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The Beginnings of Protestantism in Asia
Early Protestant empires in Asia – in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Taiwan and elsewhere – brought missionaries with them. Like their Catholic predece…
3 years, 9 months ago
Averting the Insect Apocalypse
Recent studies from around the world show insects are disappearing fast. If this continues, this will have profound consequences for mankind and for …
3 years, 9 months ago
Oxford’s Savilian Professors of Geometry: 400 Years On
England’s earliest chair of mathematics was that of Gresham College, founded in 1597, but who came next?
The earliest University-based mathematics pr…
3 years, 10 months ago
What Can We Learn From Fakes?
It seems that fakes are everywhere – very few domains of social life are exempt from concerns about fakes and a general ‘crisis of authenticity’. Whi…
3 years, 10 months ago
Supply Chains in the Wellbeing Economy
In this lecture we are going to look at how the supply chains in a wellbeing economy bring together local production of food and stewardship of natur…
3 years, 10 months ago
People and Purpose: Putting Positive Impact at The Heart of Economic Growth
As we build on the economic recovery from COVID-19, we need to put our people and our purpose at the heart of financial and professional services to …
3 years, 10 months ago
Soviet Music in World War II
The tribulations of WWII (the “Great Patriotic War”) prompted a temporary liberalisation within Soviet culture. Images of horror and grief, formerly …
3 years, 10 months ago
The Surprising Uses of Conic Sections
Conic sections – the curves made by slicing through cones at various angles – were studied by the ancient Greeks, but because of their useful propert…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Global Financial Crisis and COVID... What Next?
‘Hyper-globalisation’ and the power of finance culminated in the global financial crisis of 2008 that was potentially as severe as the Great Depressi…
3 years, 10 months ago
Integral Transforms
Integral transforms are the most rarefied of analyses – only used by a subset of engineers and computer scientists; laboured over by many an undergra…
3 years, 10 months ago