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Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...research concerning the interpretation of Dutch painting’, trans. in Franits, W. (ed.) Looking at Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art: Realism Reconsidered, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 9–14. Schama, S. (1987) ‘Dutch landscapes: culture as foreground’ in Sutton, P. (ed.) Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Painting, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts,...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Interviews - Writing For Radio
History & The Arts

Interviews - Writing For Radio

...research and it was like that. But, but you know that the Radio 4 audience are informed, they’re curious, they’re, they’re interested, and I suppose my job as the commissioning editor is to try and feed that appetite really. And one of the first things you think about when, when an idea crosses my desk is what’s in it for the audience? What’s going to draw them...
Intermediate German: The world of work
Languages

Intermediate German: The world of work

...research assistant das Anzeigenblatt (⸚er) advertising paper freiberuflich freelance die Nachhilfe extra tuition...Intermediate German: The world of work: 1.5 Können Sie Ihre Arbeit beschreiben? - Können Sie sich vorstellen und ein bisschen über Ihre Arbeit oder freiwillige Tätigkeit sprechen? Übung 6 Timing: 10 Minuten Sie hören jetzt Frauke Burmeister, die sich...
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...research fellow at Deakin University in Australia and an expert on the philosophy of racism. In this video Dr Ngo discusses how different definitions of racism impact how racism is identified and addressed. Activity 7 Timing: Spend about twenty minutes on this activity Watch the following video. AZITA CHELLAPPOO: Investigating philosophy. Identifying and addressing...
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...research opened up devoted to modelling mental processes in computational terms. Again, on this view it is not too difficult to see how brain tissue could support a mind; it would simply need to be organised in such a way as to implement the relevant computational processes. This approach may not be the right one (there are rivals to it) and many problems remain – in...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...research and training that affects the provision of services; the laws, policies and programmes under which services are provided. To call all of this a ‘system’ is not to imply that it has well-defined, consensual goals and co-ordinated programmes for achieving them. The institutions included in the blindness system tend, in fact, to behave in a fragmented and...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...research perspective… directed towards mnemonic processes unfolding across and beyond cultures”, it draws on James Clifford’s concept of “traveling cultures” to describe how memory processes are always in flux and transgress boundaries of time and space. For the purpose of this article, I propose the concept of “migrating literature.” In Richard’s tales,...
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...research, and included a foreword by a respected anthropologist, Margaret Murray. Murray was well known for the now-discredited theory presented in The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921) that before the arrival of the Romans, Europe’s religion was focused on a fertility Goddess, which men and women worshipped together in magical rituals. Witchcraft Today was a success,...