2009/2010

James MacMillan - The Musical Search for the Sacred in Modernity

James MacMillan is a composer and conductor, whose music is played all over the world. His work is, in many instances, shaped by his Catholic faith, which has also become the basis for lectures and articles he delivers on the interface between theology and culture.
Seminar held on 24 February 2010

James MacMillan - The Musical Search for the Sacred in Modernity

James MacMillan is a composer and conductor, whose music is played all over the world. His work is, in many instances, shaped by his Catholic faith, which has also become the basis for lectures and articles he delivers on the interface between theology and culture.
Seminar held on 24 February 2010

Dr. Manuel Corpas - Prenatal Diagnosis Pre-empts Eugenics

Dr. Manuel Corpas is currently development lead of a database of human genetic variation and took a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics at the University of Manchester. He speaks in a purely personal capacity.
Seminar held on 9 December 2009.

Michael Woolgar - Whatever Happened to Honour? Reflections on Ethics in Business With Some References to Government

Michael Woolgar has an economics, project development and finance background with experience as an economist with several multi-national oil companies, banks, and international organisations.
Seminar held on 11 November 2009

Dr. Dermot Grenham - Greasing Palms or Oiling Wheels: The Impact of Corruption on Developing Countries

Dr. Dermot Grenham holds a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Oxford and a specialist master’s degree in population and development from the London School of Economics. He is a part-time tutorial fellow at the L.S.E.’s Development Studies Institute and a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.
Seminar held on 26 January 2010

Alexander Boot - Egotism and Modernity in Leo Tolstoy

This seminar marks the British launch of Alexander Boot's book, God and Man According to Tolstoy (Basingstoke, 2009), to which reference is made in the text.
Seminar held on 23 September 2009

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