected from and by its fellows, the basic members of the society, who are themselves elected by existing fellows. There are currently about 1,450 fellows, allowed to use the postnominal title FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society), with up to 52 new fellows appointed each year. There are also royal fellows, honorary fellows and foreign members, the last of which are allowed to use the postnominal title ForMemRS (Foreign Member of the Royal Society). The current Royal Society President is Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who took up the post on November 30, 2015.
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A society is a group of people involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent members. In the social sciences, a larger society often evinces stratification or dominance patterns in subgroups.
Insofar as it is collaborative, a society can enable its members to benefit in ways that would not otherwise be possible on an individual basis; both individual and social (common) benefits can thus be distinguished, or in many cases found to overlap.
A society can also consist of like-minded people governed by their own norms and values within a dominant, larger society. This is sometimes referred to as a subculture, a term used extensively within criminology.
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The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society and the "senior literary organisation in Britain". It was founded in 1820 by King George IV to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".
The society's first president was Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's (who was later translated as Bishop of Salisbury). The society maintains its current level of about 450 Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature: generally 14 new fellows are elected annually, who are accorded the privilege of using the post-nominal letters FRSL.
Past fellows include Samuel Taylor Coleridge, J. R. R. Tolkien, W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Koestler, Chinua Achebe and P.J. Kavanagh. Present Fellows include Antonia Fraser, Athol Fugard, V. S. Naipaul, Peter Dickinson, Tom Stoppard, Helen Dunmore and J. K. Rowling. A newly created fellow inscribes their name on the society's official roll using either Byron's pen or T.S. Eliot's fountain pen, which replaced Dickens's quill in 2013.
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World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, or the Great War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. Over 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war (including the victims of a number of genocides), a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and the tactical stalemate caused by trench warfare, a grueling form of warfare in which the defender held the advantage. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and paved the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved.
The war drew in all the world's economic great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom/British Empire, France and the Russian Empire) versus the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Although Italy was a member of the Triple Alliance alongside Germany and Austria-Hungary, it did not join the Central Powers, as Austria-Hungary had taken the offensive, against the terms of the alliance. These alliances were reorganised and expanded as more nations entered the war: Italy, Japan and the United States joined the Allies, while the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria joined the Central Powers.
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The Royal Society of Literature is a learned society and the "senior literary organisation in Britain".It was founded in 1820 by King George IV to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".The society's first president was Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's .The society maintains its current level of about 500 Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature: generally 14 new fellows are elected annually, who are accorded the privilege of using the post-nominal letters FRSL. This channel is dedicated to make Wikipedia, one of the biggest knowledge databases in the world available to people with limited vision. Article available under a Creative Commons license Image source in video -
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We need mathematical help to tell the difference between a real discovery and the illusion of one. Fellow of the Royal Society and future President of the Royal Statistical Society, Sir David Spiegelhalter visits Dr Nicole Janz to discuss reproducibility in scientific publications. -
1:29:30Perceptions of Madness: understanding mental illness through art, literature and drama
Perceptions of Madness: understanding mental illness through art, literature and dramaPerceptions of Madness: understanding mental illness through art, literature and drama
Speaker(s): Dr Sarah Carr, Paul Farmer, Nathan Filer, Dr John McGowan Chair: Professor Martin Knapp Recorded on 25 February 2015. How mental illness is portrayed in art, literature and on TV can have a positive or negative effect on how the public perceives mental ill health. Representations of people with mental health problems can range from the mad psychotic criminal to people within their daily lives dealing with depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. This panel discussion explores how such presentations of mental illness can affect public understanding of mental ill health with insights from research and personal experiences. Sarah Carr (@SchrebersSister) has a background as a senior research and policy analyst in mental health and social care, with a focus on service user participation, personalisation and equality issues. She runs her own independent mental health and social care knowledge consultancy. Most recently she worked for the Social Care Institute of Excellence (SCIE) as a Senior Research Analyst and was seconded to the role of Joint Head of Participation. She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute for Applied Social Science, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham; a Visiting Fellow, Social Policy and Social Work, University of York and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. As Co Vice-Chair of the National Survivor and User Network (NSUN) and a member of the editorial board of the journal Disability and Society, Sarah has a particular interest in mental health issues and is a long term user of services. Paul Farmer (@paulfarmermind) has been Chief Executive of Mind, the leading mental health charity working in England and Wales, since May 2006. Paul is Chair of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), the leading voice of the UK’s charity and social enterprise sector. Paul is also a trustee at Lloyds Bank Foundation which invests in charities supporting people to break out of disadvantage at critical points in their lives. He is also Chair of the NHS England Mental Health Patient Safety Board. Paul received an honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of East London and was chosen as most admired charity Chief Executive in the Third Sector Most Admired Charities Awards 2013. Nathan Filer (@nathanfiler) is the author of The Shock of the Fall, winner of the Costa Book of the Year (2013), the Betty Trask Prize (2014), and Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the National Book Awards (2014). It has been translated into twenty-seven languages. He worked as a mental health nurse for many years and in 2014 was named as a Nursing Times’ Nursing Leader for “influencing the way the public thinks about mental illness”. He lectures in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. John McGowan (@cccuapppsy) is Clinical Psychologist. Following many years working in acute mental health wards in the NHS, he is now works on the Clinical Psychology Training scheme at the Salomons Centre for Applied Psychology in Kent. As well as conducting research into self-harm and suicide, he is currently editing a new British Psychological Society Report on Depression. He has written for The Guardian, the Health Service Journal and blogs regularly at Discursive of Tunbridge Wells. He will be speaking on 'Psychos, Cuckoo's Nests and Silver Linings: Madness in the Movies'. Martin Knapp is Director of PSSRU and a Professor of Social Policy at LSE. He is also Director of the NIHR School for Social Care Research. The Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) is one of the leading social care research groups, not just in the UK, but internationally. The LSE branch of PSSRU sits within LSE Health and Social Care (@LSEHSC) in the Department of Social Policy (@LSESocialPolicy). This event forms part of the LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2015, taking place from Monday 23 - Saturday 28 February 2015, with the theme 'Foundations'. -
1:03:48A Literate, Literary, and Illuminating Account of the Great War (2000)
A Literate, Literary, and Illuminating Account of the Great War (2000)A Literate, Literary, and Illuminating Account of the Great War (2000)
When he first entered college, Fussell intended a career in journalism. His plans changed when his sergeant was killed beside him in combat, about which he wrote in his memoir Doing Battle (1996).[12] In his writings he opposed war, promoting instead a vision of rational enlightenment. He pointed to what he saw as the hypocrisy of governmental speech and the corruption of popular culture.[5] His published thesis, Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England, was developed into Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965), a popular textbook for understanding poetry.[13] Samuel Johnson and The Life of Writing (1971)[14] offered an analysis of the work of the English lexicographer, Samuel Johnson. The Anti-Egotist, Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters was a study of the life and work of friend and colleague, Kingsley Amis.[15] The award-winning The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)[16] was a cultural and literary analysis of the impact of World War I on the development of modern literature and modern literary conventions.[1] John Keegan said its effect was "revolutionary", in that it showed how literature could be a vehicle for expressing the experience of large groups.[1] "What Paul did was go to the literary treatments of the war by 20 or 30 participants and turn them into an encapsulation of a collective European experience". (John Keegan)[1] Joseph Heller called it "the best book I know of about world war one". Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars (1980) was a pioneering academic examination of travel literature which examined the travel books of Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence and Robert Byron.[1] Fussell stated that he relished the inevitable controversy of Class: A Guide Through the American Status System (1983)[17] and indulged his increasing public status as a loved or hated "curmudgeon"[1] in the rant called BAD: or, The Dumbing of America (1991). In between, Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays (1988)[18] confirmed his war against government and military doublespeak and prepared the way for Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989).[19] The epiphany of his earlier essay, "My War", found full expression in his memoir Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic (1996), "My Adolescent illusions, largely intact to that moment, fell away all at once, and I suddenly knew I was not and never would be in a world that was reasonable or just".[5] The last book by Fussell published while he was alive, The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–45 (2003)[20] was once again concerned with the experience of combat in World War II. Fussell's 1975 literary study The Great War and Modern Memory won the National Book Award in category Arts and Letters.[21] the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa.[9] It was ranked number 75 in the Modern Library's Board's List of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century.[22] He was elected in 1977 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[23] He won the 2005 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for The Boys' Crusade.[citation needed] Fussell was one of several veterans interviewed in the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The War in 2007, and in the 1999 ABC-produced documentary The Century: America's Time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fussell -
1:30:08The Gene's Eye View of Creation: The Selfish Cooperator
The Gene's Eye View of Creation: The Selfish CooperatorThe Gene's Eye View of Creation: The Selfish Cooperator
Dawkins is Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He is considered to be one of the leading figures in modern evolutionary biology and has written extensively about evolution and science. Dawkins' first book The Selfish Gene (1976) was an immediate bestseller. In 1987, he won both the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize for The Blind Watchmaker (1986) (the television film of the book won the Sci-Tech Prize for Best Science Programme). His numerous writings include studies of evolution, creationism, and genetics. In his most recent book Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1998), Dawkins examines the connections among science, mysticism, and human nature, and claims that "science, at its best, should leave room for poetry." In addition to receiving the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize, Dawkins's awards and accomplishments include the 1989 Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London and the 1990 Royal Society Michael Faraday Award for the furtherance of the public understanding of science. In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Dawkins was born in 1941 in Nairobi. His family returned to England in 1949. Dawkins completed his undergraduate and graduate work at Oxford under the instruction of Nobel Prize-winning biologist Niko Tinbergen. After a two-year stint between 1967 and 1969, as Assistant Professor of Zoology at UC Berkeley, he returned to Oxford where he became a fellow at New College, where he still teaches. -
1:29:05Behaving badly
Behaving badlyBehaving badly
In partnership with the Royal Society, a discussion with John Banville, James Blair, Terrie Moffitt and Fay Weldon. Chair: Professor Uta Frith FRS Filmed at The Royal Society, London on Mon 15 Oct 2007 6.30pm-8.00pm -
1:16:54Richard Sennett: The Architecture of Cooperation
Richard Sennett: The Architecture of CooperationRichard Sennett: The Architecture of Cooperation
Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. Richard Sennett has explored how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory. As a social analyst he continues the pragmatist tradition begun by William James and John Dewey. His first book, The Uses of Disorder, 1970 looked at how personal identity takes form in the modern city. He then studied how working-class identities are shaped in modern society, in The Hidden Injuries of Class, written with Jonathan Cobb. 1972 A study of the public realm of cities, The Fall of Public Man, appeared in 1977; at the end of this decade of writing, Mr. Sennett sought to account the philosophic implications of this work in Authority 1980. At this point he took a break from sociology, composing three novels: The Frog who Dared to Croak 1982, An Evening of Brahms 1984 and Palais Royal 1987. He then returned to urban studies with two books, The Conscience of the Eye, 1990, a work focusing on urban design, and Flesh and Stone 1992, a general historical study of how bodily experience has been shaped by the evolution of cities. In the mid 1990s, as the work-world of modern capitalism began to alter quickly and radically, Professor Sennett began a project charting its personal consequences for workers, a project which has carried him up to the present day. The first of these studies, The Corrosion of Character, 1998 is an ethnographic account of how middle-level employees make sense of the "new economy." The second in the series, Respect in a World of Inequality, 2002} charts the effects of new ways of working on the welfare state; a third, The Culture of the New Capitalism, 2006 provides an over-view of change. Most recently, Mr. Sennett has explored more positive aspects of labor in The Craftsman 2008, and in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation 2012. -
51:29THE WRITER AND THE WORLD: VS NAIPAUL
THE WRITER AND THE WORLD: VS NAIPAULTHE WRITER AND THE WORLD: VS NAIPAUL
One of the greatest living writers, Nobel Prize-winning VS Naipaul, in conversation with DLF director Ahsan Akbar about his literary work Fifty five years ago, A House for Mr Biswas placed Sir Vidia as one of the youngest fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. Described by TIME magazine as ‘a master of the modern novel,’ he produced literary masterpieces such as In a Free State, Guerrillas, An Area of Darkness, The Mimic Men, The Enigma of Arrival, A Bend in the River, Among the Believers and many other modern classics in both fiction and nonfiction. This is Sir Vidia’s first ever trip to Bangladesh and he comes as a guest of honour of Dhaka Lit Fest. -
1:10:25Theology and the tragic: A debate revisited. A lecture by the Rt Revd Rowan Williams
Theology and the tragic: A debate revisited. A lecture by the Rt Revd Rowan WilliamsTheology and the tragic: A debate revisited. A lecture by the Rt Revd Rowan Williams
The British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted this Lecture in Religious Studies on Dec 1 2015 in London. The lecture was delivered by the Rt Revd and Rt Hon the Lord (Rowan) Williams of Oystermouth Chaired by: Professor Philip Alexander FBA, University of Manchester Studies of tragic drama still refer from time to time to the argument that a theological/ religious worldview is inherently anti-tragic. The debate has drawn in figures as diverse as Helen Gardner, George Steiner and Terry Eagleton, as well as theologians like Donald MacKinnon. Recent studies of tragedy have complicated the issue further by questioning essentialist models of tragic drama or narrative, while a growing number of theologians have made use of dramatic categories. This lecture explored how the discussion has moved on, and how newer accounts of the tragic suggest different theological possibilities. About the speaker: Rowan Williams is Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. He is the author of a number of books on the frontiers of theology, philosophy and literary studies, as well as several volumes of poetry. He is a Fellow of the Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. -
5:31Writers On Writing | Richard Dawkins
Writers On Writing | Richard DawkinsWriters On Writing | Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins was first catapulted to fame with his iconic work The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of bestselling books. Part one of his autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder, was published in 2013. Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the Royal Society of Literature Award (1987), the Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society (1990), the International Cosmos Prize for Achievement in Human Science (1997), the Kistler Prize (2001), the Shakespeare Prize (2005), the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2006), the Galaxy British Book Awards Author of the Year Award (2007), the Deschner Prize (2007) and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest (2009). He retired from his position as Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University in 2008 and remains a Fellow of New College. In 2012, scientists studying fish in Sri Lanka created Dawkinsia as a new genus name, in recognition of his contribution to the public understanding of evolutionary science. In the same year, Richard Dawkins appeared in the BBC Four television series Beautiful Minds, revealing how he came to write The Selfish Gene and speaking about some of the events covered in this autobiography. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world's top thinker in Prospect magazine's poll of over 10,000 readers from over 100 countries. Subscribe to Book Studio 16 to see all the newest videos! - http://goo.gl/Rge4H3 Discover more great books and authors at: http://www.harpercollins.com Book Studio 16 is your home for the best literary content on YouTube. Enjoy our library of exclusive content featuring interviews with your favorite authors, cover reveals, book trailers and more.
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- A Crooked Mile released: 2011
- Songs From the Brickhouse released: 2009
A Crooked Mile
Released 2011- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Wheels a' Turning
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen 40 Days
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Light of the Morning
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Blues Flag
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Roll Home Sweetheart
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Days to Come
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Davey
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Judge & Jury
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Crawling Over Town
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Morning Star
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Martyr's Avenue
Songs From the Brickhouse
Released 2009- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Fools End
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen On My Way
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Blown on the Breeze
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen I Watch the Rain Fall Out of You
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen I Do Belong
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Back in the Woods
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Long Train
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Too Late for Sunrise
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Knives
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Fit to Bust
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen When the Lights Go Down
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- Book of Thugs: Chapter A.K., Verse 47 released: 2000
- Yes 'n' Deed (The E.P.) released: 1994
Book of Thugs: Chapter A.K., Verse 47
Released 2000- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Intro (Marvin Dixon)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Boy
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Sittin' on D's
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Get On Up
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen America
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Shut Up
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Thug for Life
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Hoe (skit)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Walkin' Like a Hoe
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Tryin to Stop Smokin
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Bout My Money
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Could It Be
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Thug Life Again
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Kill Your Ass
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Gotta Let You Have It
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Hoe but Can't Help It
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Outro (Marvin Dixon)
Yes 'n' Deed (The E.P.)
Released 1994- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Hotep (intro)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Yes 'n' Deed
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen F.U.N.K (From Us Nasty Kidz)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen A.I.D.S (prelude)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Parkay
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Rap as an Art
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Man 'o' Man (prelude)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen What Is a Man?
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- Sixties Archives, Volume 2: Texas Punk Groups released: 1991
Sixties Archives, Volume 2: Texas Punk Groups
Released 1991- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Unchain My Heart
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen It's My Time
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen High & Mighty
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Summer Sunset
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen You're a Better Man Than I
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Train Kept-A-Rollin'
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Twist & Shout
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ain't That Lovin' You Baby
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen I Need You There
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Sad
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Dirty Old Man (At the Age of Sixteen)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen But It's Alright
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen 1523 Blair
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Smokestack Lightning
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen I Satisfy
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Good Times
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen I'll Be Gone
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Alright
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Please Come Back
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen They All Want Her Love
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen I'm Gonna Get in That Girl's Mind
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Lively One
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Cuttin' Out
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Bad Seed
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Love for a Price
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen I'm Gone
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Baby I Ask You Why
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen You Need Love
Society
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- Abstract Jazz Journey: Mixed by Rainer Trüby released: 2005
- Keb Darge's Legendary Deep Funk, Volume 2 released: 1998
- Monolithic Minds released: 1997
- Singing 12-Pack, Volume 7: Rockin' Roots Sampler released:
Abstract Jazz Journey: Mixed by Rainer Trüby
Released 2005- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Justice, Mercy
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Hisa Beats
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Planet Birth (feat. Andy Bey) (Trüby Trio Treatment)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Find a Way (Danny Krivit edit)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Dub Side Influence (MKL Lion1 Music remix)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen New Music
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen How's Life? (feat. Ovasoul7) (Cilla Collabo remix)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Back 2 Chicago (R.D & Doc Link Short Drive mix) (feat. Malik)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen On My Way
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Treasure Everywhere
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Flight (feat. Monique Bingham) (Nulife vocal mix)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Reach 4 Freedom (DF's vocal mix)
Keb Darge's Legendary Deep Funk, Volume 2
Released 1998- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Silly Savage
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Coffee Pot, Part 1
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Blues for the Bs
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Power Struggle
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Getting Soul, Part 1
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Firebird
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Psycho, Part 1
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Can We Rap
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Get It Right, Part 1
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Sissy Walk
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Natural
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Trespasser, Part 2
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Krunchberry Beast
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Blueberry Hill
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Society
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen You Got It All
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen That Didn't Sop me
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Spread Love
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Love Call
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Modernization
Monolithic Minds
Released 1997- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Goes Like Evvy
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Droon
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Too Many Secrets
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Blended
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Don't Mind Me I'm Brusle (DJ Yod & DJ Surgical mix)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Módir (Seba's Secret Operations mix)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Yassr (remix)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Nip
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Lo-Mo
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Riding Her
Singing 12-Pack, Volume 7: Rockin' Roots Sampler
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Box of Broken Hearts
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Watching the Trains
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Step Out of the Shade
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Howlin' at the Moon
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Moonshine
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen So Good, So Far
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Second Sight
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Restlessness
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Satisfied
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen I Watch the Rain Fall Out of You
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Hard to Say
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Beneath Southland Skies
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- All That We've Become released: 2012
Society
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- Ad Infinitum released: 2003
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Royal Society of Literature
The Royal Society of Literature is a learned society and the "senior literary organisation in Britain".It was founded in 1820 by King George IV to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".The society's first president was Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's .The society maintains its current level of about 500 Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature: generally 14 new fellows are elected annually, who are accorded the privilege of using the post-nominal letters FRSL. This channel is dedicated to make Wikipedia, one of the biggest knowledge databases in the world available to people with limited vision. Article available under a Creative Commons license Image source in video
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Science Stories - Unexpected
We need mathematical help to tell the difference between a real discovery and the illusion of one. Fellow of the Royal Society and future President of the Royal Statistical Society, Sir David Spiegelhalter visits Dr Nicole Janz to discuss reproducibility in scientific publications.
published: 22 Dec 2015 -
Perceptions of Madness: understanding mental illness through art, literature and drama
Speaker(s): Dr Sarah Carr, Paul Farmer, Nathan Filer, Dr John McGowan Chair: Professor Martin Knapp Recorded on 25 February 2015. How mental illness is portrayed in art, literature and on TV can have a positive or negative effect on how the public perceives mental ill health. Representations of people with mental health problems can range from the mad psychotic criminal to people within their daily lives dealing with depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. This panel discussion explores how such presentations of mental illness can affect public understanding of mental ill health with insights from research and personal experiences. Sarah Carr (@SchrebersSister) has a background as a senior research and policy analyst in mental health and social care, with a focus on service use...
published: 05 Mar 2015 -
A Literate, Literary, and Illuminating Account of the Great War (2000)
When he first entered college, Fussell intended a career in journalism. His plans changed when his sergeant was killed beside him in combat, about which he wrote in his memoir Doing Battle (1996).[12] In his writings he opposed war, promoting instead a vision of rational enlightenment. He pointed to what he saw as the hypocrisy of governmental speech and the corruption of popular culture.[5] His published thesis, Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England, was developed into Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965), a popular textbook for understanding poetry.[13] Samuel Johnson and The Life of Writing (1971)[14] offered an analysis of the work of the English lexicographer, Samuel Johnson. The Anti-Egotist, Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters was a study of the life and work of friend and colle...
published: 04 Nov 2016 -
The Gene's Eye View of Creation: The Selfish Cooperator
Dawkins is Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He is considered to be one of the leading figures in modern evolutionary biology and has written extensively about evolution and science. Dawkins' first book The Selfish Gene (1976) was an immediate bestseller. In 1987, he won both the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize for The Blind Watchmaker (1986) (the television film of the book won the Sci-Tech Prize for Best Science Programme). His numerous writings include studies of evolution, creationism, and genetics. In his most recent book Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1998), Dawkins examines the connections among science, mysticism, and human nature, and claims that "science, ...
published: 14 Aug 2012 -
Behaving badly
In partnership with the Royal Society, a discussion with John Banville, James Blair, Terrie Moffitt and Fay Weldon. Chair: Professor Uta Frith FRS Filmed at The Royal Society, London on Mon 15 Oct 2007 6.30pm-8.00pm
published: 13 Aug 2014 -
Richard Sennett: The Architecture of Cooperation
Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. Richard Sennett has explored how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social ...
published: 03 Jan 2013 -
THE WRITER AND THE WORLD: VS NAIPAUL
One of the greatest living writers, Nobel Prize-winning VS Naipaul, in conversation with DLF director Ahsan Akbar about his literary work Fifty five years ago, A House for Mr Biswas placed Sir Vidia as one of the youngest fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. Described by TIME magazine as ‘a master of the modern novel,’ he produced literary masterpieces such as In a Free State, Guerrillas, An Area of Darkness, The Mimic Men, The Enigma of Arrival, A Bend in the River, Among the Believers and many other modern classics in both fiction and nonfiction. This is Sir Vidia’s first ever trip to Bangladesh and he comes as a guest of honour of Dhaka Lit Fest.
published: 27 Nov 2016 -
Theology and the tragic: A debate revisited. A lecture by the Rt Revd Rowan Williams
The British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted this Lecture in Religious Studies on Dec 1 2015 in London. The lecture was delivered by the Rt Revd and Rt Hon the Lord (Rowan) Williams of Oystermouth Chaired by: Professor Philip Alexander FBA, University of Manchester Studies of tragic drama still refer from time to time to the argument that a theological/ religious worldview is inherently anti-tragic. The debate has drawn in figures as diverse as Helen Gardner, George Steiner and Terry Eagleton, as well as theologians like Donald MacKinnon. Recent studies of tragedy have complicated the issue further by questioning essentialist models of tragic drama or narrative, while a growing number of theologians have made use of dramatic categories. This lecture explored how the ...
published: 03 Dec 2015 -
Writers On Writing | Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins was first catapulted to fame with his iconic work The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of bestselling books. Part one of his autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder, was published in 2013. Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the Royal Society of Literature Award (1987), the Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society (1990), the International Cosmos Prize for Achievement in Human Science (1997), the Kistler Prize (2001), the Shakespeare Prize (2005), the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2006), the Galaxy British Book Awards Author of the Year Award (2007), the Deschner Prize (2007) and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest (2...
published: 12 May 2016
Royal Society of Literature
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The Royal Society of Literature is a learned society and the "senior literary organisation in Britain".It was founded in 1820 by King George IV to "reward liter...
The Royal Society of Literature is a learned society and the "senior literary organisation in Britain".It was founded in 1820 by King George IV to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".The society's first president was Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's .The society maintains its current level of about 500 Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature: generally 14 new fellows are elected annually, who are accorded the privilege of using the post-nominal letters FRSL.
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The Royal Society of Literature is a learned society and the "senior literary organisation in Britain".It was founded in 1820 by King George IV to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".The society's first president was Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's .The society maintains its current level of about 500 Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature: generally 14 new fellows are elected annually, who are accorded the privilege of using the post-nominal letters FRSL.
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- published: 31 Aug 2016
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Science Stories - Unexpected
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- Duration: 5:19
- Updated: 22 Dec 2015
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We need mathematical help to tell the difference between a real discovery and the illusion of one. Fellow of the Royal Society and future President of the Royal...
We need mathematical help to tell the difference between a real discovery and the illusion of one. Fellow of the Royal Society and future President of the Royal Statistical Society, Sir David Spiegelhalter visits Dr Nicole Janz to discuss reproducibility in scientific publications.
https://wn.com/Science_Stories_Unexpected
We need mathematical help to tell the difference between a real discovery and the illusion of one. Fellow of the Royal Society and future President of the Royal Statistical Society, Sir David Spiegelhalter visits Dr Nicole Janz to discuss reproducibility in scientific publications.
- published: 22 Dec 2015
- views: 4430
Perceptions of Madness: understanding mental illness through art, literature and drama
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- Duration: 1:29:30
- Updated: 05 Mar 2015
- views: 2342
Speaker(s): Dr Sarah Carr, Paul Farmer, Nathan Filer, Dr John McGowan
Chair: Professor Martin Knapp
Recorded on 25 February 2015.
How mental illness is portr...
Speaker(s): Dr Sarah Carr, Paul Farmer, Nathan Filer, Dr John McGowan
Chair: Professor Martin Knapp
Recorded on 25 February 2015.
How mental illness is portrayed in art, literature and on TV can have a positive or negative effect on how the public perceives mental ill health. Representations of people with mental health problems can range from the mad psychotic criminal to people within their daily lives dealing with depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. This panel discussion explores how such presentations of mental illness can affect public understanding of mental ill health with insights from research and personal experiences.
Sarah Carr (@SchrebersSister) has a background as a senior research and policy analyst in mental health and social care, with a focus on service user participation, personalisation and equality issues. She runs her own independent mental health and social care knowledge consultancy. Most recently she worked for the Social Care Institute of Excellence (SCIE) as a Senior Research Analyst and was seconded to the role of Joint Head of Participation. She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute for Applied Social Science, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham; a Visiting Fellow, Social Policy and Social Work, University of York and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. As Co Vice-Chair of the National Survivor and User Network (NSUN) and a member of the editorial board of the journal Disability and Society, Sarah has a particular interest in mental health issues and is a long term user of services.
Paul Farmer (@paulfarmermind) has been Chief Executive of Mind, the leading mental health charity working in England and Wales, since May 2006. Paul is Chair of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), the leading voice of the UK’s charity and social enterprise sector. Paul is also a trustee at Lloyds Bank Foundation which invests in charities supporting people to break out of disadvantage at critical points in their lives. He is also Chair of the NHS England Mental Health Patient Safety Board. Paul received an honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of East London and was chosen as most admired charity Chief Executive in the Third Sector Most Admired Charities Awards 2013.
Nathan Filer (@nathanfiler) is the author of The Shock of the Fall, winner of the Costa Book of the Year (2013), the Betty Trask Prize (2014), and Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the National Book Awards (2014). It has been translated into twenty-seven languages. He worked as a mental health nurse for many years and in 2014 was named as a Nursing Times’ Nursing Leader for “influencing the way the public thinks about mental illness”. He lectures in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
John McGowan (@cccuapppsy) is Clinical Psychologist. Following many years working in acute mental health wards in the NHS, he is now works on the Clinical Psychology Training scheme at the Salomons Centre for Applied Psychology in Kent. As well as conducting research into self-harm and suicide, he is currently editing a new British Psychological Society Report on Depression. He has written for The Guardian, the Health Service Journal and blogs regularly at Discursive of Tunbridge Wells. He will be speaking on 'Psychos, Cuckoo's Nests and Silver Linings: Madness in the Movies'.
Martin Knapp is Director of PSSRU and a Professor of Social Policy at LSE. He is also Director of the NIHR School for Social Care Research.
The Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) is one of the leading social care research groups, not just in the UK, but internationally. The LSE branch of PSSRU sits within LSE Health and Social Care (@LSEHSC) in the Department of Social Policy (@LSESocialPolicy).
This event forms part of the LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2015, taking place from Monday 23 - Saturday 28 February 2015, with the theme 'Foundations'.
https://wn.com/Perceptions_Of_Madness_Understanding_Mental_Illness_Through_Art,_Literature_And_Drama
Speaker(s): Dr Sarah Carr, Paul Farmer, Nathan Filer, Dr John McGowan
Chair: Professor Martin Knapp
Recorded on 25 February 2015.
How mental illness is portrayed in art, literature and on TV can have a positive or negative effect on how the public perceives mental ill health. Representations of people with mental health problems can range from the mad psychotic criminal to people within their daily lives dealing with depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. This panel discussion explores how such presentations of mental illness can affect public understanding of mental ill health with insights from research and personal experiences.
Sarah Carr (@SchrebersSister) has a background as a senior research and policy analyst in mental health and social care, with a focus on service user participation, personalisation and equality issues. She runs her own independent mental health and social care knowledge consultancy. Most recently she worked for the Social Care Institute of Excellence (SCIE) as a Senior Research Analyst and was seconded to the role of Joint Head of Participation. She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute for Applied Social Science, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham; a Visiting Fellow, Social Policy and Social Work, University of York and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. As Co Vice-Chair of the National Survivor and User Network (NSUN) and a member of the editorial board of the journal Disability and Society, Sarah has a particular interest in mental health issues and is a long term user of services.
Paul Farmer (@paulfarmermind) has been Chief Executive of Mind, the leading mental health charity working in England and Wales, since May 2006. Paul is Chair of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), the leading voice of the UK’s charity and social enterprise sector. Paul is also a trustee at Lloyds Bank Foundation which invests in charities supporting people to break out of disadvantage at critical points in their lives. He is also Chair of the NHS England Mental Health Patient Safety Board. Paul received an honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of East London and was chosen as most admired charity Chief Executive in the Third Sector Most Admired Charities Awards 2013.
Nathan Filer (@nathanfiler) is the author of The Shock of the Fall, winner of the Costa Book of the Year (2013), the Betty Trask Prize (2014), and Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the National Book Awards (2014). It has been translated into twenty-seven languages. He worked as a mental health nurse for many years and in 2014 was named as a Nursing Times’ Nursing Leader for “influencing the way the public thinks about mental illness”. He lectures in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
John McGowan (@cccuapppsy) is Clinical Psychologist. Following many years working in acute mental health wards in the NHS, he is now works on the Clinical Psychology Training scheme at the Salomons Centre for Applied Psychology in Kent. As well as conducting research into self-harm and suicide, he is currently editing a new British Psychological Society Report on Depression. He has written for The Guardian, the Health Service Journal and blogs regularly at Discursive of Tunbridge Wells. He will be speaking on 'Psychos, Cuckoo's Nests and Silver Linings: Madness in the Movies'.
Martin Knapp is Director of PSSRU and a Professor of Social Policy at LSE. He is also Director of the NIHR School for Social Care Research.
The Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) is one of the leading social care research groups, not just in the UK, but internationally. The LSE branch of PSSRU sits within LSE Health and Social Care (@LSEHSC) in the Department of Social Policy (@LSESocialPolicy).
This event forms part of the LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2015, taking place from Monday 23 - Saturday 28 February 2015, with the theme 'Foundations'.
- published: 05 Mar 2015
- views: 2342
A Literate, Literary, and Illuminating Account of the Great War (2000)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:03:48
- Updated: 04 Nov 2016
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When he first entered college, Fussell intended a career in journalism. His plans changed when his sergeant was killed beside him in combat, about which he wrot...
When he first entered college, Fussell intended a career in journalism. His plans changed when his sergeant was killed beside him in combat, about which he wrote in his memoir Doing Battle (1996).[12] In his writings he opposed war, promoting instead a vision of rational enlightenment. He pointed to what he saw as the hypocrisy of governmental speech and the corruption of popular culture.[5]
His published thesis, Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England, was developed into Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965), a popular textbook for understanding poetry.[13] Samuel Johnson and The Life of Writing (1971)[14] offered an analysis of the work of the English lexicographer, Samuel Johnson. The Anti-Egotist, Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters was a study of the life and work of friend and colleague, Kingsley Amis.[15]
The award-winning The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)[16] was a cultural and literary analysis of the impact of World War I on the development of modern literature and modern literary conventions.[1] John Keegan said its effect was "revolutionary", in that it showed how literature could be a vehicle for expressing the experience of large groups.[1] "What Paul did was go to the literary treatments of the war by 20 or 30 participants and turn them into an encapsulation of a collective European experience". (John Keegan)[1] Joseph Heller called it "the best book I know of about world war one".
Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars (1980) was a pioneering academic examination of travel literature which examined the travel books of Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence and Robert Byron.[1]
Fussell stated that he relished the inevitable controversy of Class: A Guide Through the American Status System (1983)[17] and indulged his increasing public status as a loved or hated "curmudgeon"[1] in the rant called BAD: or, The Dumbing of America (1991). In between, Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays (1988)[18] confirmed his war against government and military doublespeak and prepared the way for Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989).[19] The epiphany of his earlier essay, "My War", found full expression in his memoir Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic (1996), "My Adolescent illusions, largely intact to that moment, fell away all at once, and I suddenly knew I was not and never would be in a world that was reasonable or just".[5] The last book by Fussell published while he was alive, The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–45 (2003)[20] was once again concerned with the experience of combat in World War II.
Fussell's 1975 literary study The Great War and Modern Memory won the National Book Award in category Arts and Letters.[21] the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa.[9] It was ranked number 75 in the Modern Library's Board's List of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century.[22]
He was elected in 1977 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[23]
He won the 2005 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for The Boys' Crusade.[citation needed] Fussell was one of several veterans interviewed in the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The War in 2007, and in the 1999 ABC-produced documentary The Century: America's Time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fussell
https://wn.com/A_Literate,_Literary,_And_Illuminating_Account_Of_The_Great_War_(2000)
When he first entered college, Fussell intended a career in journalism. His plans changed when his sergeant was killed beside him in combat, about which he wrote in his memoir Doing Battle (1996).[12] In his writings he opposed war, promoting instead a vision of rational enlightenment. He pointed to what he saw as the hypocrisy of governmental speech and the corruption of popular culture.[5]
His published thesis, Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England, was developed into Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965), a popular textbook for understanding poetry.[13] Samuel Johnson and The Life of Writing (1971)[14] offered an analysis of the work of the English lexicographer, Samuel Johnson. The Anti-Egotist, Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters was a study of the life and work of friend and colleague, Kingsley Amis.[15]
The award-winning The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)[16] was a cultural and literary analysis of the impact of World War I on the development of modern literature and modern literary conventions.[1] John Keegan said its effect was "revolutionary", in that it showed how literature could be a vehicle for expressing the experience of large groups.[1] "What Paul did was go to the literary treatments of the war by 20 or 30 participants and turn them into an encapsulation of a collective European experience". (John Keegan)[1] Joseph Heller called it "the best book I know of about world war one".
Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars (1980) was a pioneering academic examination of travel literature which examined the travel books of Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence and Robert Byron.[1]
Fussell stated that he relished the inevitable controversy of Class: A Guide Through the American Status System (1983)[17] and indulged his increasing public status as a loved or hated "curmudgeon"[1] in the rant called BAD: or, The Dumbing of America (1991). In between, Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays (1988)[18] confirmed his war against government and military doublespeak and prepared the way for Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989).[19] The epiphany of his earlier essay, "My War", found full expression in his memoir Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic (1996), "My Adolescent illusions, largely intact to that moment, fell away all at once, and I suddenly knew I was not and never would be in a world that was reasonable or just".[5] The last book by Fussell published while he was alive, The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–45 (2003)[20] was once again concerned with the experience of combat in World War II.
Fussell's 1975 literary study The Great War and Modern Memory won the National Book Award in category Arts and Letters.[21] the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa.[9] It was ranked number 75 in the Modern Library's Board's List of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century.[22]
He was elected in 1977 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[23]
He won the 2005 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for The Boys' Crusade.[citation needed] Fussell was one of several veterans interviewed in the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The War in 2007, and in the 1999 ABC-produced documentary The Century: America's Time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fussell
- published: 04 Nov 2016
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The Gene's Eye View of Creation: The Selfish Cooperator
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- Duration: 1:30:08
- Updated: 14 Aug 2012
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Dawkins is Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He is considered to be one of the leading figures in modern evolutionar...
Dawkins is Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He is considered to be one of the leading figures in modern evolutionary biology and has written extensively about evolution and science. Dawkins' first book The Selfish Gene (1976) was an immediate bestseller. In 1987, he won both the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize for The Blind Watchmaker (1986) (the television film of the book won the Sci-Tech Prize for Best Science Programme). His numerous writings include studies of evolution, creationism, and genetics. In his most recent book Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1998), Dawkins examines the connections among science, mysticism, and human nature, and claims that "science, at its best, should leave room for poetry." In addition to receiving the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize, Dawkins's awards and accomplishments include the 1989 Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London and the 1990 Royal Society Michael Faraday Award for the furtherance of the public understanding of science. In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Dawkins was born in 1941 in Nairobi. His family returned to England in 1949. Dawkins completed his undergraduate and graduate work at Oxford under the instruction of Nobel Prize-winning biologist Niko Tinbergen. After a two-year stint between 1967 and 1969, as Assistant Professor of Zoology at UC Berkeley, he returned to Oxford where he became a fellow at New College, where he still teaches.
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Dawkins is Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He is considered to be one of the leading figures in modern evolutionary biology and has written extensively about evolution and science. Dawkins' first book The Selfish Gene (1976) was an immediate bestseller. In 1987, he won both the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize for The Blind Watchmaker (1986) (the television film of the book won the Sci-Tech Prize for Best Science Programme). His numerous writings include studies of evolution, creationism, and genetics. In his most recent book Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1998), Dawkins examines the connections among science, mysticism, and human nature, and claims that "science, at its best, should leave room for poetry." In addition to receiving the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize, Dawkins's awards and accomplishments include the 1989 Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London and the 1990 Royal Society Michael Faraday Award for the furtherance of the public understanding of science. In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Dawkins was born in 1941 in Nairobi. His family returned to England in 1949. Dawkins completed his undergraduate and graduate work at Oxford under the instruction of Nobel Prize-winning biologist Niko Tinbergen. After a two-year stint between 1967 and 1969, as Assistant Professor of Zoology at UC Berkeley, he returned to Oxford where he became a fellow at New College, where he still teaches.
- published: 14 Aug 2012
- views: 1949
Behaving badly
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- Duration: 1:29:05
- Updated: 13 Aug 2014
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In partnership with the Royal Society, a discussion with John Banville, James Blair, Terrie Moffitt and Fay Weldon. Chair: Professor Uta Frith FRS
Filmed at The...
In partnership with the Royal Society, a discussion with John Banville, James Blair, Terrie Moffitt and Fay Weldon. Chair: Professor Uta Frith FRS
Filmed at The Royal Society, London on Mon 15 Oct 2007 6.30pm-8.00pm
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In partnership with the Royal Society, a discussion with John Banville, James Blair, Terrie Moffitt and Fay Weldon. Chair: Professor Uta Frith FRS
Filmed at The Royal Society, London on Mon 15 Oct 2007 6.30pm-8.00pm
- published: 13 Aug 2014
- views: 89
Richard Sennett: The Architecture of Cooperation
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- Duration: 1:16:54
- Updated: 03 Jan 2013
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Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He...
Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
Richard Sennett has explored how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory. As a social analyst he continues the pragmatist tradition begun by William James and John Dewey.
His first book, The Uses of Disorder, 1970 looked at how personal identity takes form in the modern city. He then studied how working-class identities are shaped in modern society, in The Hidden Injuries of Class, written with Jonathan Cobb. 1972 A study of the public realm of cities, The Fall of Public Man, appeared in 1977; at the end of this decade of writing, Mr. Sennett sought to account the philosophic implications of this work in Authority 1980.
At this point he took a break from sociology, composing three novels: The Frog who Dared to Croak 1982, An Evening of Brahms 1984 and Palais Royal 1987. He then returned to urban studies with two books, The Conscience of the Eye, 1990, a work focusing on urban design, and Flesh and Stone 1992, a general historical study of how bodily experience has been shaped by the evolution of cities.
In the mid 1990s, as the work-world of modern capitalism began to alter quickly and radically, Professor Sennett began a project charting its personal consequences for workers, a project which has carried him up to the present day. The first of these studies, The Corrosion of Character, 1998 is an ethnographic account of how middle-level employees make sense of the "new economy." The second in the series, Respect in a World of Inequality, 2002} charts the effects of new ways of working on the welfare state; a third, The Culture of the New Capitalism, 2006 provides an over-view of change. Most recently, Mr. Sennett has explored more positive aspects of labor in The Craftsman 2008, and in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation 2012.
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Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
Richard Sennett has explored how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory. As a social analyst he continues the pragmatist tradition begun by William James and John Dewey.
His first book, The Uses of Disorder, 1970 looked at how personal identity takes form in the modern city. He then studied how working-class identities are shaped in modern society, in The Hidden Injuries of Class, written with Jonathan Cobb. 1972 A study of the public realm of cities, The Fall of Public Man, appeared in 1977; at the end of this decade of writing, Mr. Sennett sought to account the philosophic implications of this work in Authority 1980.
At this point he took a break from sociology, composing three novels: The Frog who Dared to Croak 1982, An Evening of Brahms 1984 and Palais Royal 1987. He then returned to urban studies with two books, The Conscience of the Eye, 1990, a work focusing on urban design, and Flesh and Stone 1992, a general historical study of how bodily experience has been shaped by the evolution of cities.
In the mid 1990s, as the work-world of modern capitalism began to alter quickly and radically, Professor Sennett began a project charting its personal consequences for workers, a project which has carried him up to the present day. The first of these studies, The Corrosion of Character, 1998 is an ethnographic account of how middle-level employees make sense of the "new economy." The second in the series, Respect in a World of Inequality, 2002} charts the effects of new ways of working on the welfare state; a third, The Culture of the New Capitalism, 2006 provides an over-view of change. Most recently, Mr. Sennett has explored more positive aspects of labor in The Craftsman 2008, and in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation 2012.
- published: 03 Jan 2013
- views: 527
THE WRITER AND THE WORLD: VS NAIPAUL
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- Duration: 51:29
- Updated: 27 Nov 2016
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One of the greatest living writers, Nobel Prize-winning VS Naipaul, in conversation with DLF director Ahsan Akbar about his literary work
Fifty five years ago, ...
One of the greatest living writers, Nobel Prize-winning VS Naipaul, in conversation with DLF director Ahsan Akbar about his literary work
Fifty five years ago, A House for Mr Biswas placed Sir Vidia as one of the youngest fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. Described by TIME magazine as ‘a master of the modern novel,’ he produced literary masterpieces such as In a Free State, Guerrillas, An Area of Darkness, The Mimic Men, The Enigma of Arrival, A Bend in the River, Among the Believers and many other modern classics in both fiction and nonfiction. This is Sir Vidia’s first ever trip to Bangladesh and he comes as a guest of honour of Dhaka Lit Fest.
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One of the greatest living writers, Nobel Prize-winning VS Naipaul, in conversation with DLF director Ahsan Akbar about his literary work
Fifty five years ago, A House for Mr Biswas placed Sir Vidia as one of the youngest fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. Described by TIME magazine as ‘a master of the modern novel,’ he produced literary masterpieces such as In a Free State, Guerrillas, An Area of Darkness, The Mimic Men, The Enigma of Arrival, A Bend in the River, Among the Believers and many other modern classics in both fiction and nonfiction. This is Sir Vidia’s first ever trip to Bangladesh and he comes as a guest of honour of Dhaka Lit Fest.
- published: 27 Nov 2016
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Theology and the tragic: A debate revisited. A lecture by the Rt Revd Rowan Williams
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- Duration: 1:10:25
- Updated: 03 Dec 2015
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The British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted this Lecture in Religious Studies on Dec 1 2015 in London.
The lecture was delivered by the Rt...
The British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted this Lecture in Religious Studies on Dec 1 2015 in London.
The lecture was delivered by the Rt Revd and Rt Hon the Lord (Rowan) Williams of Oystermouth
Chaired by: Professor Philip Alexander FBA, University of Manchester
Studies of tragic drama still refer from time to time to the argument that a theological/ religious worldview is inherently anti-tragic. The debate has drawn in figures as diverse as Helen Gardner, George Steiner and Terry Eagleton, as well as theologians like Donald MacKinnon. Recent studies of tragedy have complicated the issue further by questioning essentialist models of tragic drama or narrative, while a growing number of theologians have made use of dramatic categories. This lecture explored how the discussion has moved on, and how newer accounts of the tragic suggest different theological possibilities.
About the speaker:
Rowan Williams is Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. He is the author of a number of books on the frontiers of theology, philosophy and literary studies, as well as several volumes of poetry. He is a Fellow of the Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.
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The British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted this Lecture in Religious Studies on Dec 1 2015 in London.
The lecture was delivered by the Rt Revd and Rt Hon the Lord (Rowan) Williams of Oystermouth
Chaired by: Professor Philip Alexander FBA, University of Manchester
Studies of tragic drama still refer from time to time to the argument that a theological/ religious worldview is inherently anti-tragic. The debate has drawn in figures as diverse as Helen Gardner, George Steiner and Terry Eagleton, as well as theologians like Donald MacKinnon. Recent studies of tragedy have complicated the issue further by questioning essentialist models of tragic drama or narrative, while a growing number of theologians have made use of dramatic categories. This lecture explored how the discussion has moved on, and how newer accounts of the tragic suggest different theological possibilities.
About the speaker:
Rowan Williams is Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. He is the author of a number of books on the frontiers of theology, philosophy and literary studies, as well as several volumes of poetry. He is a Fellow of the Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.
- published: 03 Dec 2015
- views: 3106
Writers On Writing | Richard Dawkins
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- Duration: 5:31
- Updated: 12 May 2016
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Richard Dawkins was first catapulted to fame with his iconic work The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of bestselling books. Part one of his autobi...
Richard Dawkins was first catapulted to fame with his iconic work The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of bestselling books. Part one of his autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder, was published in 2013.
Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the Royal Society of Literature Award (1987), the Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society (1990), the International Cosmos Prize for Achievement in Human Science (1997), the Kistler Prize (2001), the Shakespeare Prize (2005), the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2006), the Galaxy British Book Awards Author of the Year Award (2007), the Deschner Prize (2007) and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest (2009). He retired from his position as Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University in 2008 and remains a Fellow of New College.
In 2012, scientists studying fish in Sri Lanka created Dawkinsia as a new genus name, in recognition of his contribution to the public understanding of evolutionary science. In the same year, Richard Dawkins appeared in the BBC Four television series Beautiful Minds, revealing how he came to write The Selfish Gene and speaking about some of the events covered in this autobiography.
In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world's top thinker in Prospect magazine's poll of over 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.
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Richard Dawkins was first catapulted to fame with his iconic work The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of bestselling books. Part one of his autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder, was published in 2013.
Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the Royal Society of Literature Award (1987), the Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society (1990), the International Cosmos Prize for Achievement in Human Science (1997), the Kistler Prize (2001), the Shakespeare Prize (2005), the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2006), the Galaxy British Book Awards Author of the Year Award (2007), the Deschner Prize (2007) and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest (2009). He retired from his position as Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University in 2008 and remains a Fellow of New College.
In 2012, scientists studying fish in Sri Lanka created Dawkinsia as a new genus name, in recognition of his contribution to the public understanding of evolutionary science. In the same year, Richard Dawkins appeared in the BBC Four television series Beautiful Minds, revealing how he came to write The Selfish Gene and speaking about some of the events covered in this autobiography.
In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world's top thinker in Prospect magazine's poll of over 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.
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Book Studio 16 is your home for the best literary content on YouTube. Enjoy our library of exclusive content featuring interviews with your favorite authors, cover reveals, book trailers and more.
- published: 12 May 2016
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Independence of the Seas FULLY GUIDED SHIP TOUR 2016 (4K Ultra HD)
For Cruise Reservations and Quotes: (800) 711-6113 or visit http://www.oceanwidetravel.com Enjoy this informative and fully guided cruise ship tour on Royal Caribbean's Independence of the Seas with your cruise specialist Susan Huffman. Contact us to book your next cruise vacation at susan@oceanwidetravel.com, (800)711-6113 or http://www.oceanwidetravel.com. Hello Future Cruisers! During this video, you'll learn several tips to help you get the most out of your cruise vacation. To skip to a specific area onboard, please click on your desired location below. Royal Promenade (Deck 5) 0:40 Pyramid Lounge (Deck 5) 1:08 Connoisseur Club (Deck 5) 1:26 Champagne Bar (Deck 5) 1:55 Guest Services (Deck 5) 2:06 Shore Excursions (Deck 5) 2:11 Main Dining Room (Deck 3) 3:05 Art Auction (Deck 3)...
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England & Wales Travel Skills
Subscribe at http://goo.gl/l6qjuS for more new travel talks! We'll journey to England's coastal communities from windswept and desolate Dartmoor to Portsmouth and Brighton. Then turn northeast to Canterbury and its famous tales, and over to Dover's castle and channel crossing that takes you beyond the pond. Download the PDF handout for this class: http://goo.gl/5N85I7 (Disclaimer: Any special promotions mentioned are no longer valid.)
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Edinburgh
In this program we explore the cultural heart of Scotland. After rambling through Edinburgh Castle, we experience Scottish literature and Scotch whisky, savor the new Scottish cuisine with a local friend, stow away on Her Majesty's yacht Britannia, and check out the new Scottish Parliament. © 2006 Rick Steves' Europe
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RSA ANIMATE: Crises of Capitalism
In this RSA Animate, celebrated academic David Harvey looks beyond capitalism towards a new social order. Can we find a more responsible, just, and humane economic system? The RSA is a 258 year-old charity devoted to creating social progress and spreading world-changing ideas. For more information about our research, RSA Animates, free events programme and 27,000 strong fellowship. Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RSAEvents Like the RSA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rsaeventsofficial/ Listen to RSA podcasts: https://soundcloud.com/the_rsa See RSA Events behind the scenes: https://instagram.com/rsa_events/ ------ Produced and edited by Abi Stephenson, RSA. Animation by Cognitive Media. Andrew Park, the mastermind behind the Animate series and everyone's favourite ...
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Brighton, England: Royal Pavilion and Pier
More info about travel to Brighton: https://www.ricksteves.com/europe/england/brighton Brighton is south England's Coney Island, and Brighton Pier is the place to go for a fix of junk food and dizzying rides. Just a couple blocks down is Brighton's Royal Pavilion, with its eccentric exterior that recalls the city's flamboyant heyday as a vacation spot for King George IV. At http://www.ricksteves.com, you'll find money-saving travel tips, small-group tours, guidebooks, TV shows, radio programs, podcasts, and more on this destination.
published: 22 Feb 2017 -
Drowned landscapes - Caroline Wickham-Jones | The Royal Society
The only lands on Earth that have not been extensively explored are those that have been lost to the oceans. After the end of the last Ice Age extensive landscapes that had once been home to thousands of people were inundated by the sea. Although scientists predicted their existence for many years, exploration has only recently become a reality. Caroline Wickham-Jones from the Drowned landscapes exhibit taking part in the 2012 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition discusses her work.
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Copenhagen
As we get to know Copenhagen, we'll discover reminders of its Viking history and see reflections today of its proudly independent ways. We'll stroll down Europe's first great pedestrian boulevard, ogle crown jewels in the palace treasury, and take a bike ride through an inspirational hippie squatter community, finishing at Copenhagen's full-time carnival, Tivoli Gardens. © 2008 Rick Steves' Europe
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Amazing Thailand Luxury: Where Life Rules Everything
WWW.LUXURYSOCIETYASIA.COM Thailand has always been a destination of choice; there is a myriad of attractions from its islands and beaches to the cuisine and big city vibe of Bangkok. The Kingdom also has a long tradition of catering to luxury travellers. In recent years, Thailand has seen the emergence of spectacular health and wellness resorts, and intimate boutique pool villas located in some of the most scenic parts of the Kingdom. Today, wealthy travellers are seeking new "Discover Thainess" experiences. It is not just about friendly people, but what Thailand does really well is luxury with the emerging of Thainess that can be found throughout the Kingdom. From six-star super-deluxe resorts to restaurants fronted by Michelin-star chefs, from laid-back beachside holidays to high adve...
published: 17 Nov 2015
Independence of the Seas FULLY GUIDED SHIP TOUR 2016 (4K Ultra HD)
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- Updated: 01 Aug 2016
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For Cruise Reservations and Quotes: (800) 711-6113 or visit http://www.oceanwidetravel.com Enjoy this informative and fully guided cruise ship tour on Royal ...
For Cruise Reservations and Quotes: (800) 711-6113 or visit http://www.oceanwidetravel.com Enjoy this informative and fully guided cruise ship tour on Royal Caribbean's Independence of the Seas with your cruise specialist Susan Huffman. Contact us to book your next cruise vacation at susan@oceanwidetravel.com, (800)711-6113 or http://www.oceanwidetravel.com.
Hello Future Cruisers! During this video, you'll learn several tips to help you get the most out of your cruise vacation.
To skip to a specific area onboard, please click on your desired location below.
Royal Promenade (Deck 5) 0:40
Pyramid Lounge (Deck 5) 1:08
Connoisseur Club (Deck 5) 1:26
Champagne Bar (Deck 5) 1:55
Guest Services (Deck 5) 2:06
Shore Excursions (Deck 5) 2:11
Main Dining Room (Deck 3) 3:05
Art Auction (Deck 3) 3:35
On Air Club (Deck 3) 3:47
Studio B (Deck 3) 3:56
Main Dining Room (Deck 4) 4:26
Boleros (Deck 4) 4:40
Photo Gallery (Deck 4) 4:50
Casino Royale (Deck 4) 5:00
The Labyrinth (Deck 4) 5:22
Schooner Bar (Deck 4) 5:47
Alhambra Theatre (Deck 3) 6:06
The Labyrinth (Deck 3) 6:36
Conference Center (Deck 2) 7:13
Loyalty Desk - Crown and Anchor Society (Deck 6) 7:29
Library (Deck 7) 7:44
Royal Caribbean Online (Deck 8) 7:58
Giovanni's Table (Deck 11) 8:39
Windjammer (Deck 11) 8:59
Chops Grille (Deck 11) 9:44
Royal Babies and Tots (6 - 36 months) (Deck 12) 10:16
Aquanauts (ages 3 to 5) (Deck 12) 10:30
Challenger's Video Arcade (Deck 12) 10:33
Explorers (ages 6 to 8) (Deck 12) 10:43
Voyagers (ages 9 to 11) (Deck 12) 10:50
Fuel (ages 12 to 17) (Deck 12) 10:55
The Living Room (ages 12 to 17) (Deck 12) 11:17
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FlowRider Surf Simulator (Deck 13) 11:55
Sports Court (Deck 13) 12:11
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Rock Climbing Wall (Deck 13) 12:17
Cloud Nine (Deck 14) 12:57
Olive or Twist (Deck 14) 13:10
Diamond Lounge (Deck 14) 13:36
Skylight Chapel (Deck 15) 13:54
Running Track (Deck 12) 14:14
H20 Zone (Deck 11) 15:15
Main Pool (Deck 11) 15:29
Solarium Pool (Deck 11) 15:49
Fitness Center (Deck 11) 16:14
Vitality at Sea Spa (Deck 12) 16:38
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- published: 01 Aug 2016
- views: 45816
England & Wales Travel Skills
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- Duration: 1:15:19
- Updated: 14 Jun 2016
- views: 13800
Subscribe at http://goo.gl/l6qjuS for more new travel talks! We'll journey to England's coastal communities from windswept and desolate Dartmoor to Portsmouth a...
Subscribe at http://goo.gl/l6qjuS for more new travel talks! We'll journey to England's coastal communities from windswept and desolate Dartmoor to Portsmouth and Brighton. Then turn northeast to Canterbury and its famous tales, and over to Dover's castle and channel crossing that takes you beyond the pond. Download the PDF handout for this class: http://goo.gl/5N85I7
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Subscribe at http://goo.gl/l6qjuS for more new travel talks! We'll journey to England's coastal communities from windswept and desolate Dartmoor to Portsmouth and Brighton. Then turn northeast to Canterbury and its famous tales, and over to Dover's castle and channel crossing that takes you beyond the pond. Download the PDF handout for this class: http://goo.gl/5N85I7
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- published: 14 Jun 2016
- views: 13800
Best of Morocco Documentary 2016
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- Duration: 1:09:43
- Updated: 06 Aug 2016
- views: 102239
This is a documentary about beautiful places in Morocco and amazing culture. It shows different parts of the country, different people, great food and fun activ...
This is a documentary about beautiful places in Morocco and amazing culture. It shows different parts of the country, different people, great food and fun activities. Enjoy!
https://wn.com/Best_Of_Morocco_Documentary_2016
Edinburgh
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- Duration: 25:06
- Updated: 19 Aug 2013
- views: 343856
In this program we explore the cultural heart of Scotland. After rambling through Edinburgh Castle, we experience Scottish literature and Scotch whisky, savor t...
In this program we explore the cultural heart of Scotland. After rambling through Edinburgh Castle, we experience Scottish literature and Scotch whisky, savor the new Scottish cuisine with a local friend, stow away on Her Majesty's yacht Britannia, and check out the new Scottish Parliament.
© 2006 Rick Steves' Europe
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In this program we explore the cultural heart of Scotland. After rambling through Edinburgh Castle, we experience Scottish literature and Scotch whisky, savor the new Scottish cuisine with a local friend, stow away on Her Majesty's yacht Britannia, and check out the new Scottish Parliament.
© 2006 Rick Steves' Europe
- published: 19 Aug 2013
- views: 343856
RSA ANIMATE: Crises of Capitalism
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- Duration: 11:11
- Updated: 28 Jun 2010
- views: 2858260
In this RSA Animate, celebrated academic David Harvey looks beyond capitalism towards a new social order. Can we find a more responsible, just, and humane econo...
In this RSA Animate, celebrated academic David Harvey looks beyond capitalism towards a new social order. Can we find a more responsible, just, and humane economic system?
The RSA is a 258 year-old charity devoted to creating social progress and spreading world-changing ideas. For more information about our research, RSA Animates, free events programme and 27,000 strong fellowship.
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Animation by Cognitive Media. Andrew Park, the mastermind behind the Animate series and everyone's favourite hairy hand, discusses their appeal and success in his blog post, 'Talk to the hand': http://www.thersa.org/talk-to-the-hand/
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In this RSA Animate, celebrated academic David Harvey looks beyond capitalism towards a new social order. Can we find a more responsible, just, and humane economic system?
The RSA is a 258 year-old charity devoted to creating social progress and spreading world-changing ideas. For more information about our research, RSA Animates, free events programme and 27,000 strong fellowship.
Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RSAEvents
Like the RSA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rsaeventsofficial/
Listen to RSA podcasts: https://soundcloud.com/the_rsa
See RSA Events behind the scenes: https://instagram.com/rsa_events/
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Produced and edited by Abi Stephenson, RSA.
Animation by Cognitive Media. Andrew Park, the mastermind behind the Animate series and everyone's favourite hairy hand, discusses their appeal and success in his blog post, 'Talk to the hand': http://www.thersa.org/talk-to-the-hand/
- published: 28 Jun 2010
- views: 2858260
Brighton, England: Royal Pavilion and Pier
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- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 22 Feb 2017
- views: 376
More info about travel to Brighton: https://www.ricksteves.com/europe/england/brighton Brighton is south England's Coney Island, and Brighton Pier is the place ...
More info about travel to Brighton: https://www.ricksteves.com/europe/england/brighton Brighton is south England's Coney Island, and Brighton Pier is the place to go for a fix of junk food and dizzying rides. Just a couple blocks down is Brighton's Royal Pavilion, with its eccentric exterior that recalls the city's flamboyant heyday as a vacation spot for King George IV.
At http://www.ricksteves.com, you'll find money-saving travel tips, small-group tours, guidebooks, TV shows, radio programs, podcasts, and more on this destination.
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More info about travel to Brighton: https://www.ricksteves.com/europe/england/brighton Brighton is south England's Coney Island, and Brighton Pier is the place to go for a fix of junk food and dizzying rides. Just a couple blocks down is Brighton's Royal Pavilion, with its eccentric exterior that recalls the city's flamboyant heyday as a vacation spot for King George IV.
At http://www.ricksteves.com, you'll find money-saving travel tips, small-group tours, guidebooks, TV shows, radio programs, podcasts, and more on this destination.
- published: 22 Feb 2017
- views: 376
Drowned landscapes - Caroline Wickham-Jones | The Royal Society
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- Duration: 3:35
- Updated: 08 May 2012
- views: 1451
The only lands on Earth that have not been extensively explored are those that have been lost to the oceans. After the end of the last Ice Age extensive landsca...
The only lands on Earth that have not been extensively explored are those that have been lost to the oceans. After the end of the last Ice Age extensive landscapes that had once been home to thousands of people were inundated by the sea. Although scientists predicted their existence for many years, exploration has only recently become a reality.
Caroline Wickham-Jones from the Drowned landscapes exhibit taking part in the 2012 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition discusses her work.
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The only lands on Earth that have not been extensively explored are those that have been lost to the oceans. After the end of the last Ice Age extensive landscapes that had once been home to thousands of people were inundated by the sea. Although scientists predicted their existence for many years, exploration has only recently become a reality.
Caroline Wickham-Jones from the Drowned landscapes exhibit taking part in the 2012 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition discusses her work.
- published: 08 May 2012
- views: 1451
The Royal Butler's Etiquette Guide Online Series
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- Duration: 1:36
- Updated: 15 Sep 2016
- views: 734
For the full sound video, please visit The Royal Butler's Etiquette Guide on youtube at YouTube.com/GrantHarrold
For the full sound video, please visit The Royal Butler's Etiquette Guide on youtube at YouTube.com/GrantHarrold
https://wn.com/The_Royal_Butler's_Etiquette_Guide_Online_Series
Copenhagen
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- Duration: 24:57
- Updated: 19 Aug 2013
- views: 396594
As we get to know Copenhagen, we'll discover reminders of its Viking history and see reflections today of its proudly independent ways. We'll stroll down Europe...
As we get to know Copenhagen, we'll discover reminders of its Viking history and see reflections today of its proudly independent ways. We'll stroll down Europe's first great pedestrian boulevard, ogle crown jewels in the palace treasury, and take a bike ride through an inspirational hippie squatter community, finishing at Copenhagen's full-time carnival, Tivoli Gardens.
© 2008 Rick Steves' Europe
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As we get to know Copenhagen, we'll discover reminders of its Viking history and see reflections today of its proudly independent ways. We'll stroll down Europe's first great pedestrian boulevard, ogle crown jewels in the palace treasury, and take a bike ride through an inspirational hippie squatter community, finishing at Copenhagen's full-time carnival, Tivoli Gardens.
© 2008 Rick Steves' Europe
- published: 19 Aug 2013
- views: 396594
Amazing Thailand Luxury: Where Life Rules Everything
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- Duration: 5:30
- Updated: 17 Nov 2015
- views: 38210
WWW.LUXURYSOCIETYASIA.COM
Thailand has always been a destination of choice; there is a myriad of attractions from its islands and beaches to the cuisine and bi...
WWW.LUXURYSOCIETYASIA.COM
Thailand has always been a destination of choice; there is a myriad of attractions from its islands and beaches to the cuisine and big city vibe of Bangkok. The Kingdom also has a long tradition of catering to luxury travellers. In recent years, Thailand has seen the emergence of spectacular health and wellness resorts, and intimate boutique pool villas located in some of the most scenic parts of the Kingdom.
Today, wealthy travellers are seeking new "Discover Thainess" experiences. It is not just about friendly people, but what Thailand does really well is luxury with the emerging of Thainess that can be found throughout the Kingdom. From six-star super-deluxe resorts to restaurants fronted by Michelin-star chefs, from laid-back beachside holidays to high adventure, and from shopping breaks to romantic cruises, it has it all.
The Amazing Thailand Luxury Travel guide is part of our continuing effort to help make Thailand the first-choice destination. The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is proud to have teamed up with Luxury Society Asia and its team of distinguished writers to come up with several lists and ideas to help you enjoy Thailand’s take on the luxury lifestyle.
It puts the best experiences in the Kingdom all in one place. From the finest luxury hotels and travel experiences to exclusive destinations, from resorts, spas and luxury cruises for a family vacation to a romantic getaway… plus the finest restaurants and shopping malls that Thailand has to offer.
We look forward to welcoming you, along with your family and friends for what could be the holiday of a lifetime.
WWW.LUXURYSOCIETYTHAILAND.COM
WWW.LUXURYSOCIETYASIA.COM
https://wn.com/Amazing_Thailand_Luxury_Where_Life_Rules_Everything
WWW.LUXURYSOCIETYASIA.COM
Thailand has always been a destination of choice; there is a myriad of attractions from its islands and beaches to the cuisine and big city vibe of Bangkok. The Kingdom also has a long tradition of catering to luxury travellers. In recent years, Thailand has seen the emergence of spectacular health and wellness resorts, and intimate boutique pool villas located in some of the most scenic parts of the Kingdom.
Today, wealthy travellers are seeking new "Discover Thainess" experiences. It is not just about friendly people, but what Thailand does really well is luxury with the emerging of Thainess that can be found throughout the Kingdom. From six-star super-deluxe resorts to restaurants fronted by Michelin-star chefs, from laid-back beachside holidays to high adventure, and from shopping breaks to romantic cruises, it has it all.
The Amazing Thailand Luxury Travel guide is part of our continuing effort to help make Thailand the first-choice destination. The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is proud to have teamed up with Luxury Society Asia and its team of distinguished writers to come up with several lists and ideas to help you enjoy Thailand’s take on the luxury lifestyle.
It puts the best experiences in the Kingdom all in one place. From the finest luxury hotels and travel experiences to exclusive destinations, from resorts, spas and luxury cruises for a family vacation to a romantic getaway… plus the finest restaurants and shopping malls that Thailand has to offer.
We look forward to welcoming you, along with your family and friends for what could be the holiday of a lifetime.
WWW.LUXURYSOCIETYTHAILAND.COM
WWW.LUXURYSOCIETYASIA.COM
- published: 17 Nov 2015
- views: 38210
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Royal Society of Literature
The Royal Society of Literature is a learned society and the "senior literary organisation in Britain".It was founded in 1820 by King George IV to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".The society's first president was Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's .The society maintains its current level of about 500 Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature: generally 14 new fellows are elected annually, who are accorded the privilege of using the post-nominal letters FRSL. This channel is dedicated to make Wikipedia, one of the biggest knowledge databases in the world available to people with limited vision. Article available under a Creative Commons license Image source in video
published: 31 Aug 2016 -
Science Stories - Unexpected
We need mathematical help to tell the difference between a real discovery and the illusion of one. Fellow of the Royal Society and future President of the Royal Statistical Society, Sir David Spiegelhalter visits Dr Nicole Janz to discuss reproducibility in scientific publications.
published: 22 Dec 2015 -
Perceptions of Madness: understanding mental illness through art, literature and drama
Speaker(s): Dr Sarah Carr, Paul Farmer, Nathan Filer, Dr John McGowan Chair: Professor Martin Knapp Recorded on 25 February 2015. How mental illness is portrayed in art, literature and on TV can have a positive or negative effect on how the public perceives mental ill health. Representations of people with mental health problems can range from the mad psychotic criminal to people within their daily lives dealing with depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. This panel discussion explores how such presentations of mental illness can affect public understanding of mental ill health with insights from research and personal experiences. Sarah Carr (@SchrebersSister) has a background as a senior research and policy analyst in mental health and social care, with a focus on service use...
published: 05 Mar 2015 -
A Literate, Literary, and Illuminating Account of the Great War (2000)
When he first entered college, Fussell intended a career in journalism. His plans changed when his sergeant was killed beside him in combat, about which he wrote in his memoir Doing Battle (1996).[12] In his writings he opposed war, promoting instead a vision of rational enlightenment. He pointed to what he saw as the hypocrisy of governmental speech and the corruption of popular culture.[5] His published thesis, Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England, was developed into Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965), a popular textbook for understanding poetry.[13] Samuel Johnson and The Life of Writing (1971)[14] offered an analysis of the work of the English lexicographer, Samuel Johnson. The Anti-Egotist, Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters was a study of the life and work of friend and colle...
published: 04 Nov 2016 -
The Gene's Eye View of Creation: The Selfish Cooperator
Dawkins is Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He is considered to be one of the leading figures in modern evolutionary biology and has written extensively about evolution and science. Dawkins' first book The Selfish Gene (1976) was an immediate bestseller. In 1987, he won both the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize for The Blind Watchmaker (1986) (the television film of the book won the Sci-Tech Prize for Best Science Programme). His numerous writings include studies of evolution, creationism, and genetics. In his most recent book Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1998), Dawkins examines the connections among science, mysticism, and human nature, and claims that "science, ...
published: 14 Aug 2012 -
Behaving badly
In partnership with the Royal Society, a discussion with John Banville, James Blair, Terrie Moffitt and Fay Weldon. Chair: Professor Uta Frith FRS Filmed at The Royal Society, London on Mon 15 Oct 2007 6.30pm-8.00pm
published: 13 Aug 2014 -
Richard Sennett: The Architecture of Cooperation
Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. Richard Sennett has explored how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social ...
published: 03 Jan 2013 -
THE WRITER AND THE WORLD: VS NAIPAUL
One of the greatest living writers, Nobel Prize-winning VS Naipaul, in conversation with DLF director Ahsan Akbar about his literary work Fifty five years ago, A House for Mr Biswas placed Sir Vidia as one of the youngest fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. Described by TIME magazine as ‘a master of the modern novel,’ he produced literary masterpieces such as In a Free State, Guerrillas, An Area of Darkness, The Mimic Men, The Enigma of Arrival, A Bend in the River, Among the Believers and many other modern classics in both fiction and nonfiction. This is Sir Vidia’s first ever trip to Bangladesh and he comes as a guest of honour of Dhaka Lit Fest.
published: 27 Nov 2016 -
Theology and the tragic: A debate revisited. A lecture by the Rt Revd Rowan Williams
The British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted this Lecture in Religious Studies on Dec 1 2015 in London. The lecture was delivered by the Rt Revd and Rt Hon the Lord (Rowan) Williams of Oystermouth Chaired by: Professor Philip Alexander FBA, University of Manchester Studies of tragic drama still refer from time to time to the argument that a theological/ religious worldview is inherently anti-tragic. The debate has drawn in figures as diverse as Helen Gardner, George Steiner and Terry Eagleton, as well as theologians like Donald MacKinnon. Recent studies of tragedy have complicated the issue further by questioning essentialist models of tragic drama or narrative, while a growing number of theologians have made use of dramatic categories. This lecture explored how the ...
published: 03 Dec 2015 -
Writers On Writing | Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins was first catapulted to fame with his iconic work The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of bestselling books. Part one of his autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder, was published in 2013. Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the Royal Society of Literature Award (1987), the Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society (1990), the International Cosmos Prize for Achievement in Human Science (1997), the Kistler Prize (2001), the Shakespeare Prize (2005), the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2006), the Galaxy British Book Awards Author of the Year Award (2007), the Deschner Prize (2007) and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest (2...
published: 12 May 2016
Royal Society of Literature
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- Updated: 31 Aug 2016
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The Royal Society of Literature is a learned society and the "senior literary organisation in Britain".It was founded in 1820 by King George IV to "reward liter...
The Royal Society of Literature is a learned society and the "senior literary organisation in Britain".It was founded in 1820 by King George IV to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".The society's first president was Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's .The society maintains its current level of about 500 Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature: generally 14 new fellows are elected annually, who are accorded the privilege of using the post-nominal letters FRSL.
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The Royal Society of Literature is a learned society and the "senior literary organisation in Britain".It was founded in 1820 by King George IV to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".The society's first president was Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's .The society maintains its current level of about 500 Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature: generally 14 new fellows are elected annually, who are accorded the privilege of using the post-nominal letters FRSL.
This channel is dedicated to make Wikipedia, one of the biggest knowledge databases in the world available to people with limited vision.
Article available under a Creative Commons license
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- published: 31 Aug 2016
- views: 0
Science Stories - Unexpected
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- Duration: 5:19
- Updated: 22 Dec 2015
- views: 4430
We need mathematical help to tell the difference between a real discovery and the illusion of one. Fellow of the Royal Society and future President of the Royal...
We need mathematical help to tell the difference between a real discovery and the illusion of one. Fellow of the Royal Society and future President of the Royal Statistical Society, Sir David Spiegelhalter visits Dr Nicole Janz to discuss reproducibility in scientific publications.
https://wn.com/Science_Stories_Unexpected
We need mathematical help to tell the difference between a real discovery and the illusion of one. Fellow of the Royal Society and future President of the Royal Statistical Society, Sir David Spiegelhalter visits Dr Nicole Janz to discuss reproducibility in scientific publications.
- published: 22 Dec 2015
- views: 4430
Perceptions of Madness: understanding mental illness through art, literature and drama
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- Duration: 1:29:30
- Updated: 05 Mar 2015
- views: 2342
Speaker(s): Dr Sarah Carr, Paul Farmer, Nathan Filer, Dr John McGowan
Chair: Professor Martin Knapp
Recorded on 25 February 2015.
How mental illness is portr...
Speaker(s): Dr Sarah Carr, Paul Farmer, Nathan Filer, Dr John McGowan
Chair: Professor Martin Knapp
Recorded on 25 February 2015.
How mental illness is portrayed in art, literature and on TV can have a positive or negative effect on how the public perceives mental ill health. Representations of people with mental health problems can range from the mad psychotic criminal to people within their daily lives dealing with depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. This panel discussion explores how such presentations of mental illness can affect public understanding of mental ill health with insights from research and personal experiences.
Sarah Carr (@SchrebersSister) has a background as a senior research and policy analyst in mental health and social care, with a focus on service user participation, personalisation and equality issues. She runs her own independent mental health and social care knowledge consultancy. Most recently she worked for the Social Care Institute of Excellence (SCIE) as a Senior Research Analyst and was seconded to the role of Joint Head of Participation. She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute for Applied Social Science, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham; a Visiting Fellow, Social Policy and Social Work, University of York and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. As Co Vice-Chair of the National Survivor and User Network (NSUN) and a member of the editorial board of the journal Disability and Society, Sarah has a particular interest in mental health issues and is a long term user of services.
Paul Farmer (@paulfarmermind) has been Chief Executive of Mind, the leading mental health charity working in England and Wales, since May 2006. Paul is Chair of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), the leading voice of the UK’s charity and social enterprise sector. Paul is also a trustee at Lloyds Bank Foundation which invests in charities supporting people to break out of disadvantage at critical points in their lives. He is also Chair of the NHS England Mental Health Patient Safety Board. Paul received an honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of East London and was chosen as most admired charity Chief Executive in the Third Sector Most Admired Charities Awards 2013.
Nathan Filer (@nathanfiler) is the author of The Shock of the Fall, winner of the Costa Book of the Year (2013), the Betty Trask Prize (2014), and Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the National Book Awards (2014). It has been translated into twenty-seven languages. He worked as a mental health nurse for many years and in 2014 was named as a Nursing Times’ Nursing Leader for “influencing the way the public thinks about mental illness”. He lectures in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
John McGowan (@cccuapppsy) is Clinical Psychologist. Following many years working in acute mental health wards in the NHS, he is now works on the Clinical Psychology Training scheme at the Salomons Centre for Applied Psychology in Kent. As well as conducting research into self-harm and suicide, he is currently editing a new British Psychological Society Report on Depression. He has written for The Guardian, the Health Service Journal and blogs regularly at Discursive of Tunbridge Wells. He will be speaking on 'Psychos, Cuckoo's Nests and Silver Linings: Madness in the Movies'.
Martin Knapp is Director of PSSRU and a Professor of Social Policy at LSE. He is also Director of the NIHR School for Social Care Research.
The Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) is one of the leading social care research groups, not just in the UK, but internationally. The LSE branch of PSSRU sits within LSE Health and Social Care (@LSEHSC) in the Department of Social Policy (@LSESocialPolicy).
This event forms part of the LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2015, taking place from Monday 23 - Saturday 28 February 2015, with the theme 'Foundations'.
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Speaker(s): Dr Sarah Carr, Paul Farmer, Nathan Filer, Dr John McGowan
Chair: Professor Martin Knapp
Recorded on 25 February 2015.
How mental illness is portrayed in art, literature and on TV can have a positive or negative effect on how the public perceives mental ill health. Representations of people with mental health problems can range from the mad psychotic criminal to people within their daily lives dealing with depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. This panel discussion explores how such presentations of mental illness can affect public understanding of mental ill health with insights from research and personal experiences.
Sarah Carr (@SchrebersSister) has a background as a senior research and policy analyst in mental health and social care, with a focus on service user participation, personalisation and equality issues. She runs her own independent mental health and social care knowledge consultancy. Most recently she worked for the Social Care Institute of Excellence (SCIE) as a Senior Research Analyst and was seconded to the role of Joint Head of Participation. She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute for Applied Social Science, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham; a Visiting Fellow, Social Policy and Social Work, University of York and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. As Co Vice-Chair of the National Survivor and User Network (NSUN) and a member of the editorial board of the journal Disability and Society, Sarah has a particular interest in mental health issues and is a long term user of services.
Paul Farmer (@paulfarmermind) has been Chief Executive of Mind, the leading mental health charity working in England and Wales, since May 2006. Paul is Chair of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), the leading voice of the UK’s charity and social enterprise sector. Paul is also a trustee at Lloyds Bank Foundation which invests in charities supporting people to break out of disadvantage at critical points in their lives. He is also Chair of the NHS England Mental Health Patient Safety Board. Paul received an honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of East London and was chosen as most admired charity Chief Executive in the Third Sector Most Admired Charities Awards 2013.
Nathan Filer (@nathanfiler) is the author of The Shock of the Fall, winner of the Costa Book of the Year (2013), the Betty Trask Prize (2014), and Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the National Book Awards (2014). It has been translated into twenty-seven languages. He worked as a mental health nurse for many years and in 2014 was named as a Nursing Times’ Nursing Leader for “influencing the way the public thinks about mental illness”. He lectures in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
John McGowan (@cccuapppsy) is Clinical Psychologist. Following many years working in acute mental health wards in the NHS, he is now works on the Clinical Psychology Training scheme at the Salomons Centre for Applied Psychology in Kent. As well as conducting research into self-harm and suicide, he is currently editing a new British Psychological Society Report on Depression. He has written for The Guardian, the Health Service Journal and blogs regularly at Discursive of Tunbridge Wells. He will be speaking on 'Psychos, Cuckoo's Nests and Silver Linings: Madness in the Movies'.
Martin Knapp is Director of PSSRU and a Professor of Social Policy at LSE. He is also Director of the NIHR School for Social Care Research.
The Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) is one of the leading social care research groups, not just in the UK, but internationally. The LSE branch of PSSRU sits within LSE Health and Social Care (@LSEHSC) in the Department of Social Policy (@LSESocialPolicy).
This event forms part of the LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2015, taking place from Monday 23 - Saturday 28 February 2015, with the theme 'Foundations'.
- published: 05 Mar 2015
- views: 2342
A Literate, Literary, and Illuminating Account of the Great War (2000)
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- Duration: 1:03:48
- Updated: 04 Nov 2016
- views: 86
When he first entered college, Fussell intended a career in journalism. His plans changed when his sergeant was killed beside him in combat, about which he wrot...
When he first entered college, Fussell intended a career in journalism. His plans changed when his sergeant was killed beside him in combat, about which he wrote in his memoir Doing Battle (1996).[12] In his writings he opposed war, promoting instead a vision of rational enlightenment. He pointed to what he saw as the hypocrisy of governmental speech and the corruption of popular culture.[5]
His published thesis, Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England, was developed into Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965), a popular textbook for understanding poetry.[13] Samuel Johnson and The Life of Writing (1971)[14] offered an analysis of the work of the English lexicographer, Samuel Johnson. The Anti-Egotist, Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters was a study of the life and work of friend and colleague, Kingsley Amis.[15]
The award-winning The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)[16] was a cultural and literary analysis of the impact of World War I on the development of modern literature and modern literary conventions.[1] John Keegan said its effect was "revolutionary", in that it showed how literature could be a vehicle for expressing the experience of large groups.[1] "What Paul did was go to the literary treatments of the war by 20 or 30 participants and turn them into an encapsulation of a collective European experience". (John Keegan)[1] Joseph Heller called it "the best book I know of about world war one".
Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars (1980) was a pioneering academic examination of travel literature which examined the travel books of Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence and Robert Byron.[1]
Fussell stated that he relished the inevitable controversy of Class: A Guide Through the American Status System (1983)[17] and indulged his increasing public status as a loved or hated "curmudgeon"[1] in the rant called BAD: or, The Dumbing of America (1991). In between, Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays (1988)[18] confirmed his war against government and military doublespeak and prepared the way for Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989).[19] The epiphany of his earlier essay, "My War", found full expression in his memoir Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic (1996), "My Adolescent illusions, largely intact to that moment, fell away all at once, and I suddenly knew I was not and never would be in a world that was reasonable or just".[5] The last book by Fussell published while he was alive, The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–45 (2003)[20] was once again concerned with the experience of combat in World War II.
Fussell's 1975 literary study The Great War and Modern Memory won the National Book Award in category Arts and Letters.[21] the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa.[9] It was ranked number 75 in the Modern Library's Board's List of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century.[22]
He was elected in 1977 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[23]
He won the 2005 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for The Boys' Crusade.[citation needed] Fussell was one of several veterans interviewed in the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The War in 2007, and in the 1999 ABC-produced documentary The Century: America's Time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fussell
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When he first entered college, Fussell intended a career in journalism. His plans changed when his sergeant was killed beside him in combat, about which he wrote in his memoir Doing Battle (1996).[12] In his writings he opposed war, promoting instead a vision of rational enlightenment. He pointed to what he saw as the hypocrisy of governmental speech and the corruption of popular culture.[5]
His published thesis, Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England, was developed into Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965), a popular textbook for understanding poetry.[13] Samuel Johnson and The Life of Writing (1971)[14] offered an analysis of the work of the English lexicographer, Samuel Johnson. The Anti-Egotist, Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters was a study of the life and work of friend and colleague, Kingsley Amis.[15]
The award-winning The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)[16] was a cultural and literary analysis of the impact of World War I on the development of modern literature and modern literary conventions.[1] John Keegan said its effect was "revolutionary", in that it showed how literature could be a vehicle for expressing the experience of large groups.[1] "What Paul did was go to the literary treatments of the war by 20 or 30 participants and turn them into an encapsulation of a collective European experience". (John Keegan)[1] Joseph Heller called it "the best book I know of about world war one".
Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars (1980) was a pioneering academic examination of travel literature which examined the travel books of Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence and Robert Byron.[1]
Fussell stated that he relished the inevitable controversy of Class: A Guide Through the American Status System (1983)[17] and indulged his increasing public status as a loved or hated "curmudgeon"[1] in the rant called BAD: or, The Dumbing of America (1991). In between, Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays (1988)[18] confirmed his war against government and military doublespeak and prepared the way for Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989).[19] The epiphany of his earlier essay, "My War", found full expression in his memoir Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic (1996), "My Adolescent illusions, largely intact to that moment, fell away all at once, and I suddenly knew I was not and never would be in a world that was reasonable or just".[5] The last book by Fussell published while he was alive, The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–45 (2003)[20] was once again concerned with the experience of combat in World War II.
Fussell's 1975 literary study The Great War and Modern Memory won the National Book Award in category Arts and Letters.[21] the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa.[9] It was ranked number 75 in the Modern Library's Board's List of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century.[22]
He was elected in 1977 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[23]
He won the 2005 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for The Boys' Crusade.[citation needed] Fussell was one of several veterans interviewed in the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The War in 2007, and in the 1999 ABC-produced documentary The Century: America's Time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fussell
- published: 04 Nov 2016
- views: 86
The Gene's Eye View of Creation: The Selfish Cooperator
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- Duration: 1:30:08
- Updated: 14 Aug 2012
- views: 1949
Dawkins is Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He is considered to be one of the leading figures in modern evolutionar...
Dawkins is Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He is considered to be one of the leading figures in modern evolutionary biology and has written extensively about evolution and science. Dawkins' first book The Selfish Gene (1976) was an immediate bestseller. In 1987, he won both the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize for The Blind Watchmaker (1986) (the television film of the book won the Sci-Tech Prize for Best Science Programme). His numerous writings include studies of evolution, creationism, and genetics. In his most recent book Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1998), Dawkins examines the connections among science, mysticism, and human nature, and claims that "science, at its best, should leave room for poetry." In addition to receiving the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize, Dawkins's awards and accomplishments include the 1989 Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London and the 1990 Royal Society Michael Faraday Award for the furtherance of the public understanding of science. In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Dawkins was born in 1941 in Nairobi. His family returned to England in 1949. Dawkins completed his undergraduate and graduate work at Oxford under the instruction of Nobel Prize-winning biologist Niko Tinbergen. After a two-year stint between 1967 and 1969, as Assistant Professor of Zoology at UC Berkeley, he returned to Oxford where he became a fellow at New College, where he still teaches.
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Dawkins is Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He is considered to be one of the leading figures in modern evolutionary biology and has written extensively about evolution and science. Dawkins' first book The Selfish Gene (1976) was an immediate bestseller. In 1987, he won both the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize for The Blind Watchmaker (1986) (the television film of the book won the Sci-Tech Prize for Best Science Programme). His numerous writings include studies of evolution, creationism, and genetics. In his most recent book Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1998), Dawkins examines the connections among science, mysticism, and human nature, and claims that "science, at its best, should leave room for poetry." In addition to receiving the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize, Dawkins's awards and accomplishments include the 1989 Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London and the 1990 Royal Society Michael Faraday Award for the furtherance of the public understanding of science. In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Dawkins was born in 1941 in Nairobi. His family returned to England in 1949. Dawkins completed his undergraduate and graduate work at Oxford under the instruction of Nobel Prize-winning biologist Niko Tinbergen. After a two-year stint between 1967 and 1969, as Assistant Professor of Zoology at UC Berkeley, he returned to Oxford where he became a fellow at New College, where he still teaches.
- published: 14 Aug 2012
- views: 1949
Behaving badly
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- Duration: 1:29:05
- Updated: 13 Aug 2014
- views: 89
In partnership with the Royal Society, a discussion with John Banville, James Blair, Terrie Moffitt and Fay Weldon. Chair: Professor Uta Frith FRS
Filmed at The...
In partnership with the Royal Society, a discussion with John Banville, James Blair, Terrie Moffitt and Fay Weldon. Chair: Professor Uta Frith FRS
Filmed at The Royal Society, London on Mon 15 Oct 2007 6.30pm-8.00pm
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In partnership with the Royal Society, a discussion with John Banville, James Blair, Terrie Moffitt and Fay Weldon. Chair: Professor Uta Frith FRS
Filmed at The Royal Society, London on Mon 15 Oct 2007 6.30pm-8.00pm
- published: 13 Aug 2014
- views: 89
Richard Sennett: The Architecture of Cooperation
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- Duration: 1:16:54
- Updated: 03 Jan 2013
- views: 527
Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He...
Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
Richard Sennett has explored how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory. As a social analyst he continues the pragmatist tradition begun by William James and John Dewey.
His first book, The Uses of Disorder, 1970 looked at how personal identity takes form in the modern city. He then studied how working-class identities are shaped in modern society, in The Hidden Injuries of Class, written with Jonathan Cobb. 1972 A study of the public realm of cities, The Fall of Public Man, appeared in 1977; at the end of this decade of writing, Mr. Sennett sought to account the philosophic implications of this work in Authority 1980.
At this point he took a break from sociology, composing three novels: The Frog who Dared to Croak 1982, An Evening of Brahms 1984 and Palais Royal 1987. He then returned to urban studies with two books, The Conscience of the Eye, 1990, a work focusing on urban design, and Flesh and Stone 1992, a general historical study of how bodily experience has been shaped by the evolution of cities.
In the mid 1990s, as the work-world of modern capitalism began to alter quickly and radically, Professor Sennett began a project charting its personal consequences for workers, a project which has carried him up to the present day. The first of these studies, The Corrosion of Character, 1998 is an ethnographic account of how middle-level employees make sense of the "new economy." The second in the series, Respect in a World of Inequality, 2002} charts the effects of new ways of working on the welfare state; a third, The Culture of the New Capitalism, 2006 provides an over-view of change. Most recently, Mr. Sennett has explored more positive aspects of labor in The Craftsman 2008, and in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation 2012.
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Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
Richard Sennett has explored how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory. As a social analyst he continues the pragmatist tradition begun by William James and John Dewey.
His first book, The Uses of Disorder, 1970 looked at how personal identity takes form in the modern city. He then studied how working-class identities are shaped in modern society, in The Hidden Injuries of Class, written with Jonathan Cobb. 1972 A study of the public realm of cities, The Fall of Public Man, appeared in 1977; at the end of this decade of writing, Mr. Sennett sought to account the philosophic implications of this work in Authority 1980.
At this point he took a break from sociology, composing three novels: The Frog who Dared to Croak 1982, An Evening of Brahms 1984 and Palais Royal 1987. He then returned to urban studies with two books, The Conscience of the Eye, 1990, a work focusing on urban design, and Flesh and Stone 1992, a general historical study of how bodily experience has been shaped by the evolution of cities.
In the mid 1990s, as the work-world of modern capitalism began to alter quickly and radically, Professor Sennett began a project charting its personal consequences for workers, a project which has carried him up to the present day. The first of these studies, The Corrosion of Character, 1998 is an ethnographic account of how middle-level employees make sense of the "new economy." The second in the series, Respect in a World of Inequality, 2002} charts the effects of new ways of working on the welfare state; a third, The Culture of the New Capitalism, 2006 provides an over-view of change. Most recently, Mr. Sennett has explored more positive aspects of labor in The Craftsman 2008, and in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation 2012.
- published: 03 Jan 2013
- views: 527
THE WRITER AND THE WORLD: VS NAIPAUL
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- Duration: 51:29
- Updated: 27 Nov 2016
- views: 116
One of the greatest living writers, Nobel Prize-winning VS Naipaul, in conversation with DLF director Ahsan Akbar about his literary work
Fifty five years ago, ...
One of the greatest living writers, Nobel Prize-winning VS Naipaul, in conversation with DLF director Ahsan Akbar about his literary work
Fifty five years ago, A House for Mr Biswas placed Sir Vidia as one of the youngest fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. Described by TIME magazine as ‘a master of the modern novel,’ he produced literary masterpieces such as In a Free State, Guerrillas, An Area of Darkness, The Mimic Men, The Enigma of Arrival, A Bend in the River, Among the Believers and many other modern classics in both fiction and nonfiction. This is Sir Vidia’s first ever trip to Bangladesh and he comes as a guest of honour of Dhaka Lit Fest.
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One of the greatest living writers, Nobel Prize-winning VS Naipaul, in conversation with DLF director Ahsan Akbar about his literary work
Fifty five years ago, A House for Mr Biswas placed Sir Vidia as one of the youngest fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. Described by TIME magazine as ‘a master of the modern novel,’ he produced literary masterpieces such as In a Free State, Guerrillas, An Area of Darkness, The Mimic Men, The Enigma of Arrival, A Bend in the River, Among the Believers and many other modern classics in both fiction and nonfiction. This is Sir Vidia’s first ever trip to Bangladesh and he comes as a guest of honour of Dhaka Lit Fest.
- published: 27 Nov 2016
- views: 116
Theology and the tragic: A debate revisited. A lecture by the Rt Revd Rowan Williams
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- Duration: 1:10:25
- Updated: 03 Dec 2015
- views: 3106
The British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted this Lecture in Religious Studies on Dec 1 2015 in London.
The lecture was delivered by the Rt...
The British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted this Lecture in Religious Studies on Dec 1 2015 in London.
The lecture was delivered by the Rt Revd and Rt Hon the Lord (Rowan) Williams of Oystermouth
Chaired by: Professor Philip Alexander FBA, University of Manchester
Studies of tragic drama still refer from time to time to the argument that a theological/ religious worldview is inherently anti-tragic. The debate has drawn in figures as diverse as Helen Gardner, George Steiner and Terry Eagleton, as well as theologians like Donald MacKinnon. Recent studies of tragedy have complicated the issue further by questioning essentialist models of tragic drama or narrative, while a growing number of theologians have made use of dramatic categories. This lecture explored how the discussion has moved on, and how newer accounts of the tragic suggest different theological possibilities.
About the speaker:
Rowan Williams is Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. He is the author of a number of books on the frontiers of theology, philosophy and literary studies, as well as several volumes of poetry. He is a Fellow of the Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.
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The British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted this Lecture in Religious Studies on Dec 1 2015 in London.
The lecture was delivered by the Rt Revd and Rt Hon the Lord (Rowan) Williams of Oystermouth
Chaired by: Professor Philip Alexander FBA, University of Manchester
Studies of tragic drama still refer from time to time to the argument that a theological/ religious worldview is inherently anti-tragic. The debate has drawn in figures as diverse as Helen Gardner, George Steiner and Terry Eagleton, as well as theologians like Donald MacKinnon. Recent studies of tragedy have complicated the issue further by questioning essentialist models of tragic drama or narrative, while a growing number of theologians have made use of dramatic categories. This lecture explored how the discussion has moved on, and how newer accounts of the tragic suggest different theological possibilities.
About the speaker:
Rowan Williams is Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. He is the author of a number of books on the frontiers of theology, philosophy and literary studies, as well as several volumes of poetry. He is a Fellow of the Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.
- published: 03 Dec 2015
- views: 3106
Writers On Writing | Richard Dawkins
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- Duration: 5:31
- Updated: 12 May 2016
- views: 290
Richard Dawkins was first catapulted to fame with his iconic work The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of bestselling books. Part one of his autobi...
Richard Dawkins was first catapulted to fame with his iconic work The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of bestselling books. Part one of his autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder, was published in 2013.
Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the Royal Society of Literature Award (1987), the Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society (1990), the International Cosmos Prize for Achievement in Human Science (1997), the Kistler Prize (2001), the Shakespeare Prize (2005), the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2006), the Galaxy British Book Awards Author of the Year Award (2007), the Deschner Prize (2007) and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest (2009). He retired from his position as Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University in 2008 and remains a Fellow of New College.
In 2012, scientists studying fish in Sri Lanka created Dawkinsia as a new genus name, in recognition of his contribution to the public understanding of evolutionary science. In the same year, Richard Dawkins appeared in the BBC Four television series Beautiful Minds, revealing how he came to write The Selfish Gene and speaking about some of the events covered in this autobiography.
In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world's top thinker in Prospect magazine's poll of over 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.
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Richard Dawkins was first catapulted to fame with his iconic work The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of bestselling books. Part one of his autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder, was published in 2013.
Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the Royal Society of Literature Award (1987), the Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society (1990), the International Cosmos Prize for Achievement in Human Science (1997), the Kistler Prize (2001), the Shakespeare Prize (2005), the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2006), the Galaxy British Book Awards Author of the Year Award (2007), the Deschner Prize (2007) and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest (2009). He retired from his position as Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University in 2008 and remains a Fellow of New College.
In 2012, scientists studying fish in Sri Lanka created Dawkinsia as a new genus name, in recognition of his contribution to the public understanding of evolutionary science. In the same year, Richard Dawkins appeared in the BBC Four television series Beautiful Minds, revealing how he came to write The Selfish Gene and speaking about some of the events covered in this autobiography.
In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world's top thinker in Prospect magazine's poll of over 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.
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Book Studio 16 is your home for the best literary content on YouTube. Enjoy our library of exclusive content featuring interviews with your favorite authors, cover reveals, book trailers and more.
- published: 12 May 2016
- views: 290
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The Praise Singer Audiobook - Mary Renault
Set in sixth-century Greece at the time of the Tyrants, the Persian Wars, and a great flowering of the arts, this novel takes the form of Simonides' memoirs, written in retirement in Sicily. The author was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and she also wrote "The King Must Die".
published: 06 Jul 2016 -
Frank Islam Athenaeum Symposia: Aminatta Forna
Award–winning novelist, Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland and raised in Sierra Leone and Britain. Forna is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown. Focusing on her illuminating book, The Devil That Danced on the Water, a memoir of her dissident father and her life in Sierra Leone, Forna addresses politics in Sierra Leone, her writing life, and the relationship between the two.
published: 03 May 2017 -
Westminster Abbey - The Sacred, the Profane and the Desecrated - Eric Symes Abbott Memorial
Roger is a philosopher, public commentator and author of over 40 books. He has specialised in aesthetics with particular attention to music and architecture. He engages in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker and is well known as a powerful polemicist. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a fellow of the British Academy. ---- SUBCRIBE - https://goo.gl/XBS5H2 Westminster Abbey: Lectures and podcasts on issues of faith, ethics, politics and public policy-making, audio footage from the Abbey’s archive, and much more.
published: 19 Oct 2016 -
2015 Ross Horning Lecture "Was World War One Inevitable?"
Margaret MacMillan was this year's keynote speaker for the Creighton University Department of History Ross Horning Lecture. Margaret MacMillan is the Warden of St Antony’s College and a Professor of International History at the University of Oxford. Her books include Women of the Raj; Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, among others. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto, Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, University of Toronto and of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, and sits on the boards of the Mosaic Institute and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, and the editorial boards of International History and First World War Studies. In 2006 Professor MacMillan was invested as an Offic...
published: 16 Apr 2015 -
THE WRITER AND THE WORLD: VS NAIPAUL
One of the greatest living writers, Nobel Prize-winning VS Naipaul, in conversation with DLF director Ahsan Akbar about his literary work Fifty five years ago, A House for Mr Biswas placed Sir Vidia as one of the youngest fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. Described by TIME magazine as ‘a master of the modern novel,’ he produced literary masterpieces such as In a Free State, Guerrillas, An Area of Darkness, The Mimic Men, The Enigma of Arrival, A Bend in the River, Among the Believers and many other modern classics in both fiction and nonfiction. This is Sir Vidia’s first ever trip to Bangladesh and he comes as a guest of honour of Dhaka Lit Fest.
published: 27 Nov 2016 -
Richard Sennett - The Organic City
Lecture date: 1996-05-15 In 1977 Richard Sennett founded, and directed for a decade, the New York Institute of the Humanities at New York University. He then chaired a United Nations commission on urban development and design. More recently he helped create, and has chaired, the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics. A prolific contributor to newspapers and journals both in Britain and in the US, Sennett is the author of several books, including The Uses of Disorder: Personal identity and City Life (1970); The Fall of Public Man (1977); The Conscience of the Eye: The design and social life of cities (1991); and Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization (1994). Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and ...
published: 08 May 2015 -
Michael Longley - Creative Minds
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/english Creative Minds at Birmingham, the School of English, Drama, and American and Canadian Studies (EDACS) Writers and Artists Distinguished Speaker Series, features an exciting variety of renowned writers, poets and theatre leaders who give a public talk or reading, showcasing their latest works. Michael Longley is a central figure in contemporary Irish poetry. A forceful figure within the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, where he founded the literary programme, he is one of the 200 distinguished artists who are members of Aosdána. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the Wilfred Owen Award. He has won the Whitbread Prize, the T S Eliot Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Irish Times ...
published: 25 Mar 2014 -
Poetry East with Mimi Khalvati
From Saturday 25th October 2014. Mimi Khalvati - the unofficial patron of Poetry East - returns to launch her new collection The Weather Wheel, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Mimi has published eight collections of poetry including The Meanest Flower, which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, a Financial Times Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Child: New and Selected Poems published in 2011, and is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Her work has been translated into nine languages and she received a Cholmondeley Award in 2006. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her recent pamphlet Earthshine is a PBS Choice. Mimi is the founder of The Poetry School. ‘I am convinced that while we may tire of brasher voices, Mimi Khalvati...
published: 27 Oct 2014 -
Shena Mackay - Writers in Conversation
Writers in Conversation features some of today’s best fiction writers, poets, non-fiction writers and playwrights reading from their work and talking about their writing lifestyle - how characters take shape and where ideas come from. Led by creative writing lecturers at the University of Southampton, the event takes place in Nuffield Kitchen, helping to create an evening that is relaxed, engaging and intelligent, yet informal. Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh in 1944. Her writing career began when she won a prize for a poem written when she was fourteen. Two novellas, Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumberger and Toddler on the Run were published before she was twenty. Redhill Rococo won the 1987 Fawcett Prize, Dunedin won a 1994 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, The Orchard on Fire was shortl...
published: 26 Apr 2016 -
A.C Grayling - Do We Need God & Religion in the 21st Century?
A.C Grayling - Do We Need God & Religion in the 21st Century? SUBSCRIBE to "Question Everything" https://www.youtube.com/questioneverything Date/Place: 2013, London. SUBSCRIBE to "BookTV" Here: https://www.youtube.com/user/BookTV Anthony Clifford Grayling CBE (born 3 April 1949), usually known as A. C. Grayling, is a philosopher and author. He was born in the British expatriate community in Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) and spent most of his childhood there and in Malawi. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London. Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. He is also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. Grayling ...
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The Praise Singer Audiobook - Mary Renault
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- Updated: 06 Jul 2016
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Set in sixth-century Greece at the time of the Tyrants, the Persian Wars, and a great flowering of the arts, this novel takes the form of Simonides' memoirs, wr...
Set in sixth-century Greece at the time of the Tyrants, the Persian Wars, and a great flowering of the arts, this novel takes the form of Simonides' memoirs, written in retirement in Sicily. The author was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and she also wrote "The King Must Die".
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Set in sixth-century Greece at the time of the Tyrants, the Persian Wars, and a great flowering of the arts, this novel takes the form of Simonides' memoirs, written in retirement in Sicily. The author was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and she also wrote "The King Must Die".
- published: 06 Jul 2016
- views: 368
Frank Islam Athenaeum Symposia: Aminatta Forna
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- Updated: 03 May 2017
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Award–winning novelist, Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland and raised in Sierra Leone and Britain. Forna is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Lan...
Award–winning novelist, Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland and raised in Sierra Leone and Britain. Forna is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown. Focusing on her illuminating book, The Devil That Danced on the Water, a memoir of her dissident father and her life in Sierra Leone, Forna addresses politics in Sierra Leone, her writing life, and the relationship between the two.
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Award–winning novelist, Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland and raised in Sierra Leone and Britain. Forna is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown. Focusing on her illuminating book, The Devil That Danced on the Water, a memoir of her dissident father and her life in Sierra Leone, Forna addresses politics in Sierra Leone, her writing life, and the relationship between the two.
- published: 03 May 2017
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Westminster Abbey - The Sacred, the Profane and the Desecrated - Eric Symes Abbott Memorial
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- Duration: 50:37
- Updated: 19 Oct 2016
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Roger is a philosopher, public commentator and author of over 40 books. He has specialised in aesthetics with particular attention to music and architecture. He...
Roger is a philosopher, public commentator and author of over 40 books. He has specialised in aesthetics with particular attention to music and architecture. He engages in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker and is well known as a powerful polemicist. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a fellow of the British Academy.
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Roger is a philosopher, public commentator and author of over 40 books. He has specialised in aesthetics with particular attention to music and architecture. He engages in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker and is well known as a powerful polemicist. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a fellow of the British Academy.
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2015 Ross Horning Lecture "Was World War One Inevitable?"
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- Duration: 1:13:34
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Margaret MacMillan was this year's keynote speaker for the Creighton University Department of History Ross Horning Lecture.
Margaret MacMillan is the Warden of ...
Margaret MacMillan was this year's keynote speaker for the Creighton University Department of History Ross Horning Lecture.
Margaret MacMillan is the Warden of St Antony’s College and a Professor of International History at the University of Oxford.
Her books include Women of the Raj; Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, among others. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto, Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, University of Toronto and of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, and sits on the boards of the Mosaic Institute and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, and the editorial boards of International History and First World War Studies.
In 2006 Professor MacMillan was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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Margaret MacMillan was this year's keynote speaker for the Creighton University Department of History Ross Horning Lecture.
Margaret MacMillan is the Warden of St Antony’s College and a Professor of International History at the University of Oxford.
Her books include Women of the Raj; Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, among others. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto, Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, University of Toronto and of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, and sits on the boards of the Mosaic Institute and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, and the editorial boards of International History and First World War Studies.
In 2006 Professor MacMillan was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada.
- published: 16 Apr 2015
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THE WRITER AND THE WORLD: VS NAIPAUL
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- Updated: 27 Nov 2016
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One of the greatest living writers, Nobel Prize-winning VS Naipaul, in conversation with DLF director Ahsan Akbar about his literary work
Fifty five years ago, ...
One of the greatest living writers, Nobel Prize-winning VS Naipaul, in conversation with DLF director Ahsan Akbar about his literary work
Fifty five years ago, A House for Mr Biswas placed Sir Vidia as one of the youngest fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. Described by TIME magazine as ‘a master of the modern novel,’ he produced literary masterpieces such as In a Free State, Guerrillas, An Area of Darkness, The Mimic Men, The Enigma of Arrival, A Bend in the River, Among the Believers and many other modern classics in both fiction and nonfiction. This is Sir Vidia’s first ever trip to Bangladesh and he comes as a guest of honour of Dhaka Lit Fest.
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One of the greatest living writers, Nobel Prize-winning VS Naipaul, in conversation with DLF director Ahsan Akbar about his literary work
Fifty five years ago, A House for Mr Biswas placed Sir Vidia as one of the youngest fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. Described by TIME magazine as ‘a master of the modern novel,’ he produced literary masterpieces such as In a Free State, Guerrillas, An Area of Darkness, The Mimic Men, The Enigma of Arrival, A Bend in the River, Among the Believers and many other modern classics in both fiction and nonfiction. This is Sir Vidia’s first ever trip to Bangladesh and he comes as a guest of honour of Dhaka Lit Fest.
- published: 27 Nov 2016
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Richard Sennett - The Organic City
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- Duration: 1:14:02
- Updated: 08 May 2015
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Lecture date: 1996-05-15
In 1977 Richard Sennett founded, and directed for a decade, the New York Institute of the Humanities at New York University. He then ...
Lecture date: 1996-05-15
In 1977 Richard Sennett founded, and directed for a decade, the New York Institute of the Humanities at New York University. He then chaired a United Nations commission on urban development and design. More recently he helped create, and has chaired, the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics. A prolific contributor to newspapers and journals both in Britain and in the US, Sennett is the author of several books, including The Uses of Disorder: Personal identity and City Life (1970); The Fall of Public Man (1977); The Conscience of the Eye: The design and social life of cities (1991); and Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization (1994). Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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In 1977 Richard Sennett founded, and directed for a decade, the New York Institute of the Humanities at New York University. He then chaired a United Nations commission on urban development and design. More recently he helped create, and has chaired, the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics. A prolific contributor to newspapers and journals both in Britain and in the US, Sennett is the author of several books, including The Uses of Disorder: Personal identity and City Life (1970); The Fall of Public Man (1977); The Conscience of the Eye: The design and social life of cities (1991); and Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization (1994). Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
- published: 08 May 2015
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Michael Longley - Creative Minds
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- Duration: 59:04
- Updated: 25 Mar 2014
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Creative Minds at Birmingham, the School of English, Drama, and American and Canadian Studies (EDACS) Writers and Artists Di...
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Creative Minds at Birmingham, the School of English, Drama, and American and Canadian Studies (EDACS) Writers and Artists Distinguished Speaker Series, features an exciting variety of renowned writers, poets and theatre leaders who give a public talk or reading, showcasing their latest works.
Michael Longley is a central figure in contemporary Irish poetry. A forceful figure within the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, where he founded the literary programme, he is one of the 200 distinguished artists who are members of Aosdána. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the Wilfred Owen Award. He has won the Whitbread Prize, the T S Eliot Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry and the Librex Montale Prize. He was made a C.B.E. in the Queen's Birthday honours 2010.
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Creative Minds at Birmingham, the School of English, Drama, and American and Canadian Studies (EDACS) Writers and Artists Distinguished Speaker Series, features an exciting variety of renowned writers, poets and theatre leaders who give a public talk or reading, showcasing their latest works.
Michael Longley is a central figure in contemporary Irish poetry. A forceful figure within the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, where he founded the literary programme, he is one of the 200 distinguished artists who are members of Aosdána. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the Wilfred Owen Award. He has won the Whitbread Prize, the T S Eliot Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry and the Librex Montale Prize. He was made a C.B.E. in the Queen's Birthday honours 2010.
- published: 25 Mar 2014
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Poetry East with Mimi Khalvati
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From Saturday 25th October 2014.
Mimi Khalvati - the unofficial patron of Poetry East - returns to launch her new collection The Weather Wheel, a Poetry Book S...
From Saturday 25th October 2014.
Mimi Khalvati - the unofficial patron of Poetry East - returns to launch her new collection The Weather Wheel, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Mimi has published eight collections of poetry including The Meanest Flower, which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, a Financial Times Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Child: New and Selected Poems published in 2011, and is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Her work has been translated into nine languages and she received a Cholmondeley Award in 2006. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her recent pamphlet Earthshine is a PBS Choice. Mimi is the founder of The Poetry School.
‘I am convinced that while we may tire of brasher voices, Mimi Khalvati's work will endure.’ Moniza Alvi, Poetry Wales
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From Saturday 25th October 2014.
Mimi Khalvati - the unofficial patron of Poetry East - returns to launch her new collection The Weather Wheel, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Mimi has published eight collections of poetry including The Meanest Flower, which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, a Financial Times Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Child: New and Selected Poems published in 2011, and is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Her work has been translated into nine languages and she received a Cholmondeley Award in 2006. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her recent pamphlet Earthshine is a PBS Choice. Mimi is the founder of The Poetry School.
‘I am convinced that while we may tire of brasher voices, Mimi Khalvati's work will endure.’ Moniza Alvi, Poetry Wales
- published: 27 Oct 2014
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Shena Mackay - Writers in Conversation
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- Updated: 26 Apr 2016
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Writers in Conversation features some of today’s best fiction writers, poets, non-fiction writers and playwrights reading from their work and talking about thei...
Writers in Conversation features some of today’s best fiction writers, poets, non-fiction writers and playwrights reading from their work and talking about their writing lifestyle - how characters take shape and where ideas come from. Led by creative writing lecturers at the University of Southampton, the event takes place in Nuffield Kitchen, helping to create an evening that is relaxed, engaging and intelligent, yet informal.
Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh in 1944. Her writing career began when she won a prize for a poem written when she was fourteen. Two novellas, Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumberger and Toddler on the Run were published before she was twenty. Redhill Rococo won the 1987 Fawcett Prize, Dunedin won a 1994 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, The Orchard on Fire was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize and, in 2003 Heligoland was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and Whitbread Novel Award. Her latest book, Dancing on the Outskirts, Selected Stories (Virago) was published in November 2015. She has three daughters, Sarah Clark, a teacher, Rebecca Smith, a writer, and Cecily Brown, a painter, and five grandchildren. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Southampton.
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Writers in Conversation features some of today’s best fiction writers, poets, non-fiction writers and playwrights reading from their work and talking about their writing lifestyle - how characters take shape and where ideas come from. Led by creative writing lecturers at the University of Southampton, the event takes place in Nuffield Kitchen, helping to create an evening that is relaxed, engaging and intelligent, yet informal.
Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh in 1944. Her writing career began when she won a prize for a poem written when she was fourteen. Two novellas, Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumberger and Toddler on the Run were published before she was twenty. Redhill Rococo won the 1987 Fawcett Prize, Dunedin won a 1994 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, The Orchard on Fire was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize and, in 2003 Heligoland was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and Whitbread Novel Award. Her latest book, Dancing on the Outskirts, Selected Stories (Virago) was published in November 2015. She has three daughters, Sarah Clark, a teacher, Rebecca Smith, a writer, and Cecily Brown, a painter, and five grandchildren. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Southampton.
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A.C Grayling - Do We Need God & Religion in the 21st Century?
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- Duration: 37:23
- Updated: 21 Mar 2017
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A.C Grayling - Do We Need God & Religion in the 21st Century?
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Anthony Clifford Grayling CBE (born 3 April 1949), usually known as A. C. Grayling, is a philosopher and author. He was born in the British expatriate community in Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) and spent most of his childhood there and in Malawi. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London. Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. He is also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.
Grayling is the author of about 30 books on philosophy, biography, history of ideas, human rights and ethics, including The Refutation of Scepticism (1985), The Future of Moral Values (1997), Wittgenstein (1992), What Is Good? (2000), The Meaning of Things (2001), The Good Book (2011), The God Argument (2013), and The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind (2016). He was a Trustee of the London Library and a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. For a number of years he was a columnist on The Guardian newspaper and presented the BBC World Service series ‘Exchanges At the Frontier on science and society. He has lectured in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Singapore and Spain. In 2013 he was awarded the Forkosch Literary Prize, and in 2015 he received the Bertrand Russell Award.
He was a director and contributor at Prospect Magazine from its foundation until 2016. He is a Vice President of the British Humanist Association and Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society and Patron of the Defence Humanists.[14] His main academic interests lie in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophical logic and he has published works in these subjects. His political affiliations lie on the centre-left, and he has defended human rights and politically liberal values in print and by activism. He is associated in Britain with the new atheism movement and has been described as the Fifth Horseman of New Atheism. He frequently appears in British media discussing philosophy and public affairs.
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Anthony Clifford Grayling CBE (born 3 April 1949), usually known as A. C. Grayling, is a philosopher and author. He was born in the British expatriate community in Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) and spent most of his childhood there and in Malawi. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London. Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. He is also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.
Grayling is the author of about 30 books on philosophy, biography, history of ideas, human rights and ethics, including The Refutation of Scepticism (1985), The Future of Moral Values (1997), Wittgenstein (1992), What Is Good? (2000), The Meaning of Things (2001), The Good Book (2011), The God Argument (2013), and The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind (2016). He was a Trustee of the London Library and a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. For a number of years he was a columnist on The Guardian newspaper and presented the BBC World Service series ‘Exchanges At the Frontier on science and society. He has lectured in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Singapore and Spain. In 2013 he was awarded the Forkosch Literary Prize, and in 2015 he received the Bertrand Russell Award.
He was a director and contributor at Prospect Magazine from its foundation until 2016. He is a Vice President of the British Humanist Association and Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society and Patron of the Defence Humanists.[14] His main academic interests lie in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophical logic and he has published works in these subjects. His political affiliations lie on the centre-left, and he has defended human rights and politically liberal values in print and by activism. He is associated in Britain with the new atheism movement and has been described as the Fifth Horseman of New Atheism. He frequently appears in British media discussing philosophy and public affairs.
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Science Stories - Unexpected
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Perceptions of Madness: understanding mental illness through art, literature and drama
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A Literate, Literary, and Illuminating Account of the Great War (2000)
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The Gene's Eye View of Creation: The Selfish Cooperator
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Behaving badly
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Richard Sennett: The Architecture of Cooperation
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THE WRITER AND THE WORLD: VS NAIPAUL
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Theology and the tragic: A debate revisited. A lecture by the Rt Revd Rowan Williams
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Writers On Writing | Richard Dawkins
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Independence of the Seas FULLY GUIDED SHIP TOUR 2016 (4K Ultra HD)
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England & Wales Travel Skills
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Best of Morocco Documentary 2016
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Edinburgh
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RSA ANIMATE: Crises of Capitalism
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Brighton, England: Royal Pavilion and Pier
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Drowned landscapes - Caroline Wickham-Jones | The Royal Society
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The Royal Butler's Etiquette Guide Online Series
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Copenhagen
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Science Stories - Unexpected
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Perceptions of Madness: understanding mental illness through art, literature and drama
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A Literate, Literary, and Illuminating Account of the Great War (2000)
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The Gene's Eye View of Creation: The Selfish Cooperator
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Richard Sennett: The Architecture of Cooperation
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Family Outraged As Texas Teacher Names Student 'Most Likely To Become A Terrorist'
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A middle school principal in Texas plans to launch an investigation after a 7th-grade student was named “most likely to become a terrorist” in a mock award ceremony, The Huffington Post reported Friday. “I was shocked ... “It was not a joke,” Lizeth was quoted as saying ... “Get fired, at least, or something,” Ena Hernandez said.“It doesn’t look good at all, especially coming from a teacher, a grown-up woman,” Hernandez said....
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Former Speaker Boehner Calls Trump 'A Complete Disaster'
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Former US House Speaker John Boehner has a strong message for President Donald Trump about his tenure as president. Aside from international affairs, Trump’s time in office thus far as been a ‘complete disaster,’ The Associated Press reported Friday ... "Everything else he's done (in office) has been a complete disaster ... The Senate has struggled to produce legislation that all in the GOP can back ... I smoke cigarettes. I golf....
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Putin Says U.S. Has Political Schizophrenia – What if He’s Right?
Edit WorldNews.com 26 May 2017
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling ... “The United States has been developing political schizophrenia.” ... Shorter memories, delusional thoughts of power and incoherent decisions and policies are the norm.Ancient Greeks Guarded Against a “Brave New World” In “A Brave New World,“ Aldous Huxley wrote about a dystopian society based on a caste system that withheld blood flow and oxygen from embryos....
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Iraq Urges Citizens To Flee Islamic State Held Portions of Mosul
Edit WorldNews.com 26 May 2017
The Iraqi air force dropped leaflets on Friday that called for residents to leave the Old City center of Mosul that's currently controlled by the Islamic State, according to Reuters. They announced in a military statement that the move was done to show the decisive offensive taking place to push out the militants from their remaining enclave of the northern Iraqi city ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
American Showa, Royal Z Lanes partner for American Cancer Society
Edit Wilmington News Journal 26 May 2017
Royal Z Lanes, located in Wilmington graciously recently donated all 18 bowling lanes at a discounted rate for the American Showa (ASI) Bowling Tournament. The event was created in an effort to raise funds for the American Cancer Society, and 59 associates and dependents participated, raising $743 to date. All proceeds from the event were donated to the American Cancer Society....
Former PM of Iceland forms new progressive society
Edit Iceland Monitor 26 May 2017
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, former PM and former leader of the Progressive Party who was implicated in the Panama Papers last year, has announced the founding of a new society called Framfarafélagið (The Progressive Society). He says he's not creating a new poltical party but that the society will probably develop with time ... ....
SA Mint should reveiw Mandela coin plans after Royal Mint blazes new platinum coin trail
Edit Mining Weekly 26 May 2017
The decision of the Royal Mint, in the UK, to launch its first-ever platinum bullion products has rekindled hopes that the South African Mint will wipe the dust off its plans for a Mandela coin in platinum and mimic some of its gold coin success. In what is potentially a beneficial measure to boost platinum demand, the 1 000-year-old Royal Mint last ......
Royal Columns rock climbing area reopened
Edit The Spokesman-Review 26 May 2017
CLIMBING -- The Royal Columns climbing area on the Oak Creek Wildlife Area in Yakima County has been reopened since being closed in late April after a basalt column collapsed, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced today ... Royal Columns open to rock climbing."....
Pro-Beijing Hong Kong lawmaker Junius Ho loses re-election bid for Law Society governing council
Edit South China Morning Post 26 May 2017
A pro-Beijing legislator in Hong Kong and former president of the city’s Law Society has lost his bid to retain his membership on the body’s governing council. Junius Ho Kwan-yiu came last out of eight candidates vying for five seats on the council. Ho, 54, vowed to continue contributing to society “through different positions” while a vocal opponent called the result “absolutely adorable” ... ....
Starting lineups, Game 46: Cleveland Indians vs. Kansas City Royals
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>. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Indians and Royals will begin a three-game series at Progressive Field on Friday night. ... Lineups. Indians. 1. 2B Jason Kipnis. 2 ... Royals ... ....
UP minister’s shocker on Greater Noida gang rape: ‘No government can ensure a crime-free society’
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Suresh Kumar Khanna, a minister in Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's Cabinet, on Thursday said that police cannot be deployed everywhere and no government can ensure a crime-free society, remarks that could trigger a political controversy....
University professor becomes vice president of British Society of Haematology
Edit Public Technologies 26 May 2017
Professor Cheng Hock-Toh from the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health has recently been elected as the vice president for the British Society of Haematology. Professor Toh has been a member of the British Society of Haematology for 25 years and after a vote in January, he was elected as the vice president....
How Diana tricked the paparazzi with her HANDBAGS: Late royal would use her clutches as 'cleavage bags' to protect her modesty as she climbed out of cars
Edit This is Money 26 May 2017
Anya Hindmarch who was one of the late royal's go-to designers for accessories revealed the princess used to call them her 'cleavage bags' as she'd used them to preserve her modesty as she stooped over while exiting a car ... Diana was by no means the first royal to harness the power of the humble handbag....
SUNCOAST HERPETOLOGICAL SOCIETY MEETING
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The Suncoast Herpetological Society is a non-profit, educational, and recreational club for people interested in reptiles and amphibians with an emphasis on responsible husbandry & captive breeding....
Cleveland Indians vs. Kansas City Royals: Live updates and chat, Game 46
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>. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cleveland Indians take on the Kansas City Royals on Friday in Game 46 of the MLB season at Progressive Field ... Game 46. Indians (24-21) vs. Royals (22-24) ... ....
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