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How to Measure and Manage Risk
Risk is one of the most powerful and dangerous concepts in finance – powerful because it allows individuals and companies to earn huge returns, but d…
4 years, 2 months ago
Magnetic Universe
Magnetic fields have mysterious effects that can be dramatically counterintuitive, and they are ubiquitous throughout the Universe and can have influ…
4 years, 2 months ago
Robots in Science Fiction
In the late nineteenth century, highly contentious debates about prostitution were central to broader questions about women’s status within society, …
4 years, 2 months ago
Sex Work
In the late nineteenth century, highly contentious debates about prostitution were central to broader questions about women’s status within society, …
4 years, 2 months ago
The Evolution of Cancer Therapy
Professor Eleanor Stride will discuss the history and development of cancer therapy from its origins in Ancient Egypt - when surgery was the only opt…
4 years, 2 months ago
Exploring the Deep Sea
The Deep Sea is Earth’s last great frontier. After almost 150 years of exploration and research we understand it is deep, dark and definitely differe…
4 years, 2 months ago
Prokofiev The Soviet Artist
This lecture will follow the tortuous path of Prokofiev’s transformation into a Soviet artist. Prokofiev had pursued his career abroad and returned t…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Oil Shock and Neoliberalism
The oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 led to international disruption and a crisis in the post-war order. Domestically, weaker productivity growth, the squ…
4 years, 2 months ago
Love and Music
Tristan & Isolde, Romeo & Juliet, Pelléas & Mélisande are three pairs of lovers who have fired composers’ imaginations. Films like Love S…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Maths of Proportion in Art, Design and Nature
From the Ancient Greeks onwards, proportion and mathematics has been central to our ideas of form and beauty.
This lecture looks at the famous golden…
4 years, 2 months ago